No maintenance of Kifissou overpass in two decades
The final section of Kifissou Avenue is not the only part of the country’s infrastructure that hasn’t been cleaned or maintained in decades.
Hit-and-run accidents snowball over summer
The number of hit-and-run incidents spiked in July and August, highlighting a bloody summer of criminal recklessness on the country’s roads.
Greek PM to meet Netanyahu in New York
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to meet Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netantayu in New York this month, according to well-informed sources, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
New cases of goat plague detected in Ilia
Fresh cases of goat plague, also known as Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), have been detected in the Vartholomio area of Ilia, southern Greece, according to reports on Wednesday.
Focus on cutting wait times for surgeries
The drop in waiting times for surgeries dominated Tuesday’s meeting convened at the Maximos Mansion by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Health Minister Adonis Georgiaidis on the National Health System (ESY).
Concern over a migration domino effect
Berlin’s decision to impose temporary controls on Germany’s land borders is eliciting strong reactions within Europe, putting the migration issue back on the EU’s agenda just months after a historic agreement to resolve it.
Kouloglou claims Kasselakis considered leaving politics, mulled media role after EU election results
Stelios Kouloglou, a former SYRIZA MEP, has claimed that main opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis considered leaving politics and even discussed a potential career change with a media executive following the party’s poor performance in the June European Parliament elections.
An American bookworm on Hydra
Josh Hickey recounts a funny scene that played out in the first year of the Hydra Book Club, a pop-up bookstore he established in 2021 on the first floor of the Hydra Historical Archive and Museum, featuring Greek and foreign books, new and used, on the island. It concerned a visit by Dakis Joannou, the…
PM attends school year opening in Glyfada, heads to Vienna for meeting with Austrian chancellor
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis visited the 2nd Primary School of Glyfada, located south of Athens, on Wednesday for the traditional blessing ceremony marking the official start of the school year.
Police investigate shooting incident in Nea Filadelfia, no injuries reported
Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Tuesday night in the Nea Filadelfia district of Athens.