A migrant camp championed by Greece's conservative government as a 'model' for Europe has been rocked by repeated protests, with asylum seekers describing conditions so desperate that...

Greece’s opposition parties have asked the government to respond to a report by the Wall Street Journal, according to which the US ambassador to Greece allegedly suggested that her country had been in...

One in three young Greeks who founded or started to manage a new business did so because they could not find a good job.

Greece’s new national water strategy makes an unusually candid admission: The country’s growing water problem isn’t simply about having too little water. It is also about how the state manages what it...

A POLITICO analysis of official data reveals gaps between subsidy claims and recorded livestock numbers.

Weeks before a devastating wildfire broke out on the power grid of a private wind farm in southern Greece in late July, nearby residents received a stark warning of the risks posed by the country’s el...

Storm sweeps across the southern Peloponnese's Mani peninsula, flooding homes and tourist accommodations

From the 101-meter Destiny, owned by Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman, to investor Yuri Milner’s 116-meter Multiverse and CVC Capital Partners co-founder Rolly van Rappard’s 56-meter Blue II, ...

Greece’s recovery from its severe debt crisis is impressive, but remains imperfect, a Bank of America study says.

Supreme Court Prosecutor Evangelos Bakelas rejected four applications seeking to revive the archived investigation. For the third time, Greece's highest prosecutorial authority has declined to re...

The Greek Parliament adopted on 31 July 2026 a bill introducing formal legal safeguards against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPS). The International and European Federations of ...

Critics on the greek govenrment's proposal have questioned the timing, noting that several high-profile proceedings are approaching important stages. A Greek government proposal to extend the ter...

Ambassadors will discuss a new proposal Thursday after Greece refused to back the package — which requires unanimous support — over a gas shipments issue.

Elon Musk has criticized the continued imprisonment of former Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris after reposting a message claiming his detention undermines freedom of political expression.

Eight victims of a Greek wiretapping scandal have sued the Athens-based surveillance firm Intellexa SA and individuals believed to be linked to it, seeking €1 ​million ($1.1 million) each for moral ha...

Thirteen major wildfires burned more than 70,000 hectares of land across the Attica region between 2017 and 2025, the National Observatory of Athens has said, citing satellite data.

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Greece is continuing to record one of the worst performances in the European Union regarding the speed of its judicial system.

Wealth inequality has increased in Greece, with fewer and fewer people benefiting from the growth of total aggregate wealth, according to the 2026 UBS Global Wealth Report.

A woman who suffered extensive burns during a string of arson attacks early Wednesday on property belonging to officials from the governing, conservative New Democracy party in Thessaloniki has died i...

When Greece's debt crisis struck in 2009, George, owner of a jewellery shop outside Athens, found ​himself saddled with a new €100,000 loan just as his business turnover plummeted.

Greece is among the countries in the developed world that are most prone to sustaining high inflation.

When Nikos Androulakis was elected leader of socialist PASOK in 2021, at the age of 42, his dream, besides reviving his party and ousting the ruling conservatives, was to bring forward a new, younger ...

Greece's long economic nightmare may be over on paper, but for millions of households the recovery remains elusive. New data from the European Central Bank show that the average net wealth of Gre...

Are Greeks who left during the crisis returning home?

For the first time in about 220 years, the west façade of the Parthenon in Greece can be see in its fullest possible form. External scaffolding has now been permanently removed from the monument, mark...

The crisis facing Hellenic Post (ELTA) seems to remain without a visible way out.

Athens is sixth most expensive city in Europe for housing: Greeks pay one and a half minimum wages for a monthly rent, a survey among 21 cit

More than 200 migrants reached Crete Wednesday, authorities said, amid a growing traffic of small boats risking the long Mediterranean Sea crossing from north Africa to the southern Greek island.

The proposal comes at a time when Greece continues to grapple with persistent cost-of-living pressures and growing public scrutiny over government spending, making the scale of the planned increases p...

Τhe direct economic contribution of tourism to the Greek economy in 2025 reached €32.4 billion, which amounts to 13% of Greece’s gross domestic product, according to the Institute of the Greek Tourism...

There has been an unprecedented redistribution of wealth to the detriment of citizens who are weaker economically.

The issue carries particular political weight because EYP reports directly to the prime minister, following a 2019 decision by Mitsotakis to place the intelligence agency under his office shortly afte...

They came to Greece seeking asylum. Instead, they say they were coerced by border guards into taking part in violent push backs of other migrants along the Greek-Turkish border. Solomon and Republik j...

At the centre of the confrontation is a fast-track amendment introduced by Greece’s Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis, which changes criminal procedures for felony cases involving members of parliamen...

Αναζήτησαν καταφύγιο στην Ελλάδα. Αντ’ αυτού, χρησιμοποιήθηκαν επιχειρησιακά από συνοριοφύλακες, που τους εξανάγκασαν να συμμετέχουν σε βίαιες επαναπροωθήσεις άλλων προσφύγων. Διεθνής έρευνα των Solom...

Authorities in western Greece are moving to contain a tuberculosis outbreak among farm workers in Achaia and Ilia, dispatching testing teams to the hardest-hit farms.

IPI condemns the filing of abusive legal action by Air Mediterranean against Greek media and journalists

According to the declarations released Thursday, Greece’s 22 cabinet ministers reported combined liabilities of roughly €1.56 million, while deputy ministers and junior ministers disclosed an addition...

Former European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has claimed that a former finance minister of an unspecified European Union country suggested, at the height of Greece’s financial crisis, that the...

Police investigating the April 24, 2025, killing of alleged underworld figure Giorgos Moschouris in Halandri, northern Athens, said they found an unexpected item inside his armored BMW: a case file on...

A 20-year-old agricultural worker from Nepal, living in western Greece’s Ilia region, died from leptospirosis.

The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) said Tuesday it will not comply with a court ruling to reinstate an employee working for a state farm subsidies agency that’s at the heart of a Euro...