Greece

Tony Blair has said that the best way to understand a country’s development and prosperity is to calculate how many people want to leave it, but also how many ...

An earthquake rattled Athens on Tuesday morning with no reports of any damage or fatalities. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the quake, of magnitude 5.2, was off Evia island about 50 km (31 ...

Rating agency Morningstar DBRS has confirmed Greece’s long-term issuer ratings for foreign and local currency debt at BBB. At the same time, the agency affirmed the country’s short-term ...

Most Greeks struggle to build financial resilience, with more than half regularly running out of money before the end of the month, according to a new survey by fintech app ...

Greece’s parliament passed a law on Wednesday toughening penalties for rejected asylum seekers and speeding up returns to their home countries, hardening the country’s stance on migrants after ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday warned of “consequences” for any “third country” which seeks to obstruct the construction of the Great Sea Interconnector, which, if complete, will link ...

Ayia Napa and Greece’s Alexandroupoli have been twinned, the Ayia Napa municipality announced on Monday. It said Alexandroupoli mayor Ioannis Zamboukis had visited Ayia Napa over the weekend, and ...

Greek and German police have dismantled a criminal ring smuggling cocaine hidden in trucks from Spain into Greece and other European countries, police said late on Sunday. Two suspected members ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said he is “satisfied and proud” with progress made on the Cyprus problem in recent months. “The efforts made by the Greek foreign ministry at ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Monday night promised that the Great Sea Interconnector project, which, if completed, will connect the energy grids of Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, will go ...

Firefighters battled multiple wildfires across Greece on Wednesday, including blazes threatening villages and towns near the western city of Patras and on two tourist islands. Fires have burned houses, farms ...

Services production in the euro area increased by 0.2 per cent in May 2025 compared with the previous month, while the European Union as a whole recorded a slightly higher rise of 0.3 ...

Greece could extend a suspension on examining asylum applications passed by parliament last month if migrant flows from Libya start rising again, Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said on Thursday. In ...

JP Morgan has placed Greece firmly on its radar, describing the country as one of the top destinations for investors looking to reposition in emerging markets. In its latest earnings ...

It took just minutes for a new Greek-made anti-drone system to show what it is capable of. On its first test run with a European Union patrol in the Red ...

Greece’s four systemic banks have posted strong profitability in the second quarter, with projections indicating that total earnings could reach €4.7 billion by the end of 2025. According to Greek news ...

Greek parliament has voted in favour of setting up a committee that will investigate a government agency handling EU agricultural subsidies since 1998, following a scandal in which Greek farmers for ...

Half of Greeks are cancelling or postponing holidays because of financial pressures as summer spending rises and savings shrink, according to fintech app Plum. The findings are based on a ...

Greece will deploy a salvage vessel in the Red Sea to assist in maritime accidents and protect seafarers and global shipping, the shipping minister said on Thursday, following attacks on ...

Fast decreasing water levels in Greece’s reservoirs show the water scarcity challenges the country is facing due to climate change, and urgent reforms are needed, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ...

An Israeli cruise ship which was turned away from the Greek island of Syros on Tuesday after a mass protest was staged at the island’s port arrived at the ...

Labourers were pausing outdoor work and tourists seeking out shade on Tuesday as Greece sweltered under its third heatwave of the summer and soaring temperatures gripped the wider Balkan region, ...

Greek consumers are showing growing signs of caution as they reduce their everyday spending and shift priorities heading into the summer. According to the latest data from Plum, a fintech ...

Five people suspected of involvement in the killing of a University of California at Berkeley professor in Athens earlier in July appeared in a Greek court on Monday to respond ...