Kos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, has become a major transit point for refugees fleeing through Turkey in an attempt to reach Europe, and Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported grom the island.
Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis attributed responsibilities to Alexis Tsipras for the continuation of the crisis, in an interview with television network Russia Today.
"When three-year-old children wash up dead, what is washed up is European culture. We must collectively assume the responsibility as a European family and not think that because [the problem] is in our neighbourhood, it should be solved by those that have it inside their back yard," former Greek premier and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said in an interview with Euronews on Tuesday.
The caretaker government achieved a small miracle in its handling of migration flows, caretaker Interior Minister Antonis Manitakis commented on Tuesday. He noted that in just 15 days, the caretaker government had managed to register and safely channel an uncontrolled flow of some 29,000 arriving refugees in an atmosphere of humanity and solidarity, without elements of racism and xenophobia.
A member of the Mouzenidis Travel Group, Ellinair recorded successful results for the summer season with the overall occupancy of domestic routes exceeding 72 percent in just three months of operation, the company’s Commercial Manager Stavros Daliakas said during a special presentation last week in Thessaloniki, of the group’s new travel deals.
Greece’s basketball team was eliminated by Spain from the 2015 Eurobasket tournament after a last-second jump-shot from half-court crashed off the backboard.
During a press conference in Athens, Ryanair’s chief commercial officer Mr. David O’Brien warned about upcoming hikes at Greece’s regional airports after the completion of the privatization process and criticized the government’s attitude towards tourism, which contributes some 20 percent to the country’s GDP.
The number of persons employed increased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU28 in the second quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter, according to national accounts estimates published by Eurostat, the EU statistical body.
AHEPA's Supreme President John W. Galanis addressed Capitol Hill, to examine critical issues to the Greek-American community and the organization's public policy concerns.
The Republic of Cyprus is vying to lure Chinese investors to its first science and technology park, located in Pentakomo.
Greece's total credit concerning its banking mechanism increased by 1.1% in July, in comparison to the same time period last year.
Washington, D.C.'s American Hellenic Institute is holding its 12th Annual Golf Classic, on Monday, October 19th.
Rufus Wainwright, distinguished singer and songwriter, will present the Symphonic Visual Concert Prima Donna on Tuesday at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus within the framework of the Hellenic Festival.
Representing Greece's caretaker government at the EU General Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, Alternate Foreign Affairs Minister Spiros Flogaitis emphasised the "huge dimensions" and urgent nature of the refugee and migrant crisis being played out on the country's maritime borders.