Supported living homes integrate residents into community life
ESTIA, a Greek charity founded in 1982, operates supported living homes for 85 people with intellectual disabilities in the Athens suburbs.
Competition watchdog raids electricity companies over suspected market manipulation
The Hellenic Competition Commission has carried out dawn raids on electricity production and wholesale supply companies as part of an ongoing investigation into potential anti-competitive practices in Greece’s energy market.
ESEE urges EU action as ECOFIN, French case against Shein highlight fair-competition gaps
The Hellenic Confederation of Commerce (ESEE) is urging European leaders to step up their response to unfair competition, pointing to the December 12 ECOFIN meeting and France’s legal case against Chinese online retailer Shein, which seeks a three-month suspension of the platform under national digital-economy rules.
Court summons ten new witnesses in wiretapping trial
An Athens single-member Misdemeanor Court has ordered ten additional individuals to testify in the ongoing trial over the wiretapping and malicious-software case, following new information that emerged from earlier witness examinations. Most of the ten had never been summoned at any previous stage of the investigation.
Standing for justice: Serbia’s grieving mother
The time is 11.52 a.m. Residents, students, even drivers step out of their cars and stand motionless at a Belgrade intersection, observing 16 minutes of silence – one minute for each life lost.
Turkish ruling party spokesperson attacks Cyprus, EU ahead of EU presidency
Omer Celik, spokesperson for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has sharply criticized the Republic of Cyprus and the European Union, reacting to information that Nicosia plans to advance a broader Mediterranean-focused agenda when it assumes the rotating EU Council Presidency on 1 January 2026.
Gov’t foreign and defense council approves armament programs
The Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), the state’s highest decision-making body on foreign and defense policy, has approved new armament programs for the Armed Forces, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis has said.
Bus driver hospitalized after early-morning attack
A bus driver in Athens was violently assaulted early Tuesday morning after an alleged road-rage incident sparked by a missed turn signal.
Guilty verdict in case of murdered surveyor
An Athens court has found two men guilty of murdering 54-year-old surveyor Panagiotis Stathis in the suburb of Neo Psychiko in July 2024.
Supreme Court prosecutor orders intervention in offenses linked to farmers’ protests
Supreme Court prosecutor Konstantinos Tzavellas has instructed prosecutors to intervene in cases where offenses that the law requires authorities to prosecute ex officio – that is, automatically, even without a complaint from a victim – are committed during the farmers’ protests across the country.