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Month: May 2017

Chania MP raises building workers insurance contributions reform question with minister

18th May 2017 Yannis X 0

A parliamentary written  question of significant local interest was tabled by Chania MP Antonis Balomenakis, and co-signed by another 47 government MPs, to ask the Employment […]

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Rain in May causes local flooding, minor problems reported

18th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Winter is not over yet. As torrential rain  and noticeably lower temperatures hit Chania and most of Crete, there are several reports of localised flooding […]

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General strike against new austerity ends in minor scuffles in Athens

18th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Xinua — Greece was hit on Wednesday by a new 24-hour general strike against the fresh round of austerity measures that the government has tabled […]

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Greek PM ‘optimistic’ about Monday’s Eurogroup, sees summer bond issue

18th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Reuters — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday he was optimistic of a positive outcome when euro zone finance ministers meet in Brussels […]

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Greek debt relief up to ministers after euro zone, IMF officials fail to break deadlock

17th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Reuters — Euro zone lenders and the International Monetary Fund remain far apart on how to provide debt relief for Greece, but officials hope euro […]

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EU warns Turkey after it violates Greek airspace 141 times in one day

16th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Euractiv — According to Greek press reports, 20 Turkish F-16, 5 CN-235 maritime surveillance aircraft and 19 helicopters entered the Athens flight information region (FIR) […]

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Seamen announce strike extension, air traffic controller’s stoppage may cause disruption

16th May 2017 Newsroom 0

AP — The seamen’s union announced Tuesday afternoon they would extend their strike, originally planned to last 48 hours, for a further two days, leaving […]

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Video from the British Ambassador Kate Smith CMG for Brits living in or visiting Greece

16th May 2017 Newsroom 0

The British Ambassador to Greece published a video message yesterday on the embassy’s official Facebook page UK in Greece. The video offers some consular messages […]

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Greece ranks second with 486 Blue Flag beach awards – 112 in Crete

16th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Greece ranked second place in the world on the 2017 Blue Flag quality award list for beaches and marinas, among 47 countries, the Hellenic Society […]

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One dead, two injured as fire scorches woodland near Athens

15th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Reuters — One person died and two others were injured when a fire fanned by an early heatwave tore through a forested area in a […]

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Philip Morris is counting on Greece going up in smoke

15th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Independent.ie — When Philip Morris International announced in March that it would invest €300m in its Greek unit, the cigarette maker was betting on an […]

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Paul Mason reviews ‘Adults in The Room’

14th May 2017 Newsroom 0

The Guardian — Varoufakis has written one of the greatest political memoirs of all time, Paul Mason writes in his review of the latest book […]

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Three dead, 10 injured in passenger train derailment

14th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Reuters — Three people died and 10 more were injured when a train derailed in northern Greece on Saturday night and ripped through a house, […]

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Greek ladies in Perth find big success sharing family recipes

13th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Neos Kosmos — A cookbook compiled by a group of Greek heritage women in Perth WA,  has proven to be a big fat Greek hit, […]

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State agency designates portion of old Athens airport land as ‘forest’

13th May 2017 Newsroom 0

Naftemporiki — The Greek forestry state  agency designated a portion of the land at the disused and concrete-laden former Athens airport as “forestland”. The Helleniko […]

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  • How to find your 2019 property tax statement online – and print it

    ENFIA property tax  notifications for property owners in Greece are now available online at  www.gsis.gr . If your accountant has nor sent you the tax demand, which […]

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  • Ten year old mystery of the suspicious death of Jean Hanlon in Crete

    Following a UK Channel 5 documentary entitled ‘Murdered in Paradise : The Killing of Jean Hanlon’, new information has emerged which was  enough to lead […]

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  • PFPO’s stray animals meetings with German MEPs and the Authorities in Crete

    PFPO PRESS RELEASE – (repost) Last month MEPs Professor Klaus Buchner, animal activist Stefan Eck and Georgios Chatzimarkakis, who is from Crete, organized a congress […]

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  • Book club in Apokoronas

    NEW BOOK CLUB Kindle/ebook recommended Meets Monthly Read an entertaining, interesting book every month. Members take turns to propose a choice of books. Meet, discuss […]

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  • A new novel on wartime Crete by Phillip Duke, a former apokoronas resident

    A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life […]

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