Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged his ministers to show greater commitment to their work during a cabinet meeting on Friday, reiterating that the elections will take place at the end of the government’s four-year term.
A Thessaloniki court has convicted four young people for violently assaulting a student with a knife in June 2018, an incident a prosecutor blamed on rivalry between fans of rival football clubs.
Cyprus police on Friday detained two men on suspicion of helping two dozen Syrian asylum-seekers reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard a rigid-hulled inflatable boat.
Just under 500 seafarers remain stuck onboard 109 ships at Ukrainian ports – skeleton crews who were left on board to enable their crew mates to be evacuated amid the conflict with Russia, shipping officials said on Friday.
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck Crete on Friday afternoon, according to data from the Athens-based Institute of Geodynamics.
A Turkish court on Friday acquitted two reporters for the US-based Bloomberg news agency who were accused of trying to undermine Turkey’s economic stability with a story on Turkey’s currency crisis in 2018.
Athens metro and tram will operate as normal on May Day on Sunday but buses and trolleybuses will only run between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., it was announced on Friday.
Greece’s energy adequacy is fully guaranteed and gas supplies will be made in such a way as not to violate the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at a meeting of his cabinet on Friday.
Health authorities announced 7,463 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 9 a.m. Friday, a slight decline on Thursday’s figure of 7,580.
The head of the European Union’s border agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has offered to resign, a source told Reuters on Friday, after accusations that the body mistreated migrants on the external frontiers of the bloc.