A man and a woman are expected to appear before a prosecutor after being arrested by police in Ioannina for the illegal possession of antiquities. A search of the 59-year-old woman’s home yielded, among others, two Roman amphorae, five icons, a metal detector, a glazed vessel and a silver coin.
Coast guard officials in Lavrio have launched an investigation after a man’s body was recovered from the sea off the southeastern coast of Attica. Firefighters on Wednesday removed the body from the water near the Hryso Feggari beach at Lavreotiki.
Cabinet on Wednesday approved a social security bill that includes provisions aimed at strengthening the incomes of pensioners and facilitating the retirement of insured persons, as well as fundamental interventions in the institution of professional insurance of the second pillar.
The Environment Ministry has announced a subsidy for biomass harvesting from forests in order to reduce flammable material.
EU Commission Vice-president Margaritis Schinas said on Thursday that EU rules in place for returning illegal migrants to their country of origin are not adequate and that there are new proposals on the table to be discussed, ahead of a meeting of EU migration ministers to discuss improving security in the bloc after deadly attacks…
European Union interior ministers met Thursday to discuss how to manage the impact of the war between Israel and Hamas on the bloc, after a firebomb assault on a Berlin synagogue and killings in Belgium and France by suspected Islamist extremists.
Greece “can play a very important mediating role,” in the developing conflict in the Middle East, Palestinian Ambassador to Greece, Yussef Dorkhom, said at a press briefing held at the embassy on Wednesday.
The chairman of the British Museum, George Osborne, has said a temporary loan of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece could be made in exchange for antiquities that have never been seen in the UK before.
Greece had the fourth lowest inflation in the European Union in September 2023, at 2.4%.
Endy Zemenides, the Executive Director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, joins Thanos Davelis to explore the role Greece and Cyprus can play in the wake of the upheavals we’ve seen in the region.