The Phoenicians first emerged around 3,000 years ago in the Levant — encompassing modern-day Lebanon, Syria, and Israel

The Agricultural Cooperatives Union tabled a proposal to the Greek Ministry of Rural Development and Food, calling for the establishment of a national standard for regenerative agriculture in Greece. The agricultural union has already advocated for the official recognition and integration of regenerative agriculture practices into the agri-environmental schemes of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy […]

The developments come on the same day as the European Parliament adopted a mostly negative report on the resumption of EU-Turkey talks

The student-led initiative, backed by an advisory team of international investors, entrepreneurs, and market experts, aims to empower the next generation and strengthen Greece's innovation ecosystem.

The Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said the country had made strides in controlling the exorbitant Greek public debt, predicting it would not be the most indebted in the EU in 2029 during a visit to the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) offices on Wednesday. According to the European Commission, Greece stands at the top […]

In 1455, Greek Cardinal Bessarion nearly became pope. Did his beard cost him the papacy — and Christians in the East and West their chance at unity?

The 34-year-old doctoral student at Athens' Polytechnic university who attacked the female canteen-manager has since been arrested.

The story of Tasos Mitropoulos is not just the career journey of a great Olympiacos player, it's the chronicle of a life in red-and-white, one full of tension, leadership, some wrong turns but complete dedication

The Greek government is attributing geopolitical significance to Papastavrou's visit, aiming to capitalize on Chevron and ExxonMobil's activities to strengthen the strategic alliance with the United States.

The visit of the President of Egypt to Greece marks the further strengthening of the strategic relationship between Athens and Cairo and solidifies the role of Greece and Egypt as pillars of stability in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Greek footballer Efthymios Koulouris, who plays for Polish first-division club Pogoń Szczecin, was voted MVP for the month of April. The former PAOK FC and Atromitos player, who scored in his team’s defeat in the Polish Cup final against Legia Warsaw (3-4), found the back of the net on eight occasions in April while he […]

Among renters, nearly 40% are spending more than 30% of their income on housing, with 16.9% allocating up to half of their earnings to rent alone-- that's one in six Greeks that spend half their income on rent.

The Greek Minister of Education, Sofia Zacharaki, said any students involved in violent incidents would lose their status immediately in the government’s efforts to clamp down on attacks on Greek university campuses. Speaking to public broadcaster ERT, the minister revealed a set of strict new measures aimed at addressing violence in Greek universities. The initiative […]

Voridis emphasized that since taking over the ministry a month and a half ago, he has already implemented a strategy aimed at reducing the number of people residing in migrant facilities.

Greece's Finance Minister and the Governor of the Bank of Greece highlight the country's economic momentum, stressing the importance of investments, reforms, and crackdown on tax evasion.

As Greek banks are set to announce their quarterly results for the year this week, JP Morgan estimates the sector will continue on a positive trend, albeit slightly down. As JP Morgan notes, while Q1 results in 2025 posted a slight slump following a strong performance in Q4 of 2024, marked by substantial credit growth […]

Nine Greek MPs from the New Left (Nea Aristera) have raised serious bioethical and other queries in a formal document addressed to Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis regarding reports that 100 thousand blood samples from newborns had been sent to two private companies for a complete DNA sequencing. Among other issues put forward in the document, […]

The widespread implementation of point-of-sale (POS) systems has played a key role in reducing the size of the shadow economy, once estimated at 30%, now brought down to less than half, Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis announced during the opening of the 5th OT Forum. He explained that while previously the underground economy accounted for […]

The protest follows the government’s announcement that AI will be used in courts for automatic translation of legal documents, interpretation and transcription of foreign witness testimonies, and voice-to-text recording of oral court proceedings

Efforts are underway to locate the individual who actually constructed the explosive, as investigators have ruled out the possibility that the deceased woman had the technical expertise to do so.