The most beautiful beaches in Greece
Leading world travel magazine Conde Nast Traveller presents the 8 most beautiful beaches in Greece.
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Leading world travel magazine Conde Nast Traveller presents the 8 most beautiful beaches in Greece.
Greek Police had a series of meetings on Tuesday following terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Starting from April 28, 2016 aircraft of Ural Airlines will make flights from Ekaterinburg to Heraklion, Crete.
Defence Minister and Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos on Wednesday said in statements to ANT1 TV that terrorism is an important issue that everyone must be concerned with and estimated that a lot of terrorists have entered Balkans.
Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas on Tuesday in an interview with Alpha TV expressed fears that children may die at Idomeni.
Greece does not need to worry. Greece is not a target for historical reasons, but we must be on alert because many people cross the country and we also cooperate with other governments," Alternate Minister for Civil Protection Nikos Toskas said in an interview with SKAI TV late on Tuesday after the terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Aegean Airlines announced on Tuesday that no flight of the company will be operated to and from Brussels since the airport of the city will remain closed after the terrorist attacks.
Ionian Islands Regional Authority plans to spend around 200,000 euros to build the necessary infrastructure in ports and to approve licensing of four new water airports in Cephalonia, Ithaka, Lefkada and Meganisi, after approving licenses for Corfu and Paxi islands.
The US Department of Homeland Security has given Greece and four other EU countries until the end of the month to act and meet new strict criteria or risk losing visa-free travel rights, Greek daily Kathimerini reported on Monday.
The visa exemption program allows citizens of 38 countries access to the United States for tourism or business without a visa.
The US Department of Homeland Security after an increase in the number of forged and stolen passports, which it says could facilitate the movement of terrorists. The number of illicit documents has doubled in the past six years.
France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Greece were initially given a February 1 deadline to fix “crucial loopholes” or lose access to the U.S. visa waiver program. The deadline was then extended to the end of March.
As Kathimerini reports, as part of the new criteria, Athens must improve the security levels of Greek ID cards and introduce special passport validation mechanisms at entry points to Greece to document and register all the migrants and refugees entering the country.
In addition, countries participating in the visa exemption program are required by this coming fall, to cross check criminal records of non-citizen residents using Interpol databases.
The US launched changes to the visa waiver program entry requirements in January, denying visa-free entry into the country for people with dual citizenship of Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria or those who travelled to any of these countries in the past five years, even if they held passports from one of the 38 countries in the US visa exemption program.
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The crisis in Greece was not triggered by the austerity memorandums but an unjustifiably expansive fiscal policy, where state spending far outstripped state revenues, Bank of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras said on Monday at an event organised by the 'Citizens' Movement'.
"We express Greece's solidarity with the Belgian people. Fear, religious hatred and racism should not defeat Europe," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras posted on Twitter following the attacks in Brussels earlier on Tuesday.
The deal between the EU and Turkey on returning migrants who cross the Aegean sea to Greece has come into effect. Any refugees arriving in Greece can now expect to be sent back to Turkey if they do not apply for asylum or if their claim is rejected.
Two explosions were heard at Brussels airport early on Tuesday morning and Belgian media said several people were injured. Belgian media note that at least 11 persons have been killed. Images of broken windows and several injured people have been released.