The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Games has been formally handed to Italian organizers in the all-marble stadium in central Athens where the first modern Olympics were held nearly 130 years ago.
Unemployment in Greece fell to 8.2% in the third quarter of 2025, down from 9% in the same period last year, government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said Thursday.
All public and private primary and secondary schools in the Attica Basin will remain closed on Friday due to Storm Byron. Night schools in the region will also remain closed on Thursday.
Greece’s government has proposed a new operational unit to strengthen oversight of port and ship safety, Maritime Minister Vassilis Kikilias told parliament Thursday.
Farmers across Greece have intensified their protests, blocking highways and border crossings from Thessaly to Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus and western regions to demand lower production costs, overdue subsidies and compensation and support for livestock breeders affected by a recent smallpox outbreak.
Fifteen years after the outbreak of the fiscal crisis, Greece is still struggling with the shadows of the past.
An underground hotel proposal for the island of Serifos has been rejected by the Decentralized Administration of the Aegean, raising questions about large-scale tourism development on protected islands.
A member of the Greek-American diaspora has donated thousands of euros in aid for the elementary school of her ancestral village in eastern mainland Greece.
An expert in healthy aging, Andrea Maier often brings up our distant hunter-gatherer ancestors when talking about the factors that help lead to a long life.
Henri Barkey and Endy Zemenides join Thanos Davelis as we dig into a recent interview Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey, gave to Kathimerini, where he talked about Washington’s aspiration for a “new regional ordinance” and made head-scratching comments about Greek-Turkish relations and Cyprus.