A New Democracy MEP who earlier this month said she would not be contesting in the upcoming European Parliament elections following allegations that she violated data protection regulations by sending a mass email to Greek voters living overseas has said that she received the email addresses from a party colleague in late January 2024.
Ruling New Democracy has expelled a former MP for comments he made concerning the 2023 Tempe railway disaster in which 57 people, mostly university students, died.
A ferry on route from Marmari in Evia to Rafina in eastern Attica had to return to port after experiencing a power outage.
An organisation representing young LGBTQ people in Athens has condemned an attack on its offices, blaming it on the youth wing of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group.
A London court has ordered a former curator at the British Museum accused of stealing hundreds of artefacts to provide the museum with a list of all items he is suspected of taking and to return those still in his possession.
With his call for the next European and general elections to be overseen by international observers, the leader of the main opposition party is “consciously undermining the state, fifty years after the restoration of democracy,” the government spokesman has said.
An Athens male bus driver accused of attempted rape by a female passenger has been released on the condition that he report to his local police station once a month after testifying before an investigating magistrate.
Socialist PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis has submitted a no-confidence vote in the government, following a newspaper report alleging that evidence from the Tempe railway disaster was tampered with.
The Education Ministry is launching an inquiry into a downtown Athens school where a student and the principal were attacked on Tuesday by the brother of another pupil, state broadcaster ERT has reported.
Farmers threw beets and sprayed manure at police on Tuesday as hundreds of tractors again sealed off streets close to the European Union headquarters, where agriculture ministers sought to ease a crisis that has led to months of protests across the 27-member bloc.