Latest News from Greece
Delta Air Lines resumes Athens to New York flights service
Delta Air Lines restarts nonstop flights service from Athens to New York effective April 5, 2016.
The U.S. airline marks its 25th anniversary of service to Greece this year and has transported more than 1.5 million passengers between Athens and the United States since its first flight on November 1, 1991.
Greece’s intelligence service behind phone-tapping, says Tagesspiegel for Wikileaks
The disagreement between IMF and EU was revealed by Wikileaks bringing to light a phone conversation between top two IMF officials, Poul Thomsen and Delia Velculescu, who are reportedly saying that they might push Greece to the brink of a credit event so as Greece would accept the strict measures it proposed.
Lagarde: Speculation that IMF threatens with credit event is simply nonsense
IMF leader Christine Lagarde on Sunday responded to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ letter of April 2 regarding the wikileaks documents that revealed a conversation between top two IMF officials, Poul Thomsen and Delia Velculescu, showing that IMF was planning to push Greece to the brink of a credit event so as Greece would accept the strict measures it proposed.
Turkey, Europe to swap first groups of migrants
Germany will take the first Syrian refugees subject to an EU-Turkey pact on April 4, with its ambassador noting that the small group's "resettlement" will serve as a "test" to determine deficiencies in the EU-Turkey readmission deal reached this month, as Greece readies to send its first batch of migrants to Turkey.