Greece’s general elections will be held on May 21, the country’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday. “The general elections will be held at the end of the (government’s) four-year term, as I had [Read More]
The minimum monthly wage in Greece will be increased to 780 euros (830 U.S. dollars) as of April 1 this year, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said. This is the third time in three years [Read More]
Piraeus Port in Greece has announced a record annual turnover of 194.6 million euros (207.5 million U.S. dollars) in 2022, an increase of 26.2 percent from 2021. Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA S.A.) said on [Read More]
Greece’s public services, including transport, were paralyzed on Thursday by a 24-hour nationwide general strike called by labor unions over the deadly train accident last month. A series of marches in the center of Athens [Read More]
Interior ministers of five European Union (EU) Mediterranean countries on Saturday called for more EU solidarity on migration and more efforts to prevent irregular migration. At the end of the so-called “Med 5” ministerial-level meeting [Read More]
Greek side Olympiacos Piraeus achieved a 25-20, 25-23,25-14 away win over Israeli champions Maccabi Tel Aviv in the first leg of the men’s European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) Challenge Cup final on Sunday evening. The win [Read More]
The death toll from Tuesday’s train disaster in central Greece has climbed to 46, the Greek Fire Service announced on Thursday. The head-on collision of a passenger and freight train, which ended up on the [Read More]
Greece’s Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned on Wednesday following a fatal head-on collision of two trains that occurred in central Greece on Tuesday. At least 36 died in the crash. “It is what [Read More]
The bodies of two people were recovered from the sea after a boat carrying refugees and migrants capsized off the Aegean Sea island of Kos, the Hellenic Coast Guard said on Wednesday. A total of [Read More]
Greece will do everything possible so that a tragedy like the one it is currently faced with will never happen again, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday following a head-on collision of two [Read More]
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