The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development held a Public Hearing on the “Fruits, vegetables and wine market situation – the impact of the ”. The hearing was intended to address the impact on the agricultural market of the measures implemented to tackle the pandemic. Six exper...

President Sassoli spoke against Chinese sanctions, led a minute of silence in memory of victims of Soviet deportations and marked the 200th anniversary of the Greek revolution. Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP...

REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Greece and France in relation to natural disasters and to Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, France, Ge...

European Commission Ομιλία Athens, 06 May 2021 Ήμουν 17 χρόνων όταν έβλεπα στην τηλ&epsilon... ...

As part of the on-going work to promote inclusive education in Greece, an online ‘study visit’ to Scotland will take place in March. ...

Families_Share toolkits were ideated and created to increase the impact and follow-up of the project. In detail, five different toolkits are available in five languages (English, Italian, Greek, Dutch and Hungarian), addressed to 5 target groups (parents, NGOs, companies, municipalities, d...

IATA urged EU to support an initiative from Greek PM to agree on a COVID-19 vaccination certificate allowing travel without testing...

Speaking today in Athens at the Future of Retail conference attended by 700 Greek retailers and organised by the Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Entrepreneurship, ESEE, a leading member of EuroCommerce, Director-General Christian Verschueren identified the key trends set to shape Europea...

Mon, 09/24/2018 - 12:00 - The third bail-out programme for Greece ended in August, but the crisis isn’t over. Nine years after the crisis broke, public debt still amounts to 180 percent of gross domestic product, a level incompatible with stable economic development. There have been imp...

Greece’s main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras has given his backing to the much maligned AstraZeneca vaccine, questioning why its COVID-19 vaccine was being rolled out without drama in the UK but not in the European Union and implying that political and business interests were at play....

Reports in the Greek media have linked US confectionery giant Mondelez International with a deal to buy an Athens-based snacks business. ...

Reports in the Greek media have linked US confectionery giant Mondelez International with a deal to buy an Athens-based snacks business. ...

Southern California has witnessed a burgeoning Indian immigrant population in recent decades. And among the cultural features that most distinguishes Indians is their cuisine. Their use of herbs and spices in food and medicine, in particular, is tightly bound to language, religion, gender,...

The Commission has received official recovery and resilience plans from Germany and Greece. These plans set out the reforms and public investment projects that each member state plans to implement with the support of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The RRF is the key instrument...

Mountains of the Balkan Peninsula are significant biodiversity hotspots with great species richness and a large proportion of narrow endemics. Processes that have driven the evolution of the rich Balkan mountain flora, however, are still insufficiently explored and understood. Here we focu...

The European Parliament voted to waive the immunity of convicted Golden Dawn lawmaker Ioannis Lagos (pictured).  In the long-awaited vote, which took place late on Monday but whose results were published today (27 April), 658 MEPs voted in favor, 25 against and 10 abstained.  The decisio...

Opinion on the Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund to provide assistance to Greece and France in relation to natural disasters and to Albania, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, France, Ge...

The European Union will be able to produce enough vaccines to achieve its target for immunity of its adult population by the middle of July, the EU executive's vaccine task force chief said in an interview with a Greek newspaper published on Sunday (25 April). The European Commission has s...

CVC Capital Partners is to acquire a majority stake in another Greece-focused dairy business, four months after acquiring Vivartia. ...

Fluid conditions of shallow marine hydrothermal vent sites (<200 mbsl) in island arcs resemble those of subaerial epithermal systems. This leads to a distinct mineralization-style compared to deeper arc/back-arc (>200 mbsl) and mid-ocean ridge-related environments (>2000 mbsl)....

“We are saying goodbye to the coal age,” Greece’s energy state secretary told EURACTIV following last week's announcement that the country’s last lignite plant will be shut down in 2025, three years earlier than planned....

Ersin Tatar, the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, has urged the international community to acknowledge the existence of two states in Cyprus to help resolve the decades-old dispute between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots. “We are going to Geneva with a new vision...

