17.03.2020
Editorial: Uphill battle
We are still at the beginning of an extremely difficult uphill struggle which we are obliged to fight until the end under extremely adverse circumstances.
English Edition
16.03.2020
Health ministry announces slight rise in Covid-19, over 4,000 test conducted
Infectious Diseases expert Professor Sotiris Tsiodras said that there were 21 new cases since in the 24 hours since 16 March. The source of infection for 51 cases is undetermined, he added.
16.03.2020
Editorial: Trying times
The economic crisis of 2008 should be a lesson to us in 2020 and the EU must do “whatever is necessary” as then ECB chief Mario Draghi had declared in order to limit the harm to the economy caused by the Coronavirus.
15.03.2020
Greek president takes to Facebook to unify nation in Coronavirus battle, stresses public health guidelines
'Our country, Europe, and the entire planet is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis the consequences of which right now we are unable to predict or even imagine,' said President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
14.03.2020
Lockdown expanded throughout Greece, government launches ‘stay home’ self-isolation campaign
The government is scurrying to swiftly address the economic emergency with an initial framework of compensation for businesses which are being battered by the expected extended lockdown.
10.03.2020
Editorial: Messages
We cannot afford to have more people doing just as they please and that means that the state must use all the legal means in its arsenal to make it perfectly clear that such behaviour will not be tolerated.
09.03.2020
Editorial: Measure
A sense of measure is what is needed in these critical hours and that objective can only be achieved if everyone participates. No system can survive if society loses its sense of measure.
08.03.2020
Editorial: Prudence
Epidemiologists and other specialists in the public health system have issued clear guidelines on how to handle the virus, a number of which depend on everyone’s cooperation.
06.03.2020
Editorial: Public health crisis
Composure in dealing with COVID-19 must not give way to panic and recklessness must not undermine the requisite sense of individual responsibility, which entails assiduously tending to personal hygiene and religiously enforcing the guidelines o
05.03.2020
Editorial: Bystanders
Moscow is now a major player in the region and its influence is inversely proportional to that of other strong players such as the US and the EU.
05.03.2020
Over 20 coronavirus cases in Greece detected im members of a group of Holy Land pilgrims
Over 20 of the current 31 cases were infected on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land combined with a visit to Egypt. The first confirmed case from that trip was a 66-year-old man currently in an isolated intensive care area in the University Hospital of Rio
04.03.2020
Editorial: The EU’s responsibility
The reinforcements and equipment το guard the Greek-Turkish borders are welcome and are the product of the cognisance of the fact that this is not a problem between Greece and Turkey but rather between the EU and Turkey.
03.03.2020
Editorial: Excuses
As one saw with successive efforts to enforce the smoking ban those who acted with defiance did not target unjust laws which often create a social backlash but rather laws that they simply did not like.
03.03.2020
Presidents of European Commission, Council, Parliament at Greek-Turkish border pledge 700mn euro for Athens to handle migrant crisis
'Indeed, these are extraordinary circumstances. And we have just been to the border area and have seen how tense and how difficult the situation is. The Greek authorities are facing a very difficult task in containing the situation.,' said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
02.03.2020
Editorial: Institutions
The parliamentary committee conducting the preliminary criminal inquiry is invested with the powers of an investigating magistrate and it must seek in every direction all information related to this shadowy affair.
01.03.2020
Ankara directs masses of migrants towards Greek-Turkish borders, Athens demands EU solidarity
Greece is aising to the highest level the measures to guard the country’s eastern land and sea borders by security forces and the Greek armed forces to fend off illegal entry into the country.
28.02.2020
Editorial: Personal responsibility
Everyone bears the personal responsibility to protect themselves, their family and friends, their fellow citizens, and public health in general.
27.02.2020
Editorial: Trial
The appearance of the coronavirus will be a difficult test for the state’s infrastructure and for the professionalism and readiness of state functionaries and officials.
