Relentless series of tremors keeps shaking Santorini
Police cordoned off a street in the village of Oia, on the northwest tip of the island of Santorini on Wednesday.
Military base closure sparks protests in Thesprotia
Residents and officials in the region of Thesprotia is northwestern Greece are up in arms over the planned abolition of the 628th Infantry Battalion and the closure of the Second Lieutenant Vassilis Triantis military base in Filiates.
Third vote for president scheduled on Thursday
Greek lawmakers will vote for a new president in the third of four rounds on Thursday, following two failed attempts in the previous two weeks.
Schools are facing OECD scrutiny
A team of experts from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is meeting Greek education authorities and institutes and plans to visit schools and talk to teachers as part of its mission to recommend improvements.
Greek defense minister calls for EU to loosen strict defense spending limits
The European Union should abandon a “schizophrenic” approach of imposing very strict defense spending limits on its members if it’s to adequately defend its territory and achieve military self-sufficiency, Greece’s defense minister said Wednesday.
Turkey insists Erdogan, Mitsotakis to meet in April
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday that President Recdep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet in April during the next bilateral Supreme Cooperation Council.
Teachers join students in Friday’s action
The union representing teachers at public schools, OLME, threw its weight behind a protest being planned by students for the end of the week in reaction to the government’s handling of the deadly February 28, 2023 rail crash at Tempe, central Greece.
Christopher Hitchens’ influential book on Parthenon Sculpture reunification rereleased
Verso Books has announced the rerelease of Christopher Hitchens’ seminal “The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification,” described by the independent and radical publisher as an “eloquent account of a shameful piece of British imperial history.”
Monitoring of train traffic is still deficient
The Hellenic Railways’ (OSE) traffic regulator cannot follow the movement of trains in real time; the regulator is also unable to communicate with the train conductors.
Permanent increase in wages ‘a national goal’
The government will meet the target of raising the average wage to 1,500 euros and the minimum wage to €950 by the 2027 elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis asserted in a social media post on Wednesday.