EU Digital COVID Certificate The European Commission on Thursday adopted two new decisions certifying that COVID-19 certificates issued by Armenia and the United Kingdom are equivalent to the EU Digital COVID Certificate for travel. According to an announcement by the Commission, the two countries will be connected to the EU’s system and the COVID certificates […]
The Hellenic Hoteliers Federation’s Board of Directors. Greek hoteliers hit by the Covid-19 crisis will start recovering losses in three to five years’ time, said Hellenic Hoteliers Federation (POX) President Grigoris Tasios during the the body’s general assembly held in Athens on Thursday. “Following two years of the pandemic, the average decline in turnover is
Photo source: European Commission / © Synthex/Adobe Stock Sixteen major airlines have committed to better inform passengers and timely issue refunds in case of flight cancellations, the European Commission said on Thursday. Among other things, the airlines have committed to refunding passengers within 7 days, as required under EU law, in case of flight cancellations. […]
Photo source: @European Commission The European Commission has approved a Greek scheme with an estimated budget of up to 500 million euros to support the uncovered fixed costs of companies affected by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. “Many companies in Greece have seen their revenues significantly decline because of the coronavirus outbreak and of the measures […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Photo source: @PrimeMinisterGR The European Commission announced on Monday that it had released 4 billion euros in pre-financing to Greece as part of the EU’s post-Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The amount is 13 percent of the total Greece is entitled to
The European Commission on Wednesday approved a 130-million-euro Greek scheme to support micro and small enterprises affected by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and the restrictive measures that the government in Greece had to implement to limit the spread of the virus. The scheme was approved under the State Aid Temporary Framework. The measure will be […]
The European Commission on Monday approved, under EU State aid rules, a 110-million-euro aid to compensate Athens International Airport (AIA) S.A. for the damages suffered due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. AIA S.A. is the operator of Athens’ airport Eleftherios Venizelos. The measure will enable Greece to compensate the airport’s operator for the damage suffered
The Greek government and the European Commission on Friday signed the first funding agreement that is part of Greece’s national recovery and resilience plan (dubbed Greece 2.0). The first agreement covers financial support of 17.8 billion euros. Approved by the EU earlier this month, the plan sees Greece receiving around 31 billion euros from the […]
Loans that will support investment, a full-fledged tourism development strategy and tapping into parallel aid programs are the three ways the Greek tourism industry is set to benefit from EU recovery funds, said Alternate Finance Minister Theodore Skylakakis on Wednesday. Speaking during an event organized by the Tourism Ministry and the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels […]
Photo: GTP Greece expects by the end of the month to have access to approximately 4 billion euros in support from the European Union’s Recovery Fund, said Finance Minister Christos Staikouras this week. Staikouras was in Brussels on Tuesday participating in a meeting of EU finance ministers who approved the recovery plans of 12 member […]

















