“This Easter will be different,” government spokesperson Stelios Petsas reiterated on Friday in an interview with Skai TV, adding that “it is one of the few times in the history of mankind that we can all become heroes by doing something simple: staying home and following the instructions of experts to save human lives.” Noting […]

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras expressed his satisfaction on Friday with the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) co-leader Norbert Walter Borjans’ public support for the coronavirus Eurobond.  In a post on social media, the main opposition party leader stressed the need for EU member states who signed a petition calling for the bond to push forward […]

“We are not at the beginning of the end. We are probably at the end of the beginning,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday in parliament, during a plenary debate on the measures to address the novel coronavirus crisis. He also stressed the importance of not allowing the healthcare system to become overwhelmed. The […]

Greece has taken protective and restrictive measures against the coronavirus pandemic until the end of April, said government spokesman Stelios Petsas at a remote-held press briefing on Thursday, replying to a question about the outbreak’s effect on tourism.  What happens after April depends greatly on how the pandemic develops in coming weeks, as Greece has […]