Europe Greece Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator submitted an investment request to authorities of Cyprus and Israel for the Great Sea Interconnector, an undersea power cable linking the three; French group Merriam acquired a 66% stake in the project
Europe Greece Students renting a renovated flat in Athens for the upcoming academic year will face hikes of up to 28% in Gyzi and Pedion tou Areos according to Spitogatos.gr; properties in better conditions cost 34% more compared to unrenovated homes in the same area
Europe Greece Gennadius Library in Athens celebrates its 100th anniversary with a grand exhibition of its pieces to mark the contribution of diplomat J. Gennadius to understanding the continuity of Greece; his 25.000 volumes are the core of today's 145.000 books legacy
Europe Greece Only around one in four property owners are estimated to have completed the mandatory clearing of plots as a wildfire prevention measure, due for the June 15 deadline
Europe 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
Europe Greece To protect the Mediterranean monk seal a marine area has been officially established in Gyaros, northwest of Syros in Northern Cyclades; a key habitat for the endangered mammal, it hosts one of its largest populations
Europe Greece 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
Europe Greece 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
Europe Greece 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
Europe Greece 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
Europe Greece 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
Europe Greece 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
Europe Greece 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