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Qatar will allow visa-free entry for citizens of 80 countries, with immediate effect, Qatari officials announced today. Greece is amongst them. Other countries include the UK, the USA, Canada, India, South Africa, Seychelles, Australia and New Zealand. Nationals of the these...

The Greek Government passed the relevant legislation related to the approval and implementation of the working holiday visa. All relevant Ministers signed the legislation and the Ministry of Education is the responsible authority. The agreement is in part an initiative...

The Greek government has granted the approval of a visa program which will allow Greeks and Australian nationals up to the age of 31-years-old to work in each of the countries, respectively, for up to 12 months. The approval of...

The opportunity given to Georgian citizens to travel without visa to the Schengen countries is a milestone for the relations of Georgia with the European Union, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday in a meeting with Georgian...

Tourism bodies and municipal authorities in the northern Aegean reacted angrily to a letter by Alternate Foreign Minister George Katrougalos informing them that the European Commission rejected the extension of a visa facilitation pilot program that allowed Turkish nationals...

  Greece's Deputy Foreign Minister, Nikos Xydakis said that the EU and Russia were set to pick up their bilateral talks on easing the visa regime where they left off in 2013, according to an interview to Sputnik news. Sputnik reports...

Within a matter of hours of Turkey’s new government being announced, a major dispute over visas erupted Wednesday between Ankara and the European Union, threatening one of the main foreign policy achievements of ousted prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Turkish President...

German tabloid Bild reports on the existence of Plan B to deal with the refugee crisis should the deal between Turkey and the European Union fall through. The alternative plan examines the restriction of migrant flows without the participation...

Washington gave Athens a deadline until April 2017 to retrofit all IDs in order to avoid Greece's expulsion from the Visa Waiver Program for Greek citizens who travel to the US. The decision is already in action since April 1. In order for...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Tuesday that Turkey must meet all remaining conditions before the EU can open up visa-free travel. His comments came a day after Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned that if the EU does not...