Greece

Fire brigade chief Nikos Longinos on Thursday offered his condolences to his Greek counterpart Theodoros Vagias after three Greek firefighters died while battling wildfires on the island of Crete. According ...

Two firefighters died on Wednesday after becoming trapped while battling a wildfire near Rethymno, Crete, as fires and extreme heat continued to affect parts of southern Europe. Greek authorities ordered ...

Greece has approved the purchase of a multi-layer air defence system worth up to €3.5 billion ($4 billion) from Israel, several types of drones and Embraer’s EMBJ3.SA C-390 military transport ...

A 60-year-old man attacked two Greek-American tourists with a knife on Tuesday in the Acropolis area, near the archaeological site which hosts Greece’s famed ancient monuments, before being arrested ...

Seven Greek islands in the Aegean Sea have declared drought emergencies this year to preserve water as climate change makes summers hotter and rainfall more erratic. Now, authorities are wondering ...

Svetlana Maksimovic and her husband Ljubisa Karovic had just settled into a Ryanair RYA.I flight last week when a loud bang pierced the hum of engines. Within seconds, she ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday that gasoline and diesel costs for consumers would fall during the summer following a government deal with oil refineries aimed at taming ...

Ryanair said one of its planes was forced into an emergency landing at Thessaloniki airport in Greece shortly after takeoff on Friday after a window was “dislodged”, with two industry ...

Greece’s governing New Democracy party called on Thursday for its supporters to take to the streets in protest after the 72-year-old mother of one of its parliamentary candidates died ...

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. As the ...

Private sector deposits in Greece witnessed a substantial increase of €5.31 billion during May 2026, marking a complete reversal from the €66 million decline recorded in April, according to the latest figures released ...

Greek rescuers were searching for people trapped after a four-storey apartment block collapsed on Tuesday in the Petralona area of Athens, the fire brigade said. Four people who were earlier ...

A 54-year-old man has arrested been in Cyprus on the basis of a European arrest warrant, after having been convicted of fraud in Greece, the police said on Thursday. The ...

A Belgian investigating judge has issued a European arrest warrant against former Greek European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, a Greek government official said late on Monday, confirming reports in Belgian and ...

The Bank of Greece has reported a decline in the value of loans managed by domestic credit servicing companies and transferred to specialised financial institutions abroad. The total nominal value ...

The mastermind of Greece’s defunct and most lethal guerrilla group November 17, who was freed from jail last month, will return to prison after the country’s top court overturned ...

Greek households experienced a quiet but significant erosion of wealth between 2021 and 2025 as inflation significantly outpaced the returns on traditional bank savings, according to a new report from Freedom24. While ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Wednesday discussed the Cyprus problem when they met on the sidelines of the south-east European cooperation process summit ...

The Greek state secured €3 billion on Wednesday as high investor demand met the reopening of an existing 10-year bond maturing in June 2036. Total bids for the bond reached €36 billion during ...

Greece’s parliament approved legislation late on Tuesday to fast-track deportation of rejected asylum seekers and allow their transfer to “return hubs” outside the bloc once bilateral agreements are reached ...

Former British high commissioner in Cyprus Stephen Lillie has been named as the United Kingdom’s ambassador in Athens. Lillie served in Nicosia between 2018 and 2022, and said that he was “...

Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, the leftist firebrand who ran Greece at the height of its debt crisis in 2015, has launched a new political party, promising to fight corruption and ...

Greek police arrested 20 people on the island of Crete on Monday, saying they had dismantled a criminal gang suspected of defrauding the European Union of agricultural subsidies – the latest case ...

The mastermind of defunct Greek guerilla group November 17, which carried out a 27-year campaign of assassinations, has been released from jail, two police sources said on Thursday. Alexandros Giotopoulos, 82, was ...