Government officials on Monday presented details of draft legislation that would allow Greeks living abroad to vote by mail in forthcoming national elections, choosing three members of the diaspora to represent them in Greece’s parliament.
A little over €1.19 million in undue payments has been recovered since the incorporation of the scandal-battered OPEKEPE farm subsidies agency in Greece’s independent tax authority in December 2025, the government said Monday.
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will travel to New York Tuesday for a visit that will include a meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
President Konstantinos Tasoulas is meeting with former prime ministers in an initiative aimed at reducing toxic political polarization and fostering dialogue among opposing factions.
Greek airports are in need of protection measures against drones of any type.
The Trikala Labor Center decided to hold a protest in the afternoon and a 24-hour strike on Tuesday to condemn a factory fire that left five workers dead.
Investigators from the Fire Service’s Arson Crimes Directorate (DAEE) were at the Violanta cookie factory near the central Greek city of Trikala on Monday following an early-morning explosion that killed at least four workers and left one person unaccounted for.
Tax evasion contained by some €6.5 billion since 2024 thanks to digital transactions.
Three men aged 76, 60 and 55, including the owner of a long-established grill shop in the Piraeus area, have been arrested on charges of drug possession and trafficking in central Athens and Piraeus, authorities announced.
Police have arrested a 16-year-old high school student allegedly found with three knives in his bag at a school in southern Athens, state ERT television said Monday.