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Postgraduate boom raises questions on standards

Postgraduate boom raises questions on standards

The number of postgraduate students in Greece has tripled in 15 years, reaching ...

Searching for boundaries in the AI jungle

Searching for boundaries in the AI jungle

Stamatis Gatirdakis, co-founder and president of the Ethikon Institute, still re...

Greece plans strategic submarines to counter Turkish naval expansion

Greece plans strategic submarines to counter Turkish na...

Greece is set to enhance its naval capabilities with new submarines capable of l...

Online seminar to guide Greeks abroad on taxation, business, and relocation procedures

Online seminar to guide Greeks abroad on taxation, busi...

An online information seminar aimed at Greeks living abroad will take place on W...

Stournaras: Greece is bridging its investment gap

Stournaras: Greece is bridging its investment gap

Greece is gradually closing the investment gap that has long set it apart from t...

Haircut for Swiss franc loans

Haircut for Swiss franc loans

A special program for all loans in Swiss francs that their borrowers want to con...

Young people, politics and Europe

Young people, politics and Europe

The future of the European Union and its member-states depends on their young ci...

Crew of Greek ship hit off Yemen safe but vessel risks sinking, operator says

Crew of Greek ship hit off Yemen safe but vessel risks ...

The 19-member crew of a Greek bulk carrier severely damaged in the Red Sea by re...

Istanbul mayor’s jailed lawyer denounces ‘fabricated’ charges

Istanbul mayor’s jailed lawyer denounces ‘fabricated’ c...

The lawyer for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who like the mayor is in jail unde...

Leros: The underrated Greek island that has it all

Leros: The underrated Greek island that has it all

Discover Leros, a hidden Greek island where untouched beauty, wartime history, a...

Cyprus goes high-tech in search for people missing from past conflict

Cyprus goes high-tech in search for people missing from...

A UN-backed commission investigating mass disappearances in Cyprus is deploying ...

Confessions in a drama with a happy end

Confessions in a drama with a happy end

Germany’s former chancellor spoke openly about her relationship to Greece, key m...

‘Eternal students’ to get one final chance to graduate

‘Eternal students’ to get one final chance to graduate

A new “last chance” provision for so-called “eternal students” was introduced du...

Houthi rebels claim attack on Greek bulk carrier Magic Seas

Houthi rebels claim attack on Greek bulk carrier Magic ...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed Sunday’s attack on a Greek-owned, Liberian-fl...

Greeks priced out of domestic housing market, study finds

Greeks priced out of domestic housing market, study finds

The significant recovery of the Greek real estate market has resulted in a rate ...

Two missing teenagers found dead in Xanthi river

Two missing teenagers found dead in Xanthi river

Two teenagers who had been missing since Sunday afternoon in Xanthi, northern Gr...

Explosion on Greek-owned LPG Tanker in Russian port

Explosion on Greek-owned LPG Tanker in Russian port

An explosion aboard the Eco Wizard, a Greek-owned LPG tanker, has triggered an a...

Gov’t launches DEI training initiative for private-sector employees

Gov’t launches DEI training initiative for private-sect...

Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Domna Michailidou has announced the launc...

1,200 migrants detained in three days as arrivals from Libya surge

1,200 migrants detained in three days as arrivals from ...

Authorities say more than 1,200 migrants have been detained on Crete and the nea...

Woman arrested in connection with infant deaths in Amaliada

Woman arrested in connection with infant deaths in Amal...

A 25-year-old woman has been arrested by the police in connection with the death...

Father and son convicted of assaulting cemetery worker during exhumation

Father and son convicted of assaulting cemetery worker ...

A father and son have been convicted of violently assaulting a municipal cemeter...

European prosecutor seeks indictment of 13 in OPEKEPE subsidy fraud case

European prosecutor seeks indictment of 13 in OPEKEPE s...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has recommended the indictment of 13 ind...

A Europe of good intentions and little action

A Europe of good intentions and little action

One question about the Greek economic crisis that we’ll never know the answer to...

5.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off eastern Crete

5.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off eastern Crete

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 8:45 p.m. on Monday, off the eastern ...

