Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has described France’s active engagement in developments in the East Mediterranean as “very important”, while expressing confidence that a regional partnership involving Greece, France, Cyprus and Lebanon will continue as “our interests in the wider region fully align.”
Police have arrested two health service officials on Crete for allegedly blackmailing shopkeepers and accepting bribes in exchange for skipping sanitary inspections.
Greece’s GDP per capita was 70% of the European Union average in 2024 in purchasing power parity terms.
The parliamentary investigative committee examining former minister Christos Triantopoulos’ role in the handling of the Tempe disaster site will reconvene for the last time on Monday, April 7, to refer Triantopoulos to the judiciary. This decision was made during the committee’s session on Friday.
Copies of three videos delivered early last month to investigating authorities by Interstar Security, the company responsible for the security and video surveillance of Greece’s railway network, are genuine and allegedly depict a freight train shortly before its fatal collision with a passenger train in Tempe, central Greece, just over two years ago, the Criminal…
The first indications from arrivals and receipts this year are particularly optimistic for tourism.
A crowd participates in a protest gathering outside the National Gallery, defending artistic freedom, following a call by the Panhellenic Federation of Spectacle and Auditory Arts (POThA) on Thursday.
Cyprus has a “nimble and dynamic economy” that should grow about 2.5% this year, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, while it added that the island should resist any temptation to loosen fiscal policy.
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni conducted an on-site inspection at the Panathenaic Stadium (also known as the Kallimarmaro) on Friday following media reports describing a temporary structure in front of the historic site as a “monstrosity.”
Any fiscal space created through the fight against tax evasion and the European agreement on defense spending should be directed toward policies that enhance the productive capacity of the Greek economy, such as reducing the tax burden on wage labor, according to a regular report from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) published on Thursday.