A group of former residents is having something of a reunion up at the old-timey souvlaki place Palio Terma on the corner of Galatsiou Avenue and Agia Glykerias Street in the northern Athens suburb of Galatsi.
Turkey has accused Greece of imposing unlawful restrictions on fishing activities in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean beyond its territorial waters.
Lefkada MP Athanasios Kavvadas was sworn in Tuesday as Greece’s new Deputy Minister of Agriculture during a ceremony attended by President Konstantinos Tasoulas and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The children of two prominent American art collectors have voluntarily returned to Greece five Greek antiquities acquired by their parents in the 1970s and 80s, the Culture Ministry said Tuesday.
The Hellenic Armed Forces, in coordination with the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Lebanon in Athens, assisted on Tuesday in the delivery of humanitarian aid to Lebanon, as part of ongoing efforts to support the crisis-hit country.
After seven days, protesting livestock farmers hit by Greece’s first outbreak in 25 years of foot-and-mouth disease ended their blockade of the port of Mytilene on Tuesday morning, allowing passengers of the ship “Nisos Samos” from Piraeus to disembark.
The passage from Dubai through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf of Oman became an ordeal for the crew of the Celestyal Discovery, the first of five cruise ships to depart after being moored for nearly two months in ports of the United Arab Emirates, according to accounts from those on board.
Almost 60 years after April 21, 1967, when a right-wing military coup took place in Greece, establishing a seven-year dictatorship known as the “Regime of the Colonels,” the discussion about it returns with an intensity that says more about the present than about the past itself.
The military regime that governed Greece for seven years before it collapsed on July 24, 1974 relied on political and economic interests for its survival, opposition leader Nikos Androulakis said on Tuesday, marking the 59th anniversary of the coup.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to announce new support measures as soon as Wednesday, when Greek statistics agency ELSTAT is scheduled to release the data for the country’s fiscal performance for 2025, government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said Tuesday.