Ryanair announced further expansion in Greece with three new summer bases in Corfu (two aircraft), Chania (one aircraft) & Rhodes (one aircraft), offering 107 routes in total, including 46 new routes to help boost air traffic and the tourism industry as vaccination programmes continue and Europe re-opens in time for the Summer holiday season. Ryanair’s [...]
Starting Monday, April 5, Greece resumes flights to and from its three neighboring countries: Turkey, Albania and North Macedonia. As the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority announced, flights from Albania and North Macedonia will be allowed to land in any Greek airport (not just at “Eleftherios Venizelos” Athens International Airport as it is currently the case). [...]
On the occasion of the celebration of the World Forest Day by the U.N. on March 21st 2021, the UNAI Hub SDG 7 (NKUA-KEPA), within the framework of the "75UN-75 Trees UNAI SDG7" initiative, announced the agreement for the preservation of historical olive trees at the region where the new airport of Heraklion is being [...]
Waiting for the March 25/26 Summit by Antonis D. Papagiannidis The March 25/26 European Council has been ever since the December 10-11 Summit a matter of high expectations on part Greek public opinion as well as - in a more focused way - on part of the Greek political class. The reason for such centrality [...]
The Ministers of Internal Affairs and Migration of the five EU Mediterranean countries met in Athens for the first MED 5 Conference. Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Malta agreed to common positions and proposals regarding the European Migration and Asylum Pact, currently under negotiation. They all agreed that the proposed legal arrangements do not ensure [...]
Living with the 3rd wave of Covid-19 in Greece: “the path is traced by walking and meeting” by Antonis D. Papagiannidis So, after all the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has come crashing down on Greece, too. In fact this time around the surge is centered around the wider region of Athens, home to [...]
Turkey has protested a recent agreement reached between Israel, Greece and Cyprus advancing plans to build a 2,000-megawatt undersea electricity cable (the so-called EuroAsia Interconnector) connecting the three, the Anadolu Agency reported Monday. Turkey formally protested against the agreement, arguing that the route of the planned cable, expected to be funded by the EU, transgressed [...]
It was the fist interview of the British Prime Minister with a European newspaper since he took office about two year ago. Boris Johnson talked exclusively to the Greek newspaper Ta Nea. He was asked about his counterpart’s, Kyriakos Mitsotakis’, offer to return the Parthenon marbles in Athens in exchange for lending other Greek artefacts [...]
by Dika Agapitidou, Director, JLL – Athens Economics ltd* It is common to see savings surge and consumption decline in times of acute uncertainty; therefore, it comes as no surprise that the pandemic outbreak, swiftly followed by restrictions on circulation and market activity, undermined the performance of both retail and food & beverage. In turn, [...]
The Greek Minister of Tourism, Harry Theoharis, has presented the plan to safely reopen tourism in mid May. In a press conference given in the framework of the international Tourism Exhibition ITB Berlin, H. Theoharis said that May 14 is set as the date for the official start of the 2021 tourist season in Greece. [...]
