The favorable weather and the coinciding of Catholic and Orthodox Easter have led the occupancy rates of flights and ferry ticket sales to very high levels.

“How things change... I remember as a young man when I first moved to Athens, I felt that the people from the capital looked down on me. Now when I talk to Athenians about Kalamata, I feel that they are impressed,” says Sotiris Theodoropoulos, who returned in 2011 with a desire to reconnect with his roots. 

Trade wars have economic consequences for all those involved, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday.

Leading Greek businesspeople and representatives of tourism entities express cautious optimism to Kathimerini about this year’s prospects.

Leftist SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos on Tuesday said that center-left PASOK and the New Left parties were "failing to rise to the occasion," as the two opposition parties appeared reluctant to cooperate more closely with the party against the ruling Conservatives.

Early this year American energy giant Chevron expressed interest in exploring for hydrocarbons in Greek waters off the coast of the Peloponnese.

New Left, the formation that came from a split from then-main opposition SYRIZA at the end of 2023, has been sharply split over the question of a rapprochement.

Greek police on Tuesday arrested an 84-year-old man in East Attica for allegedly killing his 78-year-old wife during a fight. 

Inspectors from the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) conducted a raid on the Athens offices of Greece’s main railway services operator Hellenic Train on April 10, in search of evidence that could point to the company’s alleged abuse of its dominant market position.

A record 24,817 pupils have applied for a spot at Greece’s model and experimental schools, and also for the 12 newly launched Onassis Public Schools.

A homemade explosive device went off at the entrance of an apartment building in the northern city of Thessaloniki overnight.

Between 10 and 15 Greek satellites are expected to be launched into orbit over the next two years by the Ministry of Digital Governance in collaboration with the Hellenic Space Center.

Police launched a raid on a squat that has been occupied by anarchists in the downtown Athens neighborhood of Exarchia in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The close defense relations between France and Greece were affirmed Monday during the visit of French Minister of Defense Sebastien Lecornu.

A Cyprus court has sentenced a Syrian national to five years in prison for helping 31 Syrian migrants reach the east Mediterranean island nation aboard an overloaded boat, the attorney general’s office said Monday.

The government’s policy operates on two levels, preserving fiscal stability, on the one hand, while also unleashing growth enclaves, on the other, National Economy and Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Monday at the start of a press conference on the “Utilization of Financial Tools to Support Society and the Economy.”

The priority is the financing of housing programs, within the framework of the revision of the National Strategic Reference Framework, Alternate Minister of National Economy Nikos Papathanasis said on Monday, essentially announcing a new housing program from the fall, when the relevant negotiations will be completed.

Vassilis Nakkas, Christina Papakyritsi, Sotiris Tsoukarelis and Thaleia Pantoula stand in the courtyard of the old school in Demati, a village in the Zagori cluster in Epirus, northwestern Greece.

Bank of Cyprus made a bold move to strengthen its footprint in the local insurance market on Monday.

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