Greece and the economic crisis 2021

NEWS ARCHIVE - February 2021

February 25, 2021

Pandemic case count at 186,469

Story at Protothema [English]

Hellenic Petroleum and covid

Story at Reuters [English]

Ferry strike over

Story at Imerazante [Greek]

Tourism Minister Harry Theocharis eager for UK tourism

"With or without vaccine" - story at MSN News [English]

Lignadis in court

Story at Skai [Greek] and at Parapolitika [Greek] and "the collapsing world" of a corrupt system at Ethnos [Greek]

"Third wave" fears and the decline of infection in Europe

Story at CNBC [Engish]

Dendias talks about foreign forces leaving Libya

Dendias also mentions the rescue of over 319K refugees and migrants at sea - Story at Protothema [English]

Fili landfill set to close in four years

Story at E-ota.gr [Greek]

The digital revolution in Greece

The long reputation for bureaucratic inefficiency in the Greek system is changing.

Crammed with thousands of folders and blue OAED registration cards spilling out onto desks and floor space, the corridors of the building where he spoke still offer a daunting vision of the challenge to overhauling public services in Greece.

But conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says he is determined to harness the pandemic to "leapfrog" other countries with green and digital reforms to change everything from energy to education.

Greece has long been an online laggard, languishing at the bottom of the European Union's digital economy rankings, but shifts forced by the pandemic and billions of euros from the EU's Recovery Fund may accelerate change.

Story at Yahoo News [English]