The center-right government will table legislation “within weeks” to ban social media access in Greece to children aged under 15, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis insisted Tuesday, saying the platforms pose a threat to young people’s mental health.
A Three-Member Misdemeanor Court of Thessaloniki imposed on Tuesday a two-year suspended prison sentence on a 23-year-old woman who was the passenger in a car that caused a fatal hit-and-run incident in Thessaloniki, in November 2022.
Greece does not back any separate deals that would allow ships to enter and exit the Strait of Hormuz but wants a durable solution to safeguard peace in the region, its Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said on Tuesday.
Greek employees report just 0.2 weeks of sick leave per year compared with a European average of 2.62 weeks, while productivity continues to lag behind other European Union countries.
A fragment of an intercepted Iranian missile fell in several areas of Jerusalem on Monday, including on a rooftop near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City, Israel said.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday said that Europe should prepare short- and long-term measures to support consumers and businesses as energy prices soar due to conflict in Middle East.
Opposition parties attached asterisks on Monday to a sweeping multibillion-euro defense package anchored by a new multilayered air defense system dubbed Achilles’ Shield, with only the ruling party offering unqualified support.
Doctors and hospital staff in the public health system will hold a nationwide strike on Wednesday, the Federation of Hospital Doctors’ Unions (OENGE) said.
Police have identified nine minors as the perpetrators of two incidents of damage to school units in a district east of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, in 2025.