Eleven of the 13 municipalities that make up the regional unit of Thessaloniki in northern Greece have joined forces to tackle a housing shortage by setting up a new agency that will be responsible for creating affordable accommodation.
Ruling New Democracy conservatives are leading leftist SYRIZA opposition by more than 10 percentage points, according to an MRB poll published on Friday.
The government has decided to increase its subsidization of the electricity and natural gas bills, under the burden of the ever-rising energy market rates.
Turkey’s crisis accelerated on Friday as the lira plunged 6% to a new all-time low, gripped by concerns over an inflationary spiral brought on by President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox plan to slash interest rates in the face of soaring prices.
A new free mobile app PANICosGR allows users needing help to simply press a red button to send an automated message to a default emergency contact.
A team from Athens University and the National Observatory’s Beyond research center are working on a “master plan” for tackling the impact of climate change on the Greek capital, sharing the first findings of a series of studies on flood and wildfire risks at a conference in Athens on Thursday.
Eight distinguished figures of the Greek diaspora have been honored for excelling in their field and promoting Greece abroad at the third edition of the annual Argo Awards.
Eight suspects have been detained so far during an ongoing police operation in the western Athens suburbs of Zefyri and Ano Liosia Friday.
In a show of their gangster credentials, young residents of Zefyri in West Attica posted videos on social media of themselves holding weapons and firing into the air.
Members of Greece’s elite counterterrorism unit EKAM were on Friday conducting an illegal arms search operation in the western Attica suburb of Zefyri.