November 30, 2023
Live animals in Christmas mangers? Volos mayor calls critics “Curs!”
For a second year in a row and despite strong reactions the mayor of Volos placed live animals in tw…
November 30, 2023
Christmas 2023: Stores opening hours in Athens
The Trade Association of Athens proposed the schedule and opening hours of stores in the Greek capit…
November 30, 2023
Earthquake rattles with 4.3R the island of Zakynthos
An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale rattled the island of Zakynthos earlier on Thursday…
November 30, 2023
Greece to introduce “postal vote” starting at EU elections
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Thursday that Greeks living abroad who are enr…
November 30, 2023
Vassilis Vassilikos: Internationally acclaimed Greek author passes away
Internationally acclaimed and widely translated Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos, a former MP and Am…
November 29, 2023
Taxi drivers & owners on 48-strike to protest new tax bill
Taxi drivers and owners in Athens mobilize again against the new tax bill and announced on Wednesday…
November 29, 2023
Greece’s natural gas export potential will be quadrupled, says Minister
Greece’s natural gas export potential will be quadrupled by the end of the decade, with new in…
November 29, 2023
Hospital doctors on 48h strike due to collapse of Greece’s NHS
Highly frustrated about the ongoing deterioration of the National Health System, the dramatic workin…
November 29, 2023
SILVER ALERT: Do you know Maria Taylor? She was rescued from Symi sea area
Greece’s Service for missing persons LifelineHellas has issued an alert about a foreign nation…
November 29, 2023
Crete: Students found semi-conscious in high school toilet
Alarm for high school students who were found semi-unconscious in a school toilet in Heraklion on th…
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Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued an emergency bulletin on Friday warning of a cold weather front with snowfalls and rainfalls, gale-force winds both in the Ionian and the Aegean Seas, storms and significant temperature drop. According to EMY, a deep barometric low coming from the north-northwest accompanied by a …
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Athens lawyers to abstain 5 days from all court-related duties
The Athens Bar Association on Thursday announced a five-day abstention from all court-related duties in protest to the government’s new taxation bill. The five-day abstention from court duties starts on Monday, November 27, and ends on Friday, December 1, 2023. Furthermore, the Asscociation has summoned National Economy & Finance Minister …
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Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in downtown Athens (video)
With 24,000 lights the impressive Christmas Tree of the City of Athens was illuminated at Syntagma square in opposite the Parliament early Thursday evening, November 23, 2023. Video: The lighting ceremony was inaugurated by outgoing Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyiannis in front of hundreds of Athenians and tourists. The 17-metre-tall …
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Retired farmer spends life-savings to donate new ambulance to local service
A 89-year-old retired farmer has spent all her life-savings to donate a brand new and fully equipped ambulance to a local service and hospital in western Greece. Athina Papachristou from the city of Messolonghi spend 65,000 euros for the ambulance. The vehicle was immediately integrated to the local ambulance service, …
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Minister threatens to quit if he’ll have to back “same sex marriage”; finds supporters among ND
A very clear “NO to same sex marriage” by arch-concervative State Minister Makis Voridis stirred up the government of New Democracy on Thursday, while Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reportedly plan to bring the relevant legislation for voting in the Parliament before the end of the year. Speaking to Open TV, …
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Cost of keeping a pet in Greece rose to “unbearable levels” with tragic results
The cost of keeping a pet in Greece has increased to unbearable levels for some animal lovers with the result that some owners are unable to meet the cost for food and visits to the vet. They often seek a new loving home for their 4-legged pal or they dump …
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FRAPORT: Passenger traffic at Greece’s regional airports surpasses previous record highs
In the first ten months of 2023, Greece’s 14 regional airports served 32.3 million passengers, up 8.4% compared to 2022 and 12% up compared to 2019, managing company Fraport said on Tuesday. The data was presented by George Vilos, Fraport Greece’s Executive Director for Commercial & Business Development, at a …
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Greece tables draft legislation expanding ‘Hercules’ program to reduce NPLs
The Greek government on Thursday tabled in Parliament a draft law seeking to further reduce non-performing loans in banks’ portfolios by expanding the “Hercules” program. The draft legislation envisages measures to introduce greater transparency, more information and respect of debtors’ rights for servicers, modernize an out-of-court mechanism and expand protection …
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SYRIZA is falling apart after 9 more MPs leave the left-wing party
Νine lawmakers of left-wing SYRIZA announced on Thursday morning that they break way from Greece’s main opposition party seeking to form their own parliamentary group. Early aftenoon, also MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis announced his departure from the party. The fraction led by former Labor Minister Effie Achtsioglou, known as “6+6,” is …
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Hundreds of self-employed and freelancers protest new tax bill
Hundreds of self-employed and freelancers marched through the streets of Athens and other cities across Greece to protest the new tax bill that taxes them with deemed income in order to combat tax evasion as the government argues. With banners and placards in their hands, hundreds of freelancers and self-employed, …
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Retail stores in Greece open on Sunday, Nov 26
Retail stores in Greece will open nationwide on Sunday, November 26, 2023. According to Athens Trade Association SELPE, the stores will be open from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. It is unclear whether some supermarkets chains will follow. Stores in Greece are closed on Sunday with some exceptions on pre-Christmas …
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Proastiakos train with 72 passengers on board party derailed
A Proastiakos suburban railway service from Rio to Agios Andreas in the port city of Patras with 72 people on board was partially derailed on Wednesday, the Hellenic Train said in a press release. The train came off the tracks at the junction of Gounari and Othonos Streets in Patras. …
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Greece to introduce “postal vote” starting at EU elections
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Mitsotakis: “Unfortunate incident that won’t affect Greece-UK relations” (POLL)
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Parthenon Marbles: UK’s PM Sunak cancels meeting with Greek counterpart Mitsotakis
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Metro station in Thessaloniki opened to public for sightseeing only
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Minister threatens to quit if he’ll have to back “same sex marriage”; finds supporters among ND
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SYRIZA is falling apart after 9 more MPs leave the left-wing party
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Kasselakis’ dream: “Return to old, tidy Greece with clean homes”
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Scientists of National Observatory of Athens NOA seek public support (PETITION)
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Bishop of Piraeus claims homosexuality causes cancer, lashes out at SYRIZA leader
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Poll: PASOK ahead of main opposition SYRIZA
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Parliament approves bill on dissemination of terrorist content online
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Christmas 2023: Stores opening hours in Athens
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Greece’s natural gas export potential will be quadrupled, says Minister
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Entrepreneurship fee for self-employed to be cut by 50%, says FinMin
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Interest rate on deposits still very low in Greece
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Greece probes taxpayers declaring residence abroad but live in the country