Temporary closure of Maniatika metro station for installation of ticket equipment
The Maniatika metro station in Piraeus will be closed on Saturday and Sunday for the installation of electronic ticket sales equipment.
Inflation dropped to 2.9% in February, but food prices grew 6.7%
Inflation in Greece eased from 3.1% in January, ELSTAT data showed on Friday.
Mitsotakis defends university bill amid student protests
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday defended a bill allowing, under certain conditions, the establishment of branches of foreign universities in Greece for the first time, saying that reforms would have a positive knock-on effect on their public counterparts. Lawmakers are set to vote on the bill later in the day.
KKE chief stands by ‘sugar daddy’ comment amid controversy
Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the general secretary of Greece’s Communist Party (KKE), has stood by his remarks suggesting that the imposition of university tuition fees in Scandinavian universities has led young female students there to date older men for money in order to cover their educational expenses.
A top EU official visits Cyprus to inspect preparation to supply to Gaza by sea
A top European Union official is in Cyprus on Friday to inspect preparations to send desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza by sea, just hours after President Joe Biden announced that the US military will set up a temporary port off Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to support deliveries.
Scrapping cotton a ‘red line’ for Thessaly farmers
Some of the proposals for the reconstruction of Thessaly in central Greece by a Dutch team tasked with drafting a master plan, are being met with objections by locals, in particular one to ditch cotton crops.
Greece’s complete geological makeup in 330 pages
It took six decades, countless field surveys in the Greek countryside and thousands of man-hours in microbiological laboratories and on drawing boards to complete the first geological map of Greece.
Education bill to pass amid protests
Parliament on Friday is expected to approve the Education Ministry’s bill allowing, under conditions, the operation, for the first time in Greece, branches of foreign universities.
Poll finds over three-quarters of Greeks believe in ongoing Tempe coverup
An Alco poll conducted on behalf of private broadcaster Alpha showed that citizens have lost faith in Tempe investigation, and that leftist SYRIZA fell behind socialist PASOK by one percentage point.
Greece ready to roll the dice at Eurovision with Marina Satti’s ‘Zari’
Greece’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, titled “Zari,” has been officially unveiled.