A police security detail at Athens International Airport has arrested four people who are suspected of running a drug-dealing racket in the area, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) said in an announcement on Tuesday.
New lighting, footpaths and shaded resting areas are but some of the ideas put forward in a proposal for improving the visitor experience at the stunning 370 BC site of Ancient Messene in the southwestern Peloponnese.
The government’s “persuasion strategy” to encourage take-up of the coronavirus vaccine has been “exhausted,” spokesman Yiannis Oikonomou said on Tuesday, as the expiration of a mandate for people aged 60 and above looms closer.
The Greek government is planning an additional package of measures to help households and businesses deal with price increases and an anticipated rise in inflation, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Tuesday.
British writer, actor and presenter Stephen Fry has again reiterated his desire to see the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece, proposing that the British Museum replace them with copies, which could be accompanied by a virtual reality experience.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry was in Cyprus on Tuesday for a meeting with his Cypriot counterpart, Nikos Christodoulides.
The European Union’s idea of jointly borrowing for joint goals, such as for the post-pandemic recovery, could be used again by the EU if the implementation of the recovery scheme is a success, European Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Monday.
A Tourism Ministry bill that will be heading to the Parliament’s plenary next week seeks to establish a more comprehensive framework and introduce tools facilitating public-private partnerships in the promotion and development of travel destinations.
Two children died in a house fire in the impoverished northwestern Athens suburb of Kamatero on Tuesday, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) has reported.
Turkey has “problems” in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean because of Greece and Cyprus’ “expansionist-minded policies and claims,” Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has told lawmakers in Ankara.