Leap in tourism spending
Visa card transactions show tourists spend much more than what the central bank records.
Visa card transactions show tourists spend much more than what the central bank records.
Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) outlined key security challenges in its annual report for 2023-24, focusing on the effects of global conflicts, cyberattacks, and organized crime.
Britain will provide intelligence to a newly formed unit in Cyprus tasked with preventing Russia evade international sanctions, according to an agreement Tuesday following talks between visiting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Cypriot counterpart.
About 9,500 forest fires, including one on the outskirts of Athens, consumed nearly 44,500 hectares of land this year, Greece’s hottest and driest on record, an official said on Tuesday.
Fourna, home to 180 people and hidden in the fir-tree covered mountains of central Greece, is a vanishing village that is determined to keep its place on the map.
The government has reversed a controversial decision to move the National Observatory of Athens under the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection.
The naturalization process for long-term foreign residents in Greece remains a drawn-out and challenging ordeal, despite the introduction of nationwide exams in 2021.
Rebel forces have swept through Syria and forced former President Bashar Assad out of the country where his family had ruled with an iron fist since the early 1970s.
US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former prosecutor, Fox News TV host and steadfast supporter, to be the new Ambassador to Greece, several media have reported.
The year 2025 is shaping up to be pivotal for the long-delayed liquefied natural gas terminal project in Vasilikos.