The number of Covid-related deaths rose sharply in the week from September 23 to October 1, reaching 53 from 35 the week before that, according to the National Organization for Public Health (EODY).
A Thessaloniki magistrate on Thursday ordered that five suspects in the biggest drug bust ever to have taken place in the northern port city be held in custody until their trial.
Greece’s ambitious armaments procurement program reached another milestone Wednesday with the official launch of the frigate Kimon at Lorient, France.
The Columbia Global Center in Athens, an initiative launched by the respected American university in Greece in November 2022, will be headed by Dr. Theoklis Zaoutis, a physician and researcher and most recently the president of Greece’s National Public Health Organization (EODY).
A 65-year-old woman was handed an 11-month prison sentence on Thursday for assaulting a police officer citing her for a parking offense in Halkidiki, northern Greece.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday said that he plans to seek an increase in the European Union budget for migration and asylum so that frontline countries receive more support, as well as for initiatives aimed at helping member-states deal with the impact of climate change.
European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski said on Thursday that the damage caused in central Greece by two major storms over the last month was “beyond what I had imagined.”
Twenty five olive oil producers who stored their production in an agricultural cooperative in Polygyros, northern Greece, from where it recently disappeared have filed criminal charges against unknown persons with the security police asking authorities to investigate how this happened and who is behind it.
Nicosia is expected to announce measures to alleviate the impact of inflation by end-October, while in early 2024 the Cypriot government plans to implement the new green tax on fuel, together with compensatory measures, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said while handing over the 2024 state budget to Parliament Speaker Annita Demetriou.
Heatwaves around the Mediterranean – from Spain to Greece – have damaged olive harvests, with recent reports indicating that Europe has almost run out of local olive oil supplies.