Cutting the cord

Cutting the cord

The OPEKEPE subsidy fraud case stokes public cynicism toward the political syste...

Two crew killed in another attack on Greek-owned ship in Red Sea

Two crew killed in another attack on Greek-owned ship i...

A second attack on a Liberia-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier in the Red Sea...

New gas discovery reaffirms Cyprus’ energy potential, Christodoulides say

New gas discovery reaffirms Cyprus’ energy potential, C...

The new discovery of natural gas in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in off...

ATHEX: Mixed session keeps index in the black

ATHEX: Mixed session keeps index in the black

The Greek stock market is gradually winding down to summer mode.

Cartoon (07/05/2025)

Cartoon (07/05/2025)

Summer sales to begin next Monday

Summer sales to begin next Monday

Greece’s summer sales season will kick off on July 14 and run through August 30,...

Pierrakakis to attend ECOFIN meeting

Pierrakakis to attend ECOFIN meeting

Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis is in Brussels, where on Tuesday he will a...

‘We can’t pour state money into a black hole’

‘We can’t pour state money into a black hole’

Nicosia is under growing pressure from both Greece and Brussels to commit funds ...

Is Greece attractive to foreign investors?

Is Greece attractive to foreign investors?

A host of government ministers and other officials, experts and market leaders w...

Stournaras: Greece bridging investment gap with EU

Stournaras: Greece bridging investment gap with EU

Greece is gradually closing the investment gap that has long set it apart from t...

Suspects in teen rape case to face court on Monday

Suspects in teen rape case to face court on Monday

Four defendants will appear in court Monday in connection with the alleged sexua...

Greece rescues hundreds of migrants over weekend off islands of Gavdos and Crete

Greece rescues hundreds of migrants over weekend off is...

Greece has rescued hundreds of migrants off its southern islands of Gavdos and C...

Fire on Mount Parnitha quickly contained

Fire on Mount Parnitha quickly contained

A wildfire that broke out early on Monday in a forested area of Mount Parnitha, ...

How the EU subsidy scandal unraveled

How the EU subsidy scandal unraveled

The investigation that first revealed widespread fraud in the Greek agricultural...

Tempe inquiry: Ex-transport minister to submit written memo

Tempe inquiry: Ex-transport minister to submit written ...

Parliament’s preliminary inquiry committee investigating the deadly train disast...

Silence falls where children once laughed

Silence falls where children once laughed

The final bell rang at the elementary school of Drakotrypa, a remote mountain vi...

Turkish prosecutor launches probe into main opposition leader, broadcaster NTV reports

Turkish prosecutor launches probe into main opposition ...

A Turkish prosecutor launched an investigation on Monday into main opposition le...

A man is injured in a struggle with an escaped lion in southern Turkey

A man is injured in a struggle with an escaped lion in ...

A farmer was seriously injured when he was attacked by a lion that had escaped a...

Explosive device likely damaged Greek tanker off Libya last week, operator says

Explosive device likely damaged Greek tanker off Libya ...

An external explosive device most likely caused the blast that damaged Greek oil...

Former transport minister denies wrongdoing in deadly Tempe train crash

Former transport minister denies wrongdoing in deadly T...

Former transport minister Kostas A. Karamanlis on Monday denied any wrongdoing i...

Over 200 migrants rescued off Gavdos

Over 200 migrants rescued off Gavdos

About 230 undocumented migrants aboard two vessels were rescued south of Gavdos,...

OPEKEPE scandal and Tempe inquiry top political agenda

OPEKEPE scandal and Tempe inquiry top political agenda

The scandal involving alleged misuse of EU agricultural funds continues to grow,...

US expands military footprint in Greece as priorities evolve

US expands military footprint in Greece as priorities e...

The United States has increased its use of key military facilities in Greece, in...

4.1 magnitude quake strikes off Zakynthos

4.1 magnitude quake strikes off Zakynthos

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Zakynthos, also known as Zant...

Scorching heatwave grips Greece, no relief until Thursday

Scorching heatwave grips Greece, no relief until Thursday

Heatwave conditions are set to continue across most parts of Greece on Sunday, w...

