If something positive can be drawn from the great environmental disaster of the previous week it is the attitude of the largest opposition parties, which refrained from criticizing the government while firefighters were battling the blaze. Their decision to postpone criticism and assigning blame is a sign of political maturity. It is the realization that…
A detached house in the northern suburb of Athens, surrounded by pine trees. This has been the dream for Athenians for years, spurring a wave of intra-city migration of the middle classes, who were looking for better living conditions than those that had prevailed in the saturated center of the capital.
A bold yet simple proposal for radically improving the quality of life in downtown Athens has been on Athens Mayor Haris Doukas’ desk for the past few days, awaiting his perusal. What it suggests, in short, is to partially rid central Syntagma Square from the bane of traffic. As anyone who […]
A Turkish maritime patrol aircraft ATR-72 and a Turkish helicopter violated the Greek airspace on Wednesday as they entered Athens FIR today without submitting a flight plan.
Tensions within the main opposition party SYRIZA between President Stefanos Kasselakis and prominent party officials continued to escalate during the political secretariat meeting on Wednesday, which was marked by walkouts and leadership challenges.
Valentini Papaioannou did not know what to expect as she returned to her home in Palaia Penteli, northeast of Athens, on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 13. Everything had happened so fast when she’d left it 30 hours earlier with her husband and their 2-year-old son, running away from a wildfire […]
Officers of the Municipality of Athens and the Hellenic Police removed the tents of two homeless people who lived in the archaeological site of Philopappou Hill next to the Acropolis for three years.
US Senator for Maryland Chris Van Hollen, on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, met with members of the Greek American community in Chicago, including prominent Greek Americans such as Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and businessman Ted Diamantis.
A Greek-flagged oil tanker carrying 150,000 tonnes of crude that was evacuated by its crew after being attacked in the Red Sea now poses an environmental hazard, the EU’s Red Sea naval mission “Aspides” said on Thursday.
Greek authorities on the island of Rhodes are searching for a British tourist who went missing on Wednesday after going for a swim.