Fire breaks out at Xanthi tobacco warehouse
Firemen were on Tuesday trying to put out a fire that broke out at a tobacco warehouse in the center of Xanthi, in northern Greece.
Eurozone consumers in for a shock as power bills soar
When Christian Hurtz opened his electricity bill just before New Year, his jaw dropped: it had more than trebled from the rate he signed up for.
Bolstering the civil service
The government is preparing a three-pronged intervention in favor of civil servants: a bonus for those working in selected agencies, the abolition of the solidarity levy for them too, as of next year, and a new framework for attracting specialized officials from the private sector.
Authorities investigate blast outside Glyfada apartment complex
Authorities are investigating an explosion outside an apartment complex in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Ex-PM Karamanlis tests positive for Covid-19
Former conservative prime minister Kostas Karamanlis has tested positive for Covid-19, his political office said in a statement Tuesday.
Turkish UAV overflights continue
Yet another overflight in the Aegean by a Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle was recorded on Monday as Ankara continued its reminders via military means that it questions the sovereignty of several Greek islands, which it believes were never ceded to Greece.
Greece mourns one of its greatest painters
One of Greece’s most famous artists, painter Alekos Fassianos died at the age of 86 on Sunday in Athens after a long illness.
Human rights groups slam planned biometrics policing program
A new police program to scan people’s faces and fingerprints violates international human rights standards on privacy and is likely to accentuate existing discrimination, Human Rights Watch and Homo Digitalis warned on Tuesday.
Water seen as culprit behind eerie Thessaloniki noise
Geologists have ruled out natural causes in the mystery of a loud noise that has been startling residents of a Thessaloniki neighborhood in the early hours of every day for the past month.
Evolution of the pandemic poses a risk in coming months
We expect that the Greek economy will expand by 6.0% in 2021, and there may be some upside to that forecast as annual GDP growth in real terms was 7.2% in the first half of the year.