The recent rash of acts of violence against hospital staff tells us that the medics who work in Greece’s National Health System (ESY) – the same people who were hailed as heroes during the pandemic – are falling victim once more to the failings of the system.
A mixed jury court in Thessaloniki sentenced a 60-year-old man who killed his bedridden and blind mother because he was “tired of taking care of her” to life in prison and an extra 21 years on Friday.
A group of people attacked MP and former minister Yanis Varoufakis at a restaurant in the Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, breaking his nose.
While Euroleague leader Olympiakos’ win over Bayern at home on Thursday was hardly a surprise, the victory Panathinaikos scored against Red Star Belgrade in Athens on Friday was definitely eye-catching, after a long string of six defeats for the Greens.
Over 50% of supplementary pension applications that had been pending for years have been issued within the past two months, while the remaining almost 50% of pensioners still waiting are expected to receive their pension advance by the middle of next week, with an extraordinary lump-sum payment from the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA).
British ambient composer and musician Roger Eno is coming to Athens to perform in the massively successful St Paul’s Sessions concert series.
The rising sequence of 11 weeks came to an emphatic end on Friday, with the Greek bourse benchmark this week losing a significant portion of the ground gained over the last month.
Late last month, as part of its monitoring of Iran’s nuclear program, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported trace amounts of uranium at 84% enrichment.
State asset utilization fund (TAIPED) on Thursday announced Aplekton Holdings Co Limited as the highest bidder in a tender for the long-term lease of part of the former Olympic Equestrian Center at Markopoulo
In July 2022 Professors Konstantinos Drosatos and Nicholas Ktistakis published a letter in Nature, the pre-eminent scientific journal, demanding the creation of a national research foundation in Greece. Forty scientists, including myself, were co-signatories. The letter raised one fundamental issue, namely the lack of systematic funding that would support research in Greece. Greece’s spending on…