With backing from a politician jailed for leading a party declared a criminal gang, Greek far-right groups swept up over 12% of the vote in Sunday’s election, mirroring the rise of populist and ultra-nationalist politicians across Europe.
Greek small and medium-sized enterprises have not yet managed to make up for the losses from the successive crises over the period from 2009 onward, on top of the structural problems they had before 2008.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for a European response to the issue of migration on his arrival in Brussels for the European summit on Thursday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the decision of Alexis Tsipras to resign from the leadership of SYRIZA was “expected” after his party’s poor showing in several election battles.
A fire broke out on Thursday near the village of Mortia, in the southern slope of Mount Pelion, the Fire Brigade said.
Tourism will bring the Greek economy an income of 39.2 billion euros this year, just 4% lower than the pre-pandemic high of €40.8 billion in 2019.
Eight people were arrested in Thermi, a municipality in southeastern Thessaloniki, on Thursday for environmental pollution.
Problems in the supply of electricity on non-interconnected islands have been considerable this summer after similar issues last year too.
Police arrested one man and were searching for five more believed to be members of a criminal ring that broke into luxury houses and villas on the island of Mykonos.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan congratulated Greek counterpart Giorgos Gerapetritis on assuming his duties, in a phone call on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry said on a pos on Twitter.