Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday urged protesting farmers to scale down their blockades, while reaffirming that significant payments and other support would be made by the end of December.
Dawn rises slowly over the Viotia Plain, casting long shadows across the olive groves that have shaped this landscape for thousands of years. To walk among these trees is to step into a continuum older than most nations, older even than much of recorded memory.
Farmers and livestock breeders across Greece stepped up road blockades on Monday as protests spread nationwide, with unions planning new assemblies to decide their next moves.
It is not only his easy-flowing Greek that reaches the captivated audience of Catalan Hellenist and former director of the Instituto Cervantes de Atenas, Eusebi Ayensa.
Property taxation is evolving into a hot potato, both in terms of ownership and in the part of the income generated by rents.
A 12-year-old boy was killed off the eastern Aegean island of Samos after a human trafficker allegedly forced passengers to jump from a speedboat, local reports said Monday.
Forty-four years after Greece joined what was then the European Economic Community, it looks as if the €180 billion in farm subsidies fell into a giant sinkhole, failing to strengthen the primary sector or benefit the farmers, consumers and industry.
Unknown assailants targeted a police station in the central Athens district of Kypseli on Sunday evening, authorities said. No injuries were reported.
The winter holiday home market continues to hibernate for another year, heading in the opposite direction to the rest of the property sector.
More than 1,500 Greeks from across the United States and Canada attended an event in New York on Sunday aimed at encouraging skilled expatriates to return home, Greece’s Labor Ministry said.