Unusually many migrants are the last three days arrived in boats on the Greek islands in the eastern part of the Aegean Sea. From Friday to Monday 443 people reached the islands, reported the Greek authorities.
The number of refugees received in Greece and subsequently taken up by other Member States of the European Union, remains limited. So says the International Organization for Migration (IOM). In total, are contained 10,000 refugees. Most, 3000, are captured by Germany.
A suspicious package that Wednesday was intercepted in the mailroom of the German Ministry of Finance has been sent from Greece. In the thick envelope contained an explosive mixture with an edgy inflammation. Specialists made it harmless.
A Maltese ship Wednesday 113 refugees from a small vessel rescued the Ionian Sea. The Gagliarda brought them to the Greek port of Patras.
The Greek authorities at a harbor pilot in Elefsis intercepted a consignment of approximately 635,000 amphetamine pills. According to the Greek state party was supposedly destined for armed groups in the Middle East.
The Greeks driving is under fire after a 24-year-old millionaire son last Monday in his Porsche at high speed on a family car drove into Athens., Killing four people dead.
The empty Greek treasury is severely embarrassed revenue. The government anticipates that the revival of tourism in Greece this year will provide a significant increase in revenues. The proceeds of the foreign visitors will increase by perhaps 9 percent from 2016.
For the Greek Peloponnese peninsula has a tanker Monday 41 refugees reached a rudderless sailing. The passengers, including six children, called 112 on Monday afternoon and asked the authorities for help. The crew of the tanker has been concerned about the refugees. The ship arrives Tuesday in the port of Piraeus to.
Anarchists in the night from Saturday to Sunday wreaked havoc in the Exarchia district of the Greek capital Athens. They threw Molotov cocktails and stones at police. They crossed garbage containers on fire. The police closed the streets around the Technical University some time off.
Greece has significantly less funding than expected. Athens can with much less from international lenders than was estimated in the design of the third rescue.
Frontex, the European agency for the management of external borders, has since April last year, 894 refugees and migrants sent back to Turkey. These are people who stayed on islands in the Aegean Sea.
Tens of thousands of Greeks have this weekend from their home because of the dismantling of a bomb from World War II. It involves more than 70,000 people in the port city of Thessaloniki.
The inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday rocked by a series of earthquakes. Also at the nearby Turkish coast the people felt the ground tremble.
The Greek coast guard saved about seventy boat refugees in the night from Sunday to Monday. The boat with the refugees floated adrift around the Aegean Sea. The Coast Guard vessel dragged to the port of the southern Velanidia.
The tension between Greece and Turkey, partly because of the refusal by Athens to extradite eight Turks, Thursday continued to rise. The Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias warned that his country 'will no tension, but will not yield to pressure' from Turkey.
Turkey's neighbor Greece provoked by sailing in the territorial waters of Greece with a warship. Around 10:30 Sunday morning approached the vessel and two speedboats the Imia islands. The two countries argue over twenty years on these two uninhabited islands in the Aegean Sea.
The Greek Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers to Turkey. Ankara demanded their extradition because they have participated in the bloody coup attempt in July. The newspaper Kathimerini reported that the Supreme Court judges rejected all eight extradition requests.
Athens is Alexis Mardas deceased, Greek businessman and member of The Beatles, John Lennon which was nicknamed 'Magic Alex'. That Greek media reported.
Despite the icy winter weather and the sometimes strong winds since early this year, 337 refugees and migrants by boat daring to cross from Turkey to the Greek islands. Just on Tuesday, 41 people arrived on the island of Kos.
A policeman's office in Athens by the Greek socialist party Pasok guarded was taken in the night of Monday to Tuesday by an unknown assailant under fire. He was hit by two bullets, but his injuries were not life-threatening, state radio reported.
Greece is white. Large parts of the country are in the night from Sunday to Monday buried under a load of snow. Numerous rural villages and islands in the Aegean Sea are cut off from the outside world.
Many residents of Crete saw Sunday for the first time in their lives snow. It had been snowing for the last forty years ago. The wider area of the port town of Rethymnon on the southern Greek island had long once winter white.
The wintry weather in the northern hemisphere has taken an icy grip. Places in Europe where winter normally speaking, a mild nature, are now visited by snow and frost.
The Greek police on Thursday morning arrested a suspected member of the left-wing terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle. Panagiota Roupa (48) was wanted since 2012. She offered no resistance when she was arrested in a flat in Athens where she was hiding with her child, police said.
It had to be a bright spot in the harsh economic times but it was a disgrace. The mayor of Athens from desperation decided to break off a thirty meter high ferris wheel in the center of the city because the colossus but does not meet the technical requirements.
The Greek police on Monday found a bomb outside the Labour Ministry in Athens. The explosive was hidden according to sources within the police in a backpack.
The Greek parliament Saturday approved the budget for 2017.
Ferry Staff in Greece ended the strike. This can end the sometimes chaotic conditions on the Greek islands. The president of the union PNO made Saturday by the Greek television announced that the ferry staff goes to work after the springs eight days had halted.
A Greek court on Thursday rejected the request for extradition of two Turkish soldiers to their country of origin. They belong to a group of eight to Greece fled soldiers who participated in accordance with the Turkish justice to the violent coup attempt mid July.
The asylum system in Greece has been enhanced to EU countries asylum-seekers who can send back gradually transits from March 15, 2017. They must, however, significantly more migrants from Greece to bring over. The recommendation made by the European Commission on Thursday.
