Greece welcomed the new year with fireworks and street parties at Athens’ downtown Syntagma Square and other parts of the country on Sunday night, though global challenges were not far from people’s minds, as the messages from the country’s president and prime minister underscored.
An adult female bear was freed from an illegal trap thanks to the joint efforts of Greek and Albanian authorities and wildlife organizations.
There was no need for Wolfgang Schaeuble to depart this futile world for us to grasp that he was despised by a section of the Greek population.
2024 must become the year that the government, the state and society finally start dealing seriously with violence in all its manifestations.
Leftist opposition SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis put the diaspora at the center of his new year’s message on Sunday, while on a holiday visit to the United States.
Citizens of European Union members Romania and Bulgaria will no longer need a passport from March 31, 2024 to travel by air or sea to most other EU countries as well as Norway and Switzerland, the council of EU governments said on Saturday.
The number of principals at Greek schools is nosediving as many such staff have stepped down already this year alone due to the heavy workload.
The European Union is ready to support United Nations-backed efforts to resume Cyprus peace talks, Belgian Ambassador to Cyprus Marc Calcoen told the Cyprus News Agency, as his country prepares to assume the bloc’s six-month rotating presidency on January 1.
The coming year is one of critically important elections.
Scuffles broke out between mourners and Albanian police at the funeral of the grandmother of Fredi Beleri on Sunday, after the mayor-elect of the ethnic-Greek city of Himarre was kept in handcuffs and given just a few minutes to pay his respects.