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Generic drug brands allowed in prescriptions
Doctors are now being allowed to recommend specific generic drugs when they issue prescriptions, in what the government says is a move designed to increase the use of this form of medicines in Greece.
Seven tourist destinations for gay and straight couples alike!
Besides popular Mykonos which offers its visitors amenities like never before, and Santorini which has become world famous with its romantic sunsets and beautiful vistas, Greece has many different destinations for all visitors, straight or gay.
Tsipras presses for early Greek debt deal but flags referendum
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on April 28 that he was confident of an early deal with international creditors, after shaking up his negotiating team and sidelining his outspoken finance minister who has infuriated eurozone partners.
Creditors to demand extra measures of 3 bln euros
By Sotiris Nikas
The distance separating Athens from Brussels in the ongoing negotiations remains great, with European officials estimating that Greece will have to promise additional measures this year in order to reach an agreement with its creditors on the fiscal and macroeconomic figures.
66 more migrants heading to Europe captured in southern Turkey
The number of migrants recently captured in Turkey's southern province of Mersin by the Turkish Coast Guard has increased to 416, after a raid on a ship heading toward Italy.
Greeks add pressure on Tsipras to compromise as talks resume
By Marcus Bensasson & Nikos Chrysoloras
Greece resumed efforts to break a deadlock with its creditors as weekend polls showed a majority of the country?s people want the government to make compromises needed to release funds for its economy.
Pensions will not be cut, insists social insurance chief
The government will not back down in its resistance to lenders? calls for cuts to basic or auxiliary pensions, insists general secretary for social insurance Giorgos Romanias.
?There is pressure on this issue but we are resisting this pressure,? he told Ant-1 TV on Monday morning.
Govt negotiations with Brussels Group begin anew
A teleconference meeting with the Brussels Group on Monday hopes to restart negotiations on key issues of the Greek economy. Talks are a precursor to Wednesday's meetings in Brussels for negotiations until the start of May, after hopes for a solution for Greece until the end of April were dashed.
Greek tourism threatened by various factors
By Stathis Kousounis
Greek tourism finds itself in a difficult period due to the country?s economic instability, the immigration issue, the resumption of street riots in Athens, and the turbulence in Greek-US relations due to a new Greek bill that would pave the way for the release of a convicted terrorist.
SYRIZA still leads in the polls, but support dropping
The SYRIZA-Independent Greeks' coalition government appears to be exhausting "political capital" at breakneck speed, if judged by results of a recent opinion poll commissioned by, and published on Sunday by Proto Thema, Greece's best-selling newspaper.
More undocumented migrants land on Lesvos, Kos; others attempt Evros crossing
Another five hundred irregular migrants managed to land on the east Aegean island of Lesvos over the last 24 hours, according to local media and coast guard authorities, while three migrant-smuggling vessels were located just outside the island of Kos, further south.
The most gay beaches of the world, including one in Greece
Destsetters dubbed Elia Beach in Mykonos as the third of eight of the world's most stunning gay beaches. Specifically, the site states that Mykonos is "the most popular gay island in Greece, so it's only natural that it hosts one of the most known gay beaches in the world. Elia beach is only 8 km away from Chora and it is characterized by its exotic beauty.
Police rescue 69 migrants from Evros River
A police patrol in northeastern Greece on Saturday rescued 69 migrants stranded on the Evros River, the natural boundary with Turkey, which is a popular crossing point into Europe.
The police used an inflatable dinghy to bring the undocumented immigrants ? 42 men, 10 women and 17 children ? to the shore.
Athens grateful for increase in EU funding for migration crisis
The doubling of aid to Mediterranean countries to help with the rise in the number of undocumented migrants is one of the main things Greece can take away from Thursday?s European Union leaders? summit on the migration crisis, according to Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou.
EU doubles emergency aid to nations dealing with migrants
The European Union has doubled the emergency aid to frontline member states Italy, Greece and Malta which have to deal with the massive influx of migrants coming across the Mediterranean to 50 million euros ($54 million) a year.