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.
The American aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford which is currently deployed in the Middle East amid the US and Israeli war on Iran is expected to return to NATO’s naval base on Crete next week, Kathimerini understands.