Farmers protesting delayed EU subsidy payments and other grievances blocked the Tempe tunnel complex on the Athens-Thessaloniki highway on Monday, continuing their mobilizations for a fourth consecutive week.
Even as the ruling conservative New Democracy triumphed in back-to-back national elections in 2023, more than doubling the score of its nearest rival, farmers stood out for the overwhelming support they provided.
Another 60 migrants were rescued off Greece’s southernmost island of Gavdos in the early hours of Monday, authorities said. They were transferred to the port of Paleochora on the larger, nearby island of Crete.
It’s been nearly four years since the Greek government ultimately decided – after lengthy negotiations, several changes of course and considerable behind-the-scenes tensions – to purchase three French-designed and -built frigates, the FDI class, also known until then as the Belharra.
Farmers protesting delayed EU subsidy payments and other grievances continued their mobilizations for a fourth consecutive week on Monday.
Soprano Christina Petrou recently delighted audiences in the Netherlands with a performance of Greek Christmas carols during a concert with the Johann Strauss Orchestra, conducted by Dutch maestro André Rieu.
Authorities have released the first results from a pilot rollout of artificial intelligence-powered traffic cameras in the greater Athens area, showing more than 2,000 serious traffic violations recorded in just four days.
Motorists in Athens whose vehicle license plates were confiscated by the city’s municipal police will be able to reclaim them starting on Monday, city authorities said, in a move aimed at easing travel during the Christmas holiday period.
When residents of Artemidos Street in the downtown district of Psyrri saw a construction site being set up in a site with two listed buildings on the corner with Ermou Street, they discovered that authorities had allowed contractors to add two floors to the first and three to the second.
A high school teacher from the town of Serres is northern Greece is expected to appear before an investigative magistrate on Monday to respond to accusations that he molested a pupil, police said.