Brussels unaware of move to stop organic farm funds
The European Commission appears to have been unaware of the Greek Agriculture Ministry’s decision to pull the plug on the 2024 subsidy program for organic farming.
The European Commission appears to have been unaware of the Greek Agriculture Ministry’s decision to pull the plug on the 2024 subsidy program for organic farming.
A new campaign to increase the number of organ donors in Greece already seems to be paying off, with some 7,000 people having registering on the relevant database within a week, after receiving one of the 5.5 million emails sent by the Health Ministry drumming up interest.
Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Dimas said that the last 10 kilometres of the Patras-Pyrgos Motorway in the Peloponesse will be delivered on November 30.
A 5-year-old child drowned in a hotel pool on the island of Santorini on Saturday, local media reported.
“I saw all these emails from Greece,” says John Martinis, who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics this week. “And I thought, did I do something wrong?” he adds with a quip. That was his first reaction when Greek journalists started contacting him, assuming he had Greek roots.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, who is visiting Greece on Monday, is expected to renew pressure on the government to drop its objections regarding Turkey’s participation in the European Union’s €150 billion Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program designed to boost investment in defense industries.
The first confirmed wolf dog hybrid in Greece has been identified through genetic testing, according to researchers from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Proudly Palestinian, Taybeh’s Christians – Catholics of the Roman and Greek Melkite rites, and Greek Orthodox – long most for independence and peace for this part of the Holy Land.
A sheep pox outbreak is affecting one in three livestock units in the Imathia region of northern Greece, with 37 out of 89 total units reporting cases of the disease, according to a report by public broadcaster ERT.
The tax authorities have emailed vehicle owners who either do not have their cars or motorcycles insured or have not paid their road tax.