Policy shift to bridge gap with Gen Z
Ruling New Democracy is launching a push to win back support from young voters after seeing record-low approval among people ages 18 to 30.
Snow-measuring station on Crete mountain bulldozed
A snow measurement station on Crete’s Lefka (White) Mountains has been bulldozed, the research director of the Meteo meteorological service has said.
The Church’s most precious treasure
A particularly cynical friend claims that churches are a bit like the largest and oldest multinationals in the world. It is truly impressive how the great churches endure over the centuries, have “branches” all over the planet, overcome famines, wars and disasters.
Mitsotakis congratulates Spanoulis on Greece’s EuroBasket bronze
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke by phone on Monday afternoon with the national basketball team’s coach, Vassilis Spanoulis, to congratulate him on winning third place at EuroBasket 2025.
EPPO seizes 2,435 containers in Piraeus amid EU customs fraud probe
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) announced on Monday that since June it has seized 2,435 containers at the port of Piraeus in connection with an EU customs fraud case.
Does Europe have the stomach?
The omens could not have been worse for the European Union: A few hours before Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented her State of the Union speech, Russian military drones violated the airspace of Poland, a member of both the EU and NATO, which borders Ukraine.
Forever Fish | Athens | September 17 – November 2
The Breeder Gallery (45 Iasonos) presents “Forever Fish,” a solo exhibition by visual artist Aristeidis Lappas.
Assets frozen as EU prosecutor probes Semertzidou in farm subsidy case
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has received a report from Greece’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority concerning alleged misuse of agricultural subsidies by former New Democracy official Kalliopi Semertzidou, her partner and family members.
School closures a warning about Greece’s demographic crisis
Eleni Varvitstioti, the Financial Times correspondent for Greece and Cyprus, joins Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at Greece’s decision to close more than 750 schools as a sharp decline in births has left them without enough students, a story that highlights the broader demographic challenge facing Greece.
Is this a country for young people?
“Life can only be understood by looking back,” Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once wrote, and looking back on my own life I realize how lucky my generation was, growing up in the 1970s and 80s to have lived in a more peaceful, safer, and more optimistic era than the present.