Category Archives: Latest Greek news

D-Marin undertakes the marina at Pylos

Premium marina group D-Marin has announced it is undertaking the management and operation of the marina at Pylos in the southwestern Peloponnese for the next 40 years.

The cost of housing

All available data shows that real estate prices, mainly in Greece’s urban centers, are rising fast. The problem is not just here in this country, but the cost of housing in relation to income is much worse in Greece than in the rest of Europe. For obvious social reasons, the government has to come up…

Fighting over domestic – not foreign – policy

It’s a somewhat unusual yet positive development for the country: Despite the toxicity and the bitter clashes on almost every domestic policy issue one can think of, which will intensify as we get closer to the general elections in May, for the first time in many years there is broad consensus on the country’s geopolitical…

Eldorado Gold completes funding deal for Skouries

Eldorado Gold Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary Hellas Gold announced on Wednesday they had completed the 680-million-euro financing for the development of the Skouries project in northern Greece.

Nine poll battle grounds

Single-seat constituencies will be an important battleground in Greece’s May 21 parliamentary election, both main parties believe. On the basis of the latest census data, two regional units lost their second parliament seat, raising the number of single-seat constituencies from seven to nine.

Reforms with a marginal majority?

If you win the election, you get the state – that’s the rule in Greece. The state is the winner’s prize. Hence politicians’ worship of absolute majority governments and their abhorrence of coalitions: The victor does not want to share the spoils with anyone else and prefers to reap the benefits arising from his power…

Parents show keen interest in model public schools

More than 20,000 applications were submitted for 4,442 places in the 2023-2024 academic year at Greece’s public model and experimental schools, an old institution expanded in 2011, all but abolished by the leftist-led SYRIZA government in 2015, and reinstated by center-right New Democracy in 2019.

Greek and German defence systems industries present their collaboration

The strategic collaboration of Greece’s Hellenic Defence Systems (EAS) and Germany’s Ηeckler & Koch (ΗΚ) was presented at an event held on Thursday.

Schools to be supplied with 36,000 interactive whiteboards

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday visited the 7th primary school of Agioi Anargiroi, which has been equipped with new interactive teaching boards. The prime minister went through the classrooms and talked to the children and teachers, while he watched the interactive learning system in the fifth grade of the school.

Greece to send more arms to Ukraine, but sets limits

Greece has pledged military assistance to Ukraine for “as long as it takes” but officials cautioned that the country needs to keep much of its Russian-made weaponry for its own defensive needs.