Alexis Tsipras’ call informing her about the 2015 referendum “was the most surprising phone call of my political career” and left her “speechless,” Angela Merkel has said.
Authorities have arrested two individuals in connection with a series of thefts in the areas of Megara and Nea Peramos, west of Athens.
The refugee issue had become so “dramatic” in Greece and the European Union that it necessitated a deal being done with Turkey in 2016 that she does not regret, former German chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
An informal five-party meeting on the Cyprus issue will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York in mid-July, UN Secretary-General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric announced during a press briefing.
US President Donald Trump is an attention seeker who yearns the limelight, former German chancellor Angela Merkel has said, recalling how he did not shake her hand at a meeting in the Oval Office in March 2017 but that he did so outside the room.
A wildfire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in a forested area of the Vourvourou region in Halkidiki, northern Greece, prompting a swift response from firefighting teams on the ground and in the air, working intensively to bring the blaze under control.
The OPEKEPE affair is “a scandal of immense proportions” that is “clearly tied” to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, opposition SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos has told Parliament.
A 45-year-old man was arrested on the island Salamina on Monday evening after having been sentenced to seven years in prison for committing lewd acts against a 12-year-old girl in Syros on May 30, 2024.
Athens’ public transport authority OASA has announced which metro, tram and bus routes will operate around the clock on Saturday in a trial to expand late-night public transport.
The Piraeus suburb of Nikaia was home to the Greek capital’s first souvlaki joint, opened in 1924 by Isaac Meraklidis. An Armenian refugee fleeing from Adana in Turkey during the Asia Minor Catastrophe, he came to the country armed with a recipe for kebab and a no-frills concept: chargrilled minced lamb patties in a pita…