Tag: Greece

• Thursday, December 1st 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Greece to reinstate unvaccinated healthcare staff

  

  Greek healthcare workers sidelined in September 2021 for refusing to take a vaccine against COVID-19 are to be allowed back at their jobs effective Jan. 1, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2022 - 20:10 UTC

  Greece pays up IMF financial bailouts

  

  Greece has paid up its debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after three assistance programs amounting to US$ 35 billion between 2010 and 2015, it was reported Tuesday.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2021 - 09:28 UTC

  France and Greece mandate all healthcare workers be vaccinated

  

  The Governments of France and Greece Monday decreed mandatory anti-covid-19 vaccination for all health care workers, while a green pass will be required for everyday life.

• Monday, May 24th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Belarus forces commercial flight to land so that dissident can be arrested

  

  The Government of Belarus Sunday forced a Ryanair Boeing 737 en route from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lituania which was flying over their territory to land and make the arrest of 26-year-old dissident journalist Roman Protasevich possible.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Greek 37 day old baby dies from Covid-19

  

  Greece on Monday mourned a 37-day-old baby, the youngest among the country's nearly 6,800 COVID-19 victims. “Sadly today we had the pandemic's youngest victim in our country, an infant that spent 17 of its 37 days fighting the coronavirus,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Post lockdown Mediterranean cruise vessel docks in Greece with coronavirus cases

  

  The first cruise ship to sail to Greece since the coronavirus lockdown docked at the port of Piraeus early on Tuesday after a dozen crew members were reported positive for the virus, state news agency ANA said.

• Friday, August 14th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  France supports Greece in escalating row in east Mediterranean over gas reserves

  

  France on Thursday prepared to beef up its military presence in the Mediterranean as tensions rose, prompting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to warn of a “heavy price” if a Turkish ship exploring for gas in disputed waters is attacked.

• Thursday, April 27th 2017 - 10:54 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez invited to give a conference at Oxford University

  

  Ex president Cristina Fernandez and her daughter Florencia Kirchner, both indicted in several alleged corruption cases have been allowed to travel to Europe in May, where the Argentine leader has been invited to a round of conferences and discussions including one from the Oxford Union at Oxford University.

• Thursday, November 19th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  Turkish fans booed during minute of silence for Paris victims

  

  Turkish fans booed during the minute's silence for the victims of the Paris attacks before their national team drew 0-0 with Greece in a friendly international soccer game on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2015 - 08:43 UTC

  Tsipras takes office with a daunting agenda; 45% abstained on Sunday

  

  Alexis Tsipras took the oath of office for a second term as Greek prime minister, promising to revive the crippled economy while demanding debt relief from creditors as his “first big battle” following an unexpectedly clear election victory.