The Greek government plans to introduce a legislative provision aimed at blocking the Greek National Party (Ellines), a far-right party founded by former MP Ilias Kasidiaris, from participating in the upcoming elections. On Thursday, government spokesperson Ioannis Oikonomou announced that this provision would be added to the final bill to be voted on before Parliament…
A project is under way to make a total of 287 beaches across Greece fully accessible to people with mobility problems, including by installing the Greek-designed Seatrac system for wheelchairs.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to attend an event on Friday to discuss the three-year progress of the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB) and its future plans. The event will take place at 10.00 in the morning.
The controversy surrounding the closure of Athens’ historic Ideal and Astor cinemas has reignited a larger debate on the often-miserable state of the city center, and particularly the area between Omonia and Syntagma squares.
The decline in supermarket sales volume has continued unabated in 2023, with data from market research firms showing that this drop reached 1.7% in the first quarter of the year.
ΟΝΕΧ will distribute 1.8 million euros as financial support to workers at Elefsis Shipyards ahead of the Easter holidays, covering 30% of the previous ownership’s debt to workers, Chairman and CEO Panos Xenocostas said in a letter.
Turkey’s defense minister told his US counterpart that Finland’s new NATO membership showed its support for enlargement and that it hoped Sweden would fulfil commitments under its own bid as soon as possible, Ankara said on Thursday.
Greece will continue to supply Ukraine with ammunition of all kinds but has refused the invaded country’s request to send any of its Soviet- and Russian-made air defense missile-systems (S-300, TOR-M1 and OSA-AK).
There is no end in sight to the hassle of Athens commuters, as bus and trolley bus drivers in the Greek capital will be walking off the job for a fifth straight day on Friday.
Albanian tourist revenues in Greece rose spectacularly by 157% last year compared to 2021 and by 33% compared to 2019, Greek Deputy Minister for Tourism Sofia Zacharaki said after attending “The Future of Environmental Sustainable Tourism in Albania” (FESTA) forum in Tirana on April 3-5.