Greece’s public sector union ADEDY on Friday announced a 24-hour nationwide strike for December 16, the day Parliament is scheduled to vote on the 2026 state budget, while expressing full solidarity with farmers staging nationwide protests.
As farmers protesting delayed aid payments staged a blockade at Thessaloniki port in northern Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday invited them for dialogue to resolve the impasse.
Turkey and the United States are discussing the US sanctions and obstacles to Ankara rejoining the F-35 jet program but nothing has changed with respect to its possession of Russian S-400 air defenses, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Farmers and livestock breeders from across Greece drove tractors, agricultural vehicles and tourist buses to Thessaloniki port on Friday as part of a nationwide protest against delays in farm aid payments and rising production costs.
Delays continue in the project to upgrade 14 trains on the ISAP electric railway, also known as Line 1 of the Athens Metro, which runs between Piraeus in the south and Kifissia in the north.
Greece will contribute €20 million to the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL), a NATO- and US-developed mechanism to coordinate and fund Kyiv’s most urgent battlefield needs, Kathimerini has learned.
Greece’s economy grew faster than the eurozone in the third quarter 2025, although its real gross domestic product remained 14.8% below its second-quarter-2007 peak, Eurobank said on Thursday.
Authorities have arrested a 42-year-old man suspected of posting threatening and abusive messages online against Thessaloniki Mayor Stelios Angeloudis.
Police on Friday launched an investigation into a new case of alleged fraudulent farm subsidies on the southern island of Crete involving the country’s beleaguered farm-payment agency OPEKEPE.
In an atmosphere described as chaotic and dismissive of parliamentary procedure, Greece’s investigative committee wrapped up a nearly nine-hour session late Thursday, concluding the examination of Giorgos Xylouris, widely known as “Frapes,” over his alleged involvement in the OPEKEPE case.