The draft state budget for 2026 foresees a spending jump of 5.074 billion euros compared to 2025, driven mainly by the investment spending of the Recovery and Resilience Fund, which ends next August, and the pressure to fully absorb the available resources will be great.
The total number of passengers transported through Athens Airport in the first nine months of 2025 amounted to 26.19 million.
The Healthy Ministry is launching a nationwide push for organ-donor registrations, with thousands of emails being sent out via the IDIKA platform to adult residents of Greece.
The Education Ministry is rolling out a digital platform allowing parents to track the status of their child’s application for special classroom support at state evaluation centers, known as KEDASY, after a surge in requests has led to assessment delays.
Three young men pretending to be members of the police force were arrested in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, when they unwittingly attempted to pull over an off-duty police officer.
Solid growth, with GDP expanding above 2% in 2026, as well as a strong fiscal performance and a dip in the debt below 140% of GDP in the same year, will be the main elements of the 2026 draft budget.
The further development of the Aktor group in the concessions sector, as well as in renewable energy sources, is the primary goal of management goal, chairman and chief executive Alexandros Exarchou said.
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras resigned from Parliament Monday, further fueling speculation about his founding a new political party.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Patriarchate officials are optimistic that the Theological School of Halki, shuttered by the Turkish government in 1971, will open sooner rather than later.