Forty passengers travelling from the northern port city of Thessaloniki to the western town of Ioannina were left stranded in intense snowstorm on Friday evening after their long-distance KTEL bus broke down.
As EU leaders meet in Brussels this week, their focus is largely on Ukraine and its ties to the EU. In the buildup to the summit, however, the Western Balkans also caught their attention.
Three environmental groups have filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Greece about hydrocarbon extraction.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said from Brussels on Friday that he does not see a change in decision-making, while referring to the decision taken by the European Council to open accession negotiations with Ukraine when Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stepped out of the meeting.
Students and police forces engaged in a tense standoff, which at times spilled over, on Friday outside a hotel in Kavouri on the southern coast of Athens where a meeting of university deans was taking place.
A fan of Olympiacos club was banned for life from the Peace and Friendship stadium in Neo Faliro after shouting a racist slur against French referee Joseph Bissang during a basketball match between the Greek club and Valencia on Friday.
Direct access to the islands of Imbros and Tenedos has been a perennial request of the natives of the two islands. Particularly on Imbros, the largest of the two, where, under the Lausanne Treaty, Ankara had a contractual obligation to safeguard rights and property (and certainly did so only piecemeal), there is a problem of…
The rail link between Athens and Thessaloniki has reopened after a three-month stoppage caused by Storm Daniel, with 131 boarding the first service from the capital on Saturday morning. “The Greek railway is back on the tracks,” said Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras.
Greece proceeded on Friday with the early repayment of two installments of bilateral loans, as it had long planned.
A new type of residence permit for third-country citizens is being created to resolve the major issue of labor shortages, to eliminate the phenomena of undeclared work, and to ensure public order and security.