Athens metro all-day strike on Thursday
An all-day strike will shut down the Athens metro Thursday.
‘A strange dream’: A cruise ship is a floating shelter for displaced Turks
The dinner theater is now a day care center, where children rifle through boxes of donated toys. The beauty salon has turned into a one-man barbershop.
Power costs a priority for Nicosia
One of the first priorities of the new administration in Cyprus will be to reduce the cost of electricity in order to help the industry and the economy reach the potential “they deserve,” the island’s new minister of energy, commerce and industry, Giorgos Papanastasiou, said on Wednesday.
Athens-Benghazi service begins flights on Thursday
Flights between Athens and the Libyan city of Benghazi will launch on Thursday, the Greek Foreign Affairs Ministry announced on Tuesday.
Reflexive criminalization
The comments typed by SYRIZA lawmaker Pavlos Polakis last Sunday on his Facebook account at two in the morning after (we imagine) some partying, which targeted journalists and judges whom he claimed represent the “deep state,” were obscene.
Cut-price auction for one in four assets
More than a quarter of the properties that changed hands at auction last year saw their commercial prices undercut by between 20% and 35%.
New evidence emerges in spyware probe
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) has identified at least 300 text messages containing spyware-infected links and sent to around 100 individuals, the head of the agency, Konstantinos Menoudakos, told PEGA, the European Parliament committee investigating the use of Predator and other surveillance spyware, on Tuesday. Menoudakos said the HDPA is still trying to identify…
No trains Thursday as personnel strike in protest
Trains will not run anywhere in Greece Thursday, after the Panhellenic Federation of Railway Employees (POS) decided on a 24-hour strike.
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Decline in number of refugee, migrant entries
The number of migrants and refugees entering Greece is trending downward this year, with a year-to-year decrease of 55%.