The European Central Bank is “most likely” to cut interest rates just three times this year as stronger-than-expected economic growth supports inflation, ECB policymaker Yannis Stournaras has said.
North Macedonia will vote on May 8 in parliamentary elections in which support for the opposition has been buoyed by frustration about the failure to join the EU, falling living standards and alleged corruption.
A wildfire broke out in low vegetation in Viotia, northwest of Athens, on Friday.
Easter and its central message of the resurrection “serves as the motivation for the struggle against the presence of evil and its consequences in the world, acting as a powerful transformative force,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has said in his Easter encyclical.
A 25-year-old man was arrested in the city of Larisa, central Greece, on Friday after he was spotted walking naked in the town center, local media reported.
A boat with 33 migrants on board was located by a cargo ship off the southern coast of Crete early Friday morning.
An 85-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki on Thursday evening for shooting a dog.
The French Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, arrived at NATO pier K14 at Marathi, in Souda (Crete) on Thursday.
A total of 18 ferries were scheduled to depart from the port of Piraeus on full capacity for the Aegean islands and 32 for the islands of the Argosaronic Gulf on Friday, as the last of Easter travelers depart from Athens.
Meteora is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that everyone should visit at least once in their lifetime, especially during Easter.