Farmers escalated nationwide protests over agricultural policy this week, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressing the unrest in his weekly social media message on Sunday, a day after farmers rejected his invitation to meet at the Prime Minister’s office.
A motorcyclist was killed Saturday night in a collision with a car in the Kolonos area of central Athens.
The Athens English Comedy Club enters its seventh year as Greece’s only fully English-language comedy venue, continuing its run of stand-up shows, open mics and workshops in central Athens.
Fifteen of the 16 suspects arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to fraudulently collect EU agricultural subsidies in Crete through the state payment agency OPEKEPE were brought early Sunday to the offices of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Athens.
Greece’s retail sector is in full holiday mode as stores adopt extended Christmas hours, giving shoppers more time ahead of the New Year.
A man was wounded early Sunday after a clash escalated into an exchange of gunfire in the Menidi area of northern Athens.
Local officials across Greece are sounding the alarm over steep population losses, warning that entire regions face rapid decline unless national authorities adopt a long-term development strategy.
Greece has made significant progress in reducing the VAT gap, according to an announcement by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE).
Greece’s demographic deficit is now felt everywhere in the country – in large urban centers and the countryside. Small communities, however, are more vulnerable. There, the picture is often depressing.
A survey of Greek arts highlights how rural life has long shaped the nation’s cultural identity, from 19th-century painting and folk literature to cinema, music and television.