Amenra | Athens | November 23
Belgian post-metal band Amenra will return to Athens at Floyd (117 Pireos) as part of their European tour supporting their latest album, “De Doorn.”
Farmers receive €153 mln in EU subsidies, ministry says
Greece’s agricultural payment authority, OPEKEPE, has distributed 153 million euros in European Union agricultural aid since September, the Rural Development Ministry announced Wednesday.
EU fraud probe delays farm payments
A surprise raid by European Union anti-fraud investigators has delayed overdue agricultural subsidy payments to Greek farmers, continuing fallout from a corruption scandal at the nation’s farm payments agency.
Tensions flare at Athens hospital during Mitsotakis visit
Tensions flared Wednesday morning at Attikon General University Hospital in western Athens during a visit by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis to inaugurate the hospital’s renovated emergency departments funded through the EU’s recovery fund.
Greece ranks sixth in global passport power index
Greece ranks sixth among the world’s most powerful passports in the latest Henley Passport Index, providing visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 186 destinations.
One in six Greek CT scans unneeded, study shows
One in six CT scans in Greece are performed without medical justification, according to a European study published in European Radiology under the EU-funded project EU-JUST-CT.
Inside Greece’s 2026 budget
Yiannis Mouzakis, co-founder of Macropolis.gr, joins Thanos Davelis as we dig into Greece’s 2026 budget, a budget that foresees a jump in spending, growth for the economy, and a drop in Greece’s debt.
Teens for Democracy pushes to amplify youth voices in politics
Teens for Democracy was co-founded in 2021 by Ines Saltiel, now a student at Brown University, and Alexia Papageorgiou, now at Stanford, with the aim of increasing youth participation in democratic processes. Noting that most political systems are dominated by older generations, they wanted to address the age imbalance in policy making and promote early…
PM inaugurates new oncology center at Attikon Hospital
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday inaugurated the “Athina I. Martinou” oncology center at Attikon General University Hospital, joined by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis and Deputy Health Minister Marios Themistocleous.
Lawmakers in fervent clash over 13-hour workday
Tensions flared in Parliament Tuesday as lawmakers clashed over the government’s labor reform bill, which is set for a vote Thursday morning.