Does anyone remember that guy from Kalamata in the Peloponnese who was found in late 2000 to have received 1.5 million drachmas in subsidies from the European Union to produce olive oil in an environmentally friendly way, without using any chemicals?
Greeks over the age of 40 may remember the early 1990s push out of central Athens and into the suburbs.
A 39-year-old man has been arrested in Athens after police discovered a cocaine processing and packaging lab at his residence.
The European Commission said on Saturday that it “strongly” regrets an announced increase of US tariffs on steel imports and that the EU is prepared to impose countermeasures.
Greece has made a titanic effort to shake off the stigma of the problem child in the European family. Progress was achieved with painful sacrifices by all Greeks.
Customs officials at the Kipoi border crossing between Greece and Turkey have intercepted a truck carrying nearly 2.5 million smuggled cigarettes destined for Germany, marking the largest such seizure in Greece this year.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through central Athens on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
A child was injured in a hit-and-run accident in Patra, western Greece, on Saturday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle while riding a scooter. The driver fled the scene and remains at large.
An 87-year-old man fatally shot his 85-year-old wife, a hospitalized cancer patient, before turning the gun on himself at Crete’s Rethymno General Hospital on Saturday morning.