A 65-year-old farmer missing since Wednesday in western Greece was found dead on Thursday, crushed by his tractor, state-run broadcaster ERT reported. The man left to do some farming in the area near Prosilia, in Aitoloakarnania, but never returned. After being reported missing, a search operation was launched with police and fire department members, with…
Students and teachers were gathering in the center of Athens on Thursday ahead of a protest against a government bill establishing private universities.
In the last 12 months, the cost of running Jean-Marie Dirat’s lamb farm in southwest France has jumped by 35,000 euros ($38,000), driven up by increasingly expensive fertilisers, fuel, electricity and pesticides.
Hundreds of farmers with 300 tractors are expected to meet Thursday in central Thessaloniki, near the iconic White Tower, to line up at the entrance to the Agrotica exhibition, to press demands for greater support of the farming sector.
Online courses at universities have also become a serious source of friction in the country’s academic institutions beleaguered by occupation. Professors at major universities who have chosen this route because their faculty is occupied by students, opposed to a government bill to institutionalize non-state universities, are being accosted by pro-occupation students and those opposed to…
PAOK vs Panathinaikos and Panetolikos vs Aris will be the pairings for the Greek Cup semifinals after the quarterfinals’ completion in midweek.
Three 15-year-old high school students from Chania, Crete, were suspended for two days for attacking a classmate last Monday. The 15-year-old victim had been targeted by some of his classmates since the beginning of the school year. On Monday, the attackers hit him and put a bag over his head, according to local news site…
When Yolanda Kalantzi and Georgia Ampatzidou fell in love eight years ago, they said the idea of getting married was “science fiction” in deeply conservative Greece, where LGBT+ couples cannot wed or adopt. Now they have a tentative wedding date for spring, tease each other about their ballooning guest list, and are already considering outfits…
Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors arrived at European Union headquarters, bent on getting their complaints about excessive costs, rules and bureaucracy heard and fixed by EU leaders at a summit Thursday.
The US State Department has given Congress the necessary assurances regarding Greece’s security in the Aegean and the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, Congressman John Sarbanes told Greek TV station Open on Wednesday. According to Sarbanes, if these assurances had not been given, the heads of the committees would not have approved the…