One man died when the van he was driving smashed into the back of a tourist bus temporarily stopped in the emergency lane of Greece’s main north-south highway near the town of Katerini, early Thursday morning.
With the June 9 European elections looming, Greek political parties are concerned about the high rate of abstention of young people aged 17-30, after an analysis of the qualitative data of the postal vote.
A fire drill dubbed Syvilla 2024, was held at the Delphi archaeological site on Wednesday, attended by the Minister Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Vasillis Kikilias and the Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed relations between Greece and the United States, the situation in the Middle East and the latest developments in Ukraine with a visiting delegation of the US Congress in Athens on Thursday.
The prosecutor at Athens’ appeals court proposed on Thursday to uphold the guilty verdicts for the two men convicted of fatally beating Zak Kostopoulos, a gay rights activist, during an altercation in a jewelry shop in downtown Athens on September 21, 2018.
Ryan Gingeras joins Thanos Davelis to discuss Turkey’s latest decision to teach the controversial Blue Homeland doctrine in Turkish schools, its wider ramifications, and explore the link between the rhetoric of conquest we’ve become used to hearing from Erdogan on the commemoration of the fall of Constantinople and policies like Blue Homeland.
At a small shrine in northern Greece, locals clutching icons of Greek Orthodox saints dance to lyres and drums in preparation for a ceremony in which they will walk on fire barefoot.
The Greek government will submit by the end of the year a regulation that would expand postal voting rights for the national elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday.
Greek parties that are described populist, anti-liberal and Eurosceptic regularly vote against EU laws brought to Parliament for approval, according to policy paper published by the Athens-based Center for Liberal Studies (KEFiM) on Thursday.
Increased temperatures of up to 31 degrees Celsius are expected in continental Greece on Friday. The weather will be mostly sunny with some local rains in Thrace and Macedonia regions.