News

Police arrested seven tax officers including the director and deputy director of a branch in Halkida for setting up a criminal organization that extorted local businessmen. Police officers handcuffed the director, the deputy director and five employees after a check carried out by a group of internal affairs officials following …

Read More »

A 9-year-old elementary school boy remains hospitalized with a hematoma in the head and fractured spine after a 100-kilogram steel gate fell on him a day earlier, at noon on Tuesday. Three people have been arrested. The incident took place around 1:30 p.m. when the boy and two other children …

Read More »

The European Commission has welcomed the letter of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis asking for the intervention of Brussels to tackle multinationals’ high prices. The EU commission welcomed the request and responded with a short notce saying the letter is “a contribution to the overall reflection on the future of the …

Read More »

Athens’ lawyers have filed a lawsuit for war crimes and genocide in Gaza  with Greek participation. The lawsuit was filed on Monday, May 20, 2024, at the Athens Prosecutor’s Office, by six current and former councillors to the Board of Directors of the Athens Bar Association with the “Athens Lawyers’ …

Read More »

Α doctor transferred over the summer season to a public facility on the island of Skiathos was asked to pay a rent of  2,500 euros per month. Seasonal firefighters who have been assigned to serve during the fire season in regions away form their homes are being accommodated in fire …

Read More »

A Greek judge dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union’s border protection and asylum operations, after a prosecutor told the court Greece lacked jurisdiction. Shortly after the trial opened in the southern …

Read More »

Estimates about olive oil production in Greece are optimistic this year, although safer conclusions will be available after about a month. “At the moment we are in the flowering period and after about a month we will have the fruiting. All this under the condition that everything will develop normally,” …

Read More »

Two people were injured and three arrested when clashed erupted between protesters and police forces outside the court in Kalamata where the the trial for nine Egyptian nationals starts over the deadly migrant shipwreck off the coast of Pylos in June 2023. Clashes outside a court in Kalamata, as 9 …

Read More »

The bacteria Staphylococcus was detected in samples of the school lunches that lead to mass food poisoning of elementary school children, Greece’s National  Public Health Organization (EOODY) announced on Monday evening. Citing the EODY statement, state-broadcaster ERT reported that the outbreak of food poisoning cases is due to a toxin …

Read More »

Trolley passengers, policemen, bystanders and even cyclists are being recorded as they push with bare hands the long vehicle off the middle of the road on Syggrou Avenue in downtown Athens on Sunday. The video posted on social media went viral and thus with the caption:”When the trolley breaks down …

Read More »

Greece’s embassy in London has clocked up £1.6 million in unpaid congestion charge fees, new figures have shown. Statistics published by Transport for London (TfL) revealed that the Greek embassy ranks 24th in the list of embassies owing the most in unpaid charges in the British capital and sixth among …

Read More »

Greece’s public sector union ADEDY has called for a 24-hour strike to tak eplace tomorrow, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. In its call to the strike, ADEDY demands, among others, a horizontal increase of employees’ salaries by 10%, collective labor agreements, abolition of the salary freeze and of the 2% unemployment …

Read More »

Greeks are “center-left” at heart but vote for “center-right”. this is among others the result of a big survey conducted by Metron Analysis on behalf of diaNEOsis institute. One of the survey chapters sought to see the dominant ideologies in the Greek society. The survey “What Greeks think” was conducted …

Read More »

The factory involved in the food poisoning of dozens of school children last week was completely burned down after a fire broke out at 9:30 on Sunday evening. The factory of  Giannitsis company in the industrial area of ​​Lamia, central Greece, was completely destroyed by the that broke out at …

Read More »

On behalf of the Greek government, Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis expressed condolences to the government of Iran and the Iranian people for the death of president Ebrahim Raisi, the foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and another seven people, killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials crashed …

Read More »

Fcking Unbelievable! Greece imposes new criteria for priority treatment in Emergencies of public hospitals. The new criterion is no longer the patient’s state of health but …the hotel where he stays. The decision for top priority treatment of VIP guests at the Conference League Cup in the ER of Evaggelismos …

Read More »

An unusual scenery in Greece: Police officers set up tents in Syntagma Square opposite the  Greek Parliament on Friday morning to protest against their impoverishment, budget cuts impacting their compensation for travel expenses and mandatory movement to urban centers without right to appeal. A government amendment passed on April 28, …

Read More »

A fire in the “Arisvi Cultural Center” of Kalloni on the island of Lesvos late on Wednesday destroyed thousands of rare books some of them dated from the beginning of the 18th century. The fire broke out short before midnight on Wednesday in the “Arisvi Culture Club” and burned down …

Read More »

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis  sent a clear message to the new leadership of North Macedonia, stressing that if it does not fully comply with the provisions of the Prespa Agreement, then the country’s path to the European Union will remain closed The Greek government will not ratify the remaining three …

Read More »

The first electric buses started to circulate on the streets of Greek capital Athens on Friday, May 17, 2024, after several delays. Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras was the first “passenger” to board such a bus and take a ride. “Today is an important day for urban transport in …

Read More »