Greece’s authority against money-laundering has issued an additional report on a farmer’s union official from Crete, as part of an investigation into an EU farm subsidies scam on the southern island, stating that he concealed a total of €8 million from tax authorities.
Police in northern Greece have broken a ring that allegedly sold hundreds of tons of cheap sunflower seed oil packaged as top-quality, award-winning olive oil in the domestic and German market, netting more than €3 million.
A 26-year-old man who had been missing since he disappeared from the suburb of Glyfada, southern Athens, on February 14, was found dead in sea off the Corinth Canal, which separates mainland Greece from the Peloponnese.
A man has been arrested in southern Greece for allegedly belonging to a ring of scammers that used the increasingly widespread home wiring fault ploy to steal well over half a million euros from vulnerable people in just weeks, police said Thursday.
The Association of Greek Air Traffic Controllers revealed on Thursday that its staff had lost contact with a radar used to direct air traffic around Athens’ international airport.
The owner of the Violanta cookie factory, where five workers died in a massive gas explosion last month, has been jailed pending trial on charges including homicide with possible intent.
Parliament will start debating legislation on Thursday that would create a diaspora electoral constituency and allow Greeks living abroad to vote by mail in parliamentary elections.
Greek tourism has entered 2026 with even more positive prospects, but also with a pressing need for structural adjustments.
Germany’s state-funded Deutsche Welle broadcaster says it will close its decades-old Greek language radio service, admired for its independent coverage during the 1967-74 dictatorship, citing budget cuts and Greece’s status as “a stable democracy with a diverse media landscape.”
New outbreaks of the sheep and goat pox epidemic that’s hammered Greek livestock breeding remained largely steady in the second week of February, authorities said Wednesday, with nearly 3,000 more animals culled.