The fallout from Sunday’s lackluster results in the European Parliament polls has intensified in the main opposition too, with a member of SYRIZA’s central committee challenging party leader Stefanos Kasselakis.
Pride month’s main event will be hosted in downtown Syntagma Square on Saturday.
Greece plans to repay bailout loans worth 8 billion euros ahead of schedule, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during an interview with Bloomberg TV on Wednesday, pointing to the country’s recovery from a crippling 10-year debt crisis.
When ethnic Greek politician Fredi Beleris was voted into the European Parliament on Sunday while jailed in Albania, supporters in his Albanian hometown lit flares and fireworks in celebration.
LA-based alternative electro-pop trio the Cannons will visit Athens on July 6 for a thumping performance at Technopolis (100 Pireos, Gazi).
US ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake on Wednesday said that the US military buildup at the northern Greek port of Alexandroupoli, just a few kilometers from the Greek-Turkish border, has nothing to do with Turkey but with the war in Ukraine.
Greek police uncovered 21 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of one million euros, concealed in a container carrying bananas at the capital’s port of Piraeus on Wednesday.
The European Commission told automakers on Wednesday it would impose extra duties of up to 38.1% on imported Chinese electric cars from July, risking retaliation from Beijing which called the move protectionist.
Greece shut the ancient Acropolis tourist site, suspended schools and stationed medics across Athens on Wednesday as it faced the first heatwave of the summer.
The firm Veneti has fully taken over ice cream maker Dodoni following the buyout, after two years, of its entire debt of 40 million euros to banks, and the purchase of all Dodoni Ice Creams stock by a foreign firm based in Cyprus.