The Environment and Energy Ministry is for the first time hiring 340 permanent employees for the management of protected Natura 2000 areas in Greece, following an initiative by Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis, the ministry announced on Thursday.

The European Investment Bank is providing the Cypriot government with a 72-million-euro loan for a new national archaeological museum in the capital Nicosia.

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said on Thursday that food inflation in Greece has been hovering around zero in recent months and is, according to official data released by Eurostat, the lowest in the eurozone.

Alpha Bank said on Thursday it has reached a binding agreement to buy small Cypriot lender AstroBank for just over 200 million euros.

Piraeus Bank announced on Friday that its biggest stakeholder, Paulson & Co, has reduced its stake to 13.62%

Olympiakos and Panathinaikos returned successfully to Euroleague action on Friday scoring road wins.

The list of properties that the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) is putting up for utilization through concession tenders is constantly growing. 

The Gilad Atzmon Quartet, led by the renowned saxophonist of the same name, will present a tribute to the legendary jazz musician Charlie “Bird” Parker at the Theater of the No (3 Konstantinou Palaiologou) on March 1

The Social Security Debt Collection Center collected nearly 2 billion euros of dues in a year.

The International Athens Independent Film Festival, KINO Athens, returns for its third outing from March 1-9, showcasing over 100 indie films from around the world.

Greece has launched its National Cancer Registry, a major step in tracking and managing cancer cases nationwide.

Greece is in the top 10 countries in the European Union with the largest share of wind energy.

The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate released a statement honoring Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on his 85th birthday.

Bank stocks took their index to a new nine-year high on Friday.

Hundreds of Greeks gathered outside the Greek Embassy in London on Friday afternoon, on the second anniversary of the Tempe train collision that claimed the lives of 57 people, to express solidarity with the victim’s families and to demand justice and accountability.

Hooded vandals caused damage to the political office of New Democracy MP Fanis Pappas in Thessaloniki on Friday evening.

The conclusion of the National Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Organization is not only a document about what went wrong before and after the train collision at Tempe two years ago.

Besides Athens, mass Tempe rallies took place in cities across Greece, including in the country’s second-largest city, Thessaloniki, with hundreds of thousands of Greeks demanding justice for the Tempe railway disaster.

People have gathered in cities across the world to participate in rallies marking the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster that claimed 57 lives.

Several hundred thousand people demonstrated in Athens, demanding justice for the Tempe railway disaster, two years after the train collision that claimed the lives of 57 people.