Tensions flared on Thursday outside the General Hospital of Drama, in northeastern Greece, ahead of a scheduled visit by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, prompting him to cancel the trip after clashes between protesters and police.
The government has planned a taxation overhaul for middle incomes, salary workers and families, and Kathimerini understands the prime minister will announce it this weekend in Thessaloniki.
Greece is treading a careful diplomatic path as it works to preserve its close relationship with Egypt while defending the Greek Orthodox identity of the historic Monastery of Saint Catherine on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The head of the embattled Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula announced on Thursday that he has launched the process for his succession, indicating that he plans to step down.
Police in Athens are investigating the circumstances under which a baby was abandoned in a supermarket cart in the central district of Koukaki late on Wednesday night.
On the popular Ionian island of Zakynthos, sewage has become a symbol of unchecked tourism and official neglect.
A fuel smuggling network that was dismantled on Sunday by Greece’s Organized Crime Unit in cooperation with the Operational Coordination Center had connections to Romania, Poland, Bulgaria and Albania.
Thessaloniki-based Anatolia College has marked an important milestone in its 139-year history after a new venture with the UK’s Open University was granted an operating license by the Greek state.
Opposition PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis demanded snap elections on Wednesday, denouncing the conservative New Democracy government as corrupt, arrogant and out of touch with citizens.
The outperformance of the economy, the increase in inbound tourism, as well as soaring rents combined with increases in the price of electricity, are behind persistent inflation.