Despite a significant decline in overall births since 1990, Greece has seen a fivefold increase in the number of births by women aged 40 and older.

Attacks on Lebanon this week showed that the Israeli government planned to spread the war to the region, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, calling on Western countries to take “deterrent steps” against Israel’s actions.

In the aftermath of last week’s rockfall that claimed the life of a 35-year-old Ukrainian woman, experts are analyzing data and exploring a range of interventions to mitigate risks from severe natural events in western Crete’s Samaria Gorge.

The government is attempting to carry out a comprehensive overhaul of the primary sector and pressing ahead with infrastructure projects that the agricultural world has needed for many years, such as irrigation works, Rural Development and Food Minister Kostas Tsiaras told Parliament on Friday. 

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday welcomed a European Commission report showing that value-added tax evasion in Greece had already dropped by about half, in a post on social media. 

Cyprus’s president called for restraint over escalating tensions in the Middle East in separate telephone conversations with the Lebanese and Israeli prime ministers on Saturday, his spokesperson said in a statement.

The next steps in Greek-Turkish relations will be at stake in a meeting on Tuesday between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. 

The government will dispose of approximately 10% of the 18.39% stake held by the state in the National Bank of Greece.

The European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (ECBCMM) completed one of its most important projects over the summer: the conservation of the ecclesiastical equipment of two churches of Imbros (Gokceada in Turkish), the birthplace of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and 42 portable icons from the Church of the Virgin Mary of Tenedos (Bozcaada in Turkish).

Athens-listed company Ideal Holdings is about to acquire a yet unnamed Greek industry with production facilities inside the country.

Billing will be done in real time, every 15 minutes, allowing small business to reduce energy costs

Greece will play a central role in the new Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art department in the Louvre in Paris, its director has said.

Vaccinations for Covid-19 will, for the first time, be available at neighborhood pharmacies as of this fall, in an effort to simplify the process so that an ever larger part of the population can get the shot. 

A court has sentenced a university professor to 17 months’ imprisonment, suspended for three years, after finding him guilty of attempting to extort his students.

A valuable ancient vase gifted more than 70 years ago by the Greek government to an Italian prime minister has been voluntarily returned to Greece by the former statesman’s grandson.

Greece’s current account surplus decreased in July year