podlist.gr

The Greek Current
The Greek Current

US to lift travel restrictions on international travelers

The Biden Administration announced on Monday that it will lift coronavirus travel restrictions for fully vaccinated travelers, reopening its borders for the first time in more than a year and bringing an end to the series of travel bans first imposed by President Donald Trump 18 months ago. This decision by the White House also answers a growing EU grievance — that EU countries had opened up to non-essential US travelers, but that Washington was not reciprocating for Europeans. The move to reopen travel between Europe and the US was welcomed by European officials, the travel industry, and citizens who were not able to visit the US. Kiran Stacey, the Washington, DC correspondent for the Financial Times, joins our host Thanos Davelis to break down this latest development.

Read Kiran Stacey’s reporting in Financial Times: US to relax air travel restrictions for vaccinated foreign passengers

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here: 

Greek authorities begin moving migrants into new camp

Why Greece’s expensive new migrant camps are outraging NGOs

New naval base at Souda on the cards

 

Πηγή

‹ Προηγούμενο Επόμενο ›

Περισσότερα επεισόδια

Russia's hybrid war and Europe's far right turn

On August 4, a drone struck the wing of a Ukrainian aircraft at Germany’s Leipzig Airport and fell onto the tarmac. It failed to explode. Two more drones were also found nearby over the next few days. All the evidence has pointed to Russia as the main culprit, with German officials highlighting how the Leipzig airport attack followed a “well-established pattern of Russian hybrid operations in...

Greece lures hedge funds and rebuilds market trust while NATO looks to put Greenland saga behind it

At the height of the last decade’s financial crisis, Greece was not only struggling to keep capital in the country, but its borrowing cost was also sky high. Today, Greece is wooing the world’s leading hedge funds with a new tax regime designed to lure investors to establish substantial operations in Athens, and we’ve already seen it persuade billionaire Chris Rokos and the hedge fund...

The Houthis and the Red Sea crisis, Turkish threats in the Aegean, and political turmoil in Serbia

This week we’re traveling around the region, moving from the Red Sea to the Balkans.While the Iran war has disrupted energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s attention shifted to another major global chokepoint at the mouth of the Red Sea this past week, the Bab-el Mandeb Strait, as Iran-backed Houthi rebels tighten their grip over this strategic maritime route and threaten Saudi...