Farmers across Greece dug in their heels on Thursday, continuing their blockades of major highways and expanding rallies from Thessaly to Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus and western regions as the number of tractors on the roads continued to grow.
The driver of a Public Power Corporation (PPC) bus died on Thursday morning after suffering a heart attack en route to a plant in Kozani, northern Greece.
Besides the good weather, the delicious food and the unique flavors, Greece also offers something else: a pension that appears even 20% higher for Northern European retirees.
A Greek Coast Guard officer has been accused of buying heroin from a 49-year-old suspected drug dealer who was arrested in Athens on Tuesday and is under investigation for possible links to a wider narcotics network.
Grid operator DEDDIE is installing smart meters that are actually not smart enough to take Greece into the era of dynamic tariffs.
Turkey’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday construction work had started on its first indigenous submarine (MILDEN), adding that Ankara had also completed its first sale of a corvette warship to a NATO ally by inking an agreement with Romania.
The government of the Republic of Cyprus, often in cooperation with that of Greece, is standing in the way of deepening ties between Turkey and the European Union, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras returned to the public stage Wednesday at Athens’ Pallas Theater, launching his new book “Ithaca” in an event that marked his attempt to reassert his political narrative, blending self-criticism with calls for unity and signaling renewed ambition for Greece’s progressive movement.
The trial of 24 Greek and foreign former aid workers accused of migrant smuggling and other serious criminal offenses is slated to start on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Thursday, in a case that is being closely watched by human rights defenders around the world.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis broke his silence on the farmers’ crisis on Wednesday, acknowledging their frustration over payment delays while warning against “extreme actions.”