The European Commission has approved an advance payment of 25.3 million euros to Greece “to ease the financial burden of reconstruction efforts” following Storm Daniel in September 2023.
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries, a new report has revealed. Nearly half of them, or 49%, are living in Israel; 18% are in Western Europe, 16% in the United States, and 12% in countries of the former Soviet Union. Some 300 survivors…
The Greek branch of an international dairy cooperative is being slapped with a 561,000-euro fine for inflated pricing, including on baby formula, that violates market rules aimed at curbing profiteering, the Development Ministry said. Inspections conducted by the Interagency for Market Control Unit (DIMEA) found that FrieslandCampina Hellas SA is in violation of Article 54…
The birth allowance is increasing permanently and retroactively by 400 to 1,500 euros for births that took place from January last year, depending on the number of children.
The government is looking for ways to defuse Greece’s demographic ticking time bomb.
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday issued a scathing decision against Greece, rapping authorities for breaches of privacy, medical procedure and judicial due process, over a Health Ministry campaign in the spring of 2012 to name and shame sex workers who were found to be HIV positive after being forcibly tested for the…
On Monday Greece introduced a bill that would allow for voting by mail. Tom Ellis, the editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English edition, joins Thanos Davelis to look into this latest step by the Mitsotakis government, and break down what it could mean for Greek democracy and for diaspora Greeks.
In a renewed bid to clamp down on violence at soccer games, police in Cyprus said Monday they will step up security screening of fans at stadium entrances, shutter team supporter clubs if necessary and call for matches to either be canceled or halted if safety is compromised.
Teachers at Greece’s public schools on Tuesday announced another walkout as part of ongoing actions against the government’s planned educational reforms. The three-hour work stoppage will take place on Thursday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
The Environment Ministry has presented its legislative proposals for construction outside designated zoning areas to the cabinet. Although the text of the draft law has not been disclosed, there is a prevailing impression that it aims to facilitate off-plan building activity.