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Leros Island to Require Registration for Passenger Animals

Horses, donkeys and mules will receive registration numbers and legal liability for accidents on the Greek island of Leros, following a decision by the island’s City Council. The new regulation will include all “passenger animals” and it provides that...

Greek Islands See Sixfold Increase in Refugees This Year

Over 42,000 migrants arrived by sea in Greece during the first five months of 2015, with the majority of them being refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Eritrea, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The influx of migrants on the...

Turks Buy Greek Marinas

Turkish companies operating in the yachting sector are aiming to expand in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and specifically in Greece. Turkish companies are the only ones to invest in this sector and buy Greek marinas since both Greeks and investors from...

Immigrants From Farmakonisi Arrive in Piraeus

On Thursday at 10am in the morning, 16 survivors – most of them Afghans – of the wreck in Farmakonisi arrived at Piraeus port. While those people managed to survive, at least four others lost their lives while 10...

Another Two Suicides on Greek Islands

Another two suicides in the Dodecanese, eastern Greece, are added to the long and tragic list. Last Thursday on Leros, a 20 year-old girl hanged herself, while on Kos, a 42 year-old father of two ended his life with a...

Tax Offices on Islands Close

As the Finance Ministry announced, from June 17, six tax offices on Greek islands will close, while 14 more will merge with other more central tax offices by September 1. The decision is in accordance with the Memorandum to have...