Summer sales begin July 14, retailers anticipate turnover boost

Summer sales begin July 14, retailers anticipate turnov...

Greece’s summer sales season will kick off on July 14 and run through August 30,...

Discrepancies in Greece’s livestock data raise concerns

Discrepancies in Greece’s livestock data raise concerns

Greece reportedly has 15.9 million sheep and goats according to 2024 Integrated ...

Fugitives wanted for murder in Turkey arrested near Athens

Fugitives wanted for murder in Turkey arrested near Athens

Three individuals wanted by Turkish authorities in connection with a 2024 case o...

Foreign minister in Benghazi Sunday for high-level talks

Foreign minister in Benghazi Sunday for high-level talks

Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis travels to Benghazi on Sunday for a key mee...

Anti-money laundering authority launches probe into agricultural fund scandal

Anti-money laundering authority launches probe into agr...

The country’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority has launched a wide-reaching inves...

Heatwave to test power grid stability, authorities on high alert

Heatwave to test power grid stability, authorities on h...

Energy authorities are on high alert as the country experiences another intense ...

Apartment fire in central Athens leaves one injured

Apartment fire in central Athens leaves one injured

A fire broke out early Sunday morning in a fourth-floor apartment in central Ath...

Millions of sheep, goats, but where’s the milk?

Millions of sheep, goats, but where’s the milk?

How many sheep and goats does Greece actually have? And if the country has as ma...

European Social Fund to boost inclusion initiatives

European Social Fund to boost inclusion initiatives

Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Domna Michailidou met on Friday with the ...

Coach goes the distance in Crete

Coach goes the distance in Crete

It’s a common belief that children living in the countryside have more opportuni...

Greek Gen-Zers around the world try to stay connected to their homeland

Greek Gen-Zers around the world try to stay connected t...

Across the world, second-generation Greek Gen-Zers are consuming language, music...

Cyprus hotel industry into desalination

Cyprus hotel industry into desalination

Eleven major hotel groups in Cyprus – across Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos – have...

Monthly payment of VAT

Monthly payment of VAT

Greece is taking another step to beating tax evasion.

Athens unvarnished

Athens unvarnished

Daily life in summer Athens is a subject that never grows old. It’s constantly s...

Every other employee wants another job

Every other employee wants another job

One in two workers are looking for a new job that will give them more opportunit...

Anna Ornstein, psychoanalyst who survived the Holocaust, dies at 98

Anna Ornstein, psychoanalyst who survived the Holocaust...

That Anna Ornstein, a Holocaust survivor, focused on trauma in a long career as ...

Erdogan confident Turkey will receive F-35 jets under deal with Trump

Erdogan confident Turkey will receive F-35 jets under d...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was confident that Turkey would be readmi...

Police identify Agia Paraskevi shooting victim as Polish national

Police identify Agia Paraskevi shooting victim as Polis...

The victim of Friday’s fatal shooting in the Agia Paraskevi suburb of Athens has...

Flow of Golden Visa applications reverts to normal

Flow of Golden Visa applications reverts to normal

The downward trend in the rate of new applications for residence permits through...

An unlivable city

An unlivable city

On a recent Monday there was an anti-war rally on Syntagma Square and a march to...

‘Stand Up Therapy’ – You are not alone

‘Stand Up Therapy’ – You are not alone

How would you respond to a live therapy session? Manos Hatzimalonas managed to c...

How Germans learned the significance of the word ‘ochi’ 10 years ago

How Germans learned the significance of the word ‘ochi’...

Looking back today at the events surrounding the Greek referendum in July 2015 f...

Luxury holiday home prices soar in the Cyclades

Luxury holiday home prices soar in the Cyclades

The asking prices for luxury holiday homes in the Cyclades have increased faster...

Omerta leads to vendettas

Omerta leads to vendettas

It is not the wiretapped conversations between a range of state officials and ot...

‘This attack was not only against Christians, but against all Syrians’

‘This attack was not only against Christians, but again...

Speaking after the deadly bombing of a Damascus church, Hind Kabawat, the only C...

Metlen board backs optional public offer

Metlen board backs optional public offer

The board of directors of Metlen Energy & Metals PLC has expressed its full supp...

