The European Union is preparing to grant Ukrainians who flee the war the right to stay and work in the 27-nation bloc for up to three years, senior EU and French officials said, thanking volunteers at the borders for helping those who arrive.
Greece has suspended issuance and renewal of residence permits to wealthy Russians investing in Greece “until further notice,” the migration ministry said on Monday.
Saturday marked the second anniversary of the first case of the coronavirus in Greece and people have been longing for a return to normalcy.
A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the island of Crete on Monday morning, according to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens.
French right-wing presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse said in an interview with Kathimerini that she is against Turkey’s European Union accession and that, if elected, she would also stop the pre-accession financial assistance provided to Ankara.
The US has thanked Greece for its “steadfast support” over Ukraine, while expressing his condolences over the ethnic Greeks killed during Russian air strikes in Mariupol Saturday.
A bus carrying 36 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Athens on Monday morning.
Greece’s biggest gaming firm OPAP on Monday halted betting on Russian sport events in solidarity with Ukraine where a Russian invasion continued for a fifth day.
Did Max Merten, the head of Thessaloniki’s military administration during the German occupation in World War II, have excellent relations with ambitious Greeks or not?
Athens is still trying to make sense of the new political and economic landscape created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.