The discussion has been ongoing for some time now. It started right after the first Covid lockdown was lifted, in reaction to the leap in the price of ferry and airline tickets, as well as in the cost of accommodation, which together suddenly pushed a significant section of the Greek population onto the sidelines.
A major legislative intervention, which is expected to release tens of thousands of “frozen” home sales, is currently being promoted by the Digital Governance Ministry.
Water stocks in the reservoirs of Public Power Corporation’s hydroelectric units are at their lowest levels since 2017 due to minimal snowfall last winter.
Companies are now making toys not for children but for grown-ups.
A dot on he map southeast of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea, the uninhabited islet of Formikoula was an important haven for the endangered Mediterranean monk seal, for loggerhead turtles and for myriad seabirds, thanks to its craggy landscape and caves.
Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece performs on the rings during the men’s artistic gymnastics qualification round at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, on Saturday.
Armed with selfie sticks and phones, the tourists flood into Santorini from everywhere – on dinghies from giant ocean liners, on coaches that zigzag up the steep hillsides, atop donkeys that clip-clop along the narrow cobbled streets.
The UK remains committed to a Cyprus peace deal “under UN parameters,” but “ultimately, it is for the key parties to decide on the details of a settlement,” Stephen Doughty, the newly appointed minister of state in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, told Kathimerini on the sidelines of his visit to Athens this week.
A fragmented opposition, with left-wing SYRIZA and socialist PASOK close together in a contest for second place, was the saving grace for ruling center-right New Democracy after dropping more than 12 percentage points in June’s European Parliament election.