Cartoon (05/07/2025)

Cartoon (05/07/2025)

Addicted to subsidies

Addicted to subsidies

The historian of the future will someday record Greece’s great missed opportunit...

TIF measures to include tax breaks

TIF measures to include tax breaks

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis confirmed on Friday that the Finance Mi...

Islands to get more than €5.5 bln for energy upgrades, green transition

Islands to get more than €5.5 bln for energy upgrades, ...

Greek islands will get the majority of the funds set out for to Greece by the Eu...

Man gunned down in cold blood on street in Agia Paraskevi

Man gunned down in cold blood on street in Agia Paraskevi

A man has been gunned down in cold blood in the Agia Paraskevi suburb in norther...

Wildfire situation improves in eastern Attica amid reports of burned homes

Wildfire situation improves in eastern Attica amid repo...

Progress has been made in containing the wildfire that started Friday around noo...

Greeks and Germans: Memory and longing

Greeks and Germans: Memory and longing

Greeks and Germans have been in a complicated relationship for a very long time,...

Mitsotakis pledges €100 mln in projects to Mount Athos

Mitsotakis pledges €100 mln in projects to Mount Athos

The government plans to launch projects worth €100 million by 2030 on Mount Atho...

Police in Athens arrest five suspected Turkish mafia members

Police in Athens arrest five suspected Turkish mafia me...

Police in Athens launched a large-scale operation early Friday targeting suspect...

From ancient Athens to AI: The evolving anatomy of misinformation

From ancient Athens to AI: The evolving anatomy of misi...

We imagine misinformation as a uniquely modern disease – a digital hydra bred by...

Antenna Group expresses interested in buying major Italian dailies, says report

Antenna Group expresses interested in buying major Ital...

Italy’s Agnelli family received several expressions of interest for GEDI, the pu...

Wildfire breaks out in Messinia

Wildfire breaks out in Messinia

A wildfire has broken out in Neohori, Messinia, burning through rural and forest...

More details emerge on Voula bus collision

More details emerge on Voula bus collision

At least 54 people, including minors, are now reported to have been injured in F...

Stanley Kubrick Summer Nights | Athens | July 7-21 

Stanley Kubrick Summer Nights | Athens | July 7-21 

Open-air cinemas Cine Alexandra (27 Iroon Polytechniou, Halandri) and Cine Fleri...

From burning trash cans to hip bars

From burning trash cans to hip bars

Airbnbs and cafes have arrived in Exarchia, a neighborhood once hostile to such ...

Former Hilton hotel reopens its gates for ‘House of NYNN’ members

Former Hilton hotel reopens its gates for ‘House of NYN...

With the opening of its members’ club, The Ilisian, the new integrated destinati...

Greece expands space industry with defense, naval ties

Greece expands space industry with defense, naval ties

Greece’s space industry is expanding rapidly, with 60 companies now generating €...

Deputy PM Hatzidakis and Chinese Premier Li discuss bilateral ties

Deputy PM Hatzidakis and Chinese Premier Li discuss bil...

Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the...

Large wildfire breaks out in southern Evia, settlement evacuated

Large wildfire breaks out in southern Evia, settlement ...

A large wildfire broke out on Friday afternoon in the Mesochoria area near Karys...

Customs corruption ring at border crossing with Albania dismantled

Customs corruption ring at border crossing with Albania...

Thirteen customs officials – including the supervisor – stationed at the Mavroma...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on private visit to Rhodes

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on private visit to Rhodes

Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived on Rhodes on Friday afternoon for a private visit.

Coast guard officer implicated in protection racket

Coast guard officer implicated in protection racket

A coast guard officer is among the defendants in a major case led by the police’...

EU task force on energy price disparities to convene Monday, says Papastavrou

EU task force on energy price disparities to convene Mo...

Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou has said that the EU task force on energy pr...

Outdated stereotypes

Outdated stereotypes

While a packed theater in Athens was applauding the former German chancellor, An...

New leadership appointed to Greece’s Supreme Court

New leadership appointed to Greece’s Supreme Court

The Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) has appointed new leadership, following a cabin...

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