The trial into the deadly wildfire in Mati, east Attica, in 2018 started on Monday only to be adjourned until a bigger courtroom can be found. The concern is that any more delays on top of those in the investigative and prosecutorial process will cause the statute of limitations to expire.
A large search-and-rescue operation was under way on Tuesday for dozens of asylum seekers whose boat went down in the Kafireas Strait between the Aegean islands of Andros and Evia in the early hours of the day.
The Albanian authorities have arrested and handed over to their Greek counterparts a 45-year-old man suspected of raping a woman in the early hours of October 23 in southern Athens.
A draft bill allowing National Health System doctors to practice privately and even use public hospital facilities to treat their private patients has been criticized by both privately and publicly employed doctors.
Astronomers on the hunt for modestly sized asteroids that could vaporize a city or bulkier beasts that could sterilize Earth’s surface have spotted a new potential threat.
The PASOK-Movement for Change party on Tuesday said that it had struck off a member who is being investigated as part of a major pedophile ring centered in the downtown Athens district of Kolonos.
The Athens and Piraeus municipalities have decided to reduce municipal charges on property owners in Athens by 5% and Piraeus by 2%.
Private sector workers on the minimum salary of 713 euros per month still pay at least €70 more for social security contributions compared to the vast majority of freelancers and self-employed who have chosen the first social insurance category of €220.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on a visit to Lithuania and Estonia, criticized Turkey Monday for playing an ambiguous game in the Ukraine war and highlighted its similar revisionist approach to history with Russia.
The heads of state of the European Union and the Western Balkans are scheduled to meet on December 6 in Tirana to discuss the region’s future, at a time when the dramatic developments in Ukraine are threatening to reactivate the Balkan “rift,” among the many other repercussions of the war.