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European Council expresses solidarity to Greece and Cyprus as tension rises in Eastern Mediterranean
The European Council’s president German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz reiterated the European Union’s support of Greece and Cyprus as Turkey continues to raise tension in the …
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Licensing process for renewable energy projects in Greece to be speeded up
Greece is expected to introduce new rules that will significantly reduce the time taken to license renewable-energy generation projects from the current average of seven years to just two years. …
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Greece confirmed 217 new COVID-19 cases, with restrictions in Mykonos and Halkidiki
Greece confirmed 217 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday lifting the total number of recorded infections in the country to 7,684. Twenty-eight people are currently in ICUs. Greece also registered three …
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EU support for Greece as PM Mitsotakis tells CNN that Turkey’s challenges will not remain unanswered
European support has been extended to Greece and Cyprus amid provocations by Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Council …
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University of Sydney museum needs your help to identify images of a vanished Greece
The help of our readers is being sought by the University of Sydney to identify the locations of hundreds of photographs taken in Greece at the turn of the last …
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Greek sale of 101 armoured troop carriers to Egypt which it had received from Germany
Germany’s leading business daily, Handelsblatt, reports that Greece has sold 101 Soviet-made BMP-1 armoured infantry combat vehicles to Egypt, which the paper says Berlin is finding hard to explain. In …
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu about Eastern Mediterranean
The United States recognises an “urgent need to reduce tensions” in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu about Turkey’s …
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217 new COVID-19 cases as Greece’s PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls on people to “share memories, not the virus”
Greece confirmed 217 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and two deaths of which 15 were identified at entry points to Greece. There were a total of 7,075 cases recorded in …
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254 new coronavirus cases in Greece, 2 deaths
The Greek authorities confirmed 254 new cases of coronavirus on Friday and two deaths. Twenty incidents were located during checks at the country’s entrance gates, 98 in the Attica region, …
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10 things to know about 15 August
1. The Dormition. The Dekapentavgoustos on the Greek Orthodox calendar celebrates the Feast of Dormition of the Theotokos which marks the falling asleep or “kimisis” of the Virgin Mary. The …