Risk-sharing instrument deployed under the European Guarantee Fund ("EGF") for the support of mid-caps and large corporates in Greece that are active in sectors that are in line with the EIB's long-term mission (innovation, environment and intermediated small and medium-sized enterprises (...

Risk-sharing instrument deployed under the European Guarantee Fund (EGF) for the support of mid-caps and large corporates in Greece that are active in sectors that are in line with the EIB's long-term mission (innovation, environment and intermediated support for small and medium-sized ent...

The project concerns the construction and modernisation of several data centres located in Milan and Turin as well as one in Greece. At the same time, the national optical transmission and IP (Internet Protocol) backbone will also be modernised in order to cope with the heavily growing tra...

Companies across Greece can now benefit from a new EUR 500 million European Investment Fund initiative to be managed across the country by five leading local banks. The scheme, announced by Prime Minister Mitsotakis last year, will improve access to finance by companies and accelerate inve...

Vulnerable communities and small businesses across Greece can now benefit from a new €8.1 million financing scheme managed by Attica Bank and backed by the European Investment Fund (EIF). The new financing will allow entrepreneurs to create jobs and help vulnerable groups boost their bus...

This is the ninth enhanced surveillance report on Greece monitoring the commitments made by the Greek government at the Eurogroup of 22 June 2018....

Greece and Hungary deposited their instrument of ratification for the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS (Multilateral Convention or MLI), which now covers over 1700 bilateral tax treaties, thus underlining their strong commitment to prevent th...

VIENNA, 9 April 2021 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, expressed her shock by the killing of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz in Athens, Greece, today. “This is a horrific event,” said Ribeiro. “Journalists should always be safe to do their wo...

Start of a New Project RIDE ! We are pleased to announce the start of a new European project RIDE, funded by the European Union’s AMIF Fund, led by UNITEE (Belgium), and in collaboration with Diesis Coop (Belgium), Litus Novum (Germany, Youth Included (Czech Republic), Simp...

Migration: Commission and Greece agree on a joint plan for a new reception centre in LesvosToday, the Commission concluded a memorandum of understanding with Greek authorities and EU agencies to better manage migration and asylum processes and to establish a new reception and identificatio...

2000 vulnerable asylum seekers and recognised refugees relocated this year from Greece Today, a milestone was reached in the voluntary relocation scheme from Greece as, despite the current pandemic, more than 2000 vulnerable asylum seekers and recognised refugees have been relocated this y...

Feasibility and sustainability of small-scale farming systems are the most critical factors that determine future investments of urban agro-farming while promoting eco-systematic livelihood development and biodiversity. The determination and the diversification of the ambivalent and hetero...

Multipurpose herbal teas with numerous ingredients, in which flowers are the main component, are common in the traditional medicine and pharmacy of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean countries. In this study, we combine ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology field work techniques and botany a...

Empirical studies of ancient cities must break down communities into their component parts, but frequently encounter difficulty with the scarcity of excavated domestic structures (e.g., Kramer, 1982, p. 673). I introduce to the archaeological literature the entropy estimating statistical b...

The accumulation of hazardous contaminants in Cannabis sativa L. raises warning signs regarding possible adverse effects on human health due to the consumption of herbal medicines and/or other herbal edible products made from cannabis. Thus, there is an urge to investigate the levels of ha...

To ensure it remains accessible in a time of COVID-19 restrictions and to preserve its priceless artefacts for generations to come, the Acropolis Museum in Athens has gone online, in a project supported ...... ...

The Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (OBI) has improved its Back Office system, with the support of the EUIPO’s European Cooperation Projects (ECP2). ...

Road safety: 4 000 fewer people lost their lives on EU roads in 2020 as death rate falls to all time lowFri, 16/04/2021Today the European Commission published preliminary figures on road fatalities for 2020. An estimated 18 800 people were killed in a road crash last year, an unprecedented...

Bilbao, Grenoble, Lilienthal, and Mönchengladbach win European sustainable mobility awardsMon, 19/04/2021The European Commission today announced the winners of the EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK Awards 2020, the 9th Award for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP Award) and the EU Urban Road Sa...