A new digital application for use in the judicial system will save time, enhance transparency and reduce bureaucracy, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said, following a demonstration of the digital case file system in an Athens law office.
Greece’s ADEDY umbrella civil servants’ union on Wednesday called a three-hour work stoppage in the greater Athens region for February 3, seeking reversal of substantial earnings cuts imposed more than a decade ago during the country’s financial crisis. ADEDY is also demanding salary increases.
Greek universities have entered the final stage of removing so-called “eternal” students as they begin reviewing appeals from those struck from enrollment lists.
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) chief Giorgos Saounatsos resigned on Wednesday following an investigators’ report that found an eight-hour radio outage at Greek airports last week – which forced authorities to clear the country’s airspace and divert dozens of incoming flights – was partly due to an outdated communications system.
Supermarkets took in last year over 1 billion euros more than in 2024, as their turnover reached €16.24 billion from €15.16 billion in 2024, an increase of 7.1%.
Russia on Wednesday blamed Kyiv for a drone attack on a Greek-managed oil tanker in the Black Sea, saying Ukrainian drones carried out the strike a day earlier. No further details were immediately available.
A 16-year-old high school student was hospitalized at Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital in Athens with fractured jaws following a violent incident involving six other students in Eretria, on the island of Evia.
Bulgaria’s second-largest parliamentary grouping, the reformist PP-DB, has declined a request from the president to try to form a new government, increasing the likelihood of a snap election in the European Union’s poorest member state.
A court in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday convicted a 20-year-old local man of possessing hundreds of files of child pornography, and sentenced him to six years’ imprisonment.
Several island municipalities have turned to the Interior Ministry for funding to address acute housing shortages for teachers, doctors and other public servants, following a similar initiative launched by the Municipality of Agios Vasilios in Rethymno, Crete.