Greece

On 28 May 1952, Greek women won the right to stand for election to Parliament after many decades of fierce struggle; Yet, it took over two decades for the principle of gender equality to be explicitly codified

Citizens in Athens have started to receive the first traffic fines issued with a new automatic system that generates fines from artificial intelligence-equipped fixed and bus-mounted cameras

Trains, ferries, urban transport service was disrupted as workers joined tens of thousands of Greeks rallying to mark the anniversary of the train crash that on 28 February 2023 claimed 57 lives demanding justice ahead of the trial set to begin next month

Greece recorded the highest share of cross-border service imports in the EU according to latest Eurostat data, relying heavily on services delivered directly from abroad, with cross-border supply accounting for 68,8% of total imports from non-EU countries

Protesting farmers from across Greece who converged on central Athens yesterday, driving dozens of tractors to parliament, horns blaring, are expected to leave the capital today at noon, after parking their tractors on Syntagma Square overnight

The company behind a canceled hotel development project near Sarakiniko beach on Milos received a ministerial order to fill in the excavations left behind within one month, restore the area to its original state using bedrock material previously removed

Thousands of travelers have been stranded and airport operations across Greece were in a virtual standstill for several hours yesterday as a collapse of radio frequencies disrupted air traffic communications bringing to the shutdown of Greek airspace

Greek outbound tourism has sharply risen in 2025; latest data from Visa reveal a robust desire for travel and an evolving landscape of consumer preferences

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens will use AI to identify students at risk of exceeding graduation timelines; analyzing 30 years of data it will intercept anomalies and alert academic advisors

The torch for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics was lit in an indoor and scaled-down ceremony in ancient Olympia; the traditional ceremony at the stadium where the Games were born in ancient Greece was redesigned due to heavy rain warnings

Police said six persons took part in the exchange of gunfire between two feuding families in the village of Vorizia, Crete, in which two people were killed and four were seriously injured

Competition Commission has identified inefficiencies and potential distortions in coastal shipping; with 299 vessels operated by 216 companies the sector remains concentrated, with Attica Group and Seajets controlling about 60% of total passenger capacity