Greek police cracked down a criminal gang cultivating cannabis and turned into expensive crystalline hemp in Athens. It is one of the biggest drugs trafficking gangs operating in Greece, its members are form Greece, Vietnam, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The financial benefits for the gang members estimated to …

Half mainland of Greece is covered by snow, large parts of the Thessaly lowlands are covered by water. Strong winds have forced authorities to halt locally sea traffic for ferries and ships. Many schools in Macedonia and Central Greece are closed on Monday due to snow- and rainfalls as well …

A senior in outrage poured gasoline in the offices and employees of Greek Public Power Corporation (PPC/DEH) and would have set everyone and everything alight hadn’t the police manage to take him under control just moments before the disaster would break out. The 70-year-old pensioner went to the local branch …

Four of the largest islands of the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea will be supplied with power via an underwater cable as of next month. This connection will put an end to environmental polluting units of the Greek Public Power Corporation [PPC. DEH],” the state broadcaster ERT said in …

Thousands of Greek households will spend Christmas holidays in the darkness. Greece’s Public Power Corporation (PPC/DEH) plans to proceed to power cuts to 35,000 private and commercial subscribers by the end of the year due to unpaid electricity bills. The plan foresees 2,000 power cuts per day until the end …

Employees at the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) are among the 19 people the Greek Police arrested for having formed a gang that was stealing railway equipment estimated worth of 7 million euros. Eight OSE workers – a manager and several employees  but also an employee at the Greek Public Power …

Stunned and with hanging jaws Greeks saw and heard Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announcing that he will hand out 1.4 billion euros as one-off “social dividend” in December. “The welfare benefits  totaling 1.4 billion euros, is more than double than that paid out last year (600 million euros) and this …

Greece’s Public Power Company (DEH) is turning to radical measures to tackle the problem of unpaid bills, amounting to more than 2.4 billion euros. The PPC not only increases the interest rate in outstanding bills, it also hires collector agencies to scare the hell out of those who do not …

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) predicted, Greece could be on the verge of bankruptcy again, in a couple of years. In its quarterly report assessing the Greek state budget for the years 2020-2026, the PBO said on Monday, that interests that should be paid in this period of time to …

150,000 Australian dollars in donations were sent to Lesvos as aid for the victims of 6.4R earthquake last June. The local Metropolis decided, however, to spend the money in bricks for churches repair and not for humans in need. The outrage of  the local community is big. Diaspora Greeks in …

Greece’s Public Power Company (PPC/DEH) is ready to sell 500,000 of its customers and is awaiting for the necessary legislative arrangements by the government. The PPC management has already prepared a portfolio with the subscribers’ numbers of low- and medium-voltage users. However, several legal issues are open with regards to …

For the Greek Public Power Company (DEH) and the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) the solution is simple: it will get 100million euros either from the state budget or from the power consumers. The amount comes together from a 50% refund of the special consumption tax (SCT) in the fuel …

Transportation to and from the island of Kos is at 90 percent through the airport, Athens News Agency reported on Friday after the earthquake 6.6R caused serious damage at the port of the island. Smaller boats transfer passengers from and to Kos via the islands of Kalymnos and Nissyros, which …

Kos earthquake: Two dead, more than 120 injured, among them 5 in critical condition. Majority of the injured are tourists. Serious damages in the port of the island of Kos after a powerful earthquake stroke with 6.4 R short after midnight. One third of the island is without electricity. No …

At least 62 wildfires broke out in the last 24 hours across Greece. Fire brigades were able take the majority of the wildfires under control in time. Among them  there were three in Attica (Kryoneri, Lavrio, Artemida), one in Kalistaina Messini and one in Profitis Ilias, Herakleio, Crete, As high …

The heat wave started to withdraw but the three days of “hell” with temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius sent dozens of Cretans to the hospitals. Three elderly died. Over the three days of heat wave, local ambulances received at least 27 calls to assist people with symptoms of heat …

Three elderly people have been hospitalized in Herakleio with symptoms of heat stroke. For two of them, doctors considered intubation as necessary, local media report. As a heat wave has been striking Greece since last Thursday, municipalities across the country have opened air-conditioned space for citizens, especially thinking of those …

One of most powerful Greek unions, the one of workers at Public Power Company, GENOP-DEH, claims ‘climate change’ is a ‘construct’ created by certain business interests. In a statement issued on Sunday, conspiracy theories believer GENOP hails US President Donald Trump for his decision to withdraw the US from the …

Greece’s Public Power Company hired an artistic director for its choir. It sounds like a bad musical the moment the PPC announced to retrieve retrospectively €735 million euros from electricity consumers as  outstanding debt have reached 2.2 billion euros. In a job opening that run from March 24 to April …

Syrian refugees of Kurdish origin continue their hunger strike for sixth consecutive day in the hot spot of Moria on the island of Lesvos. The twelve men protest for long delays in the process of  examining asylum requests by the secondary committees. Eleven of them launched the hunger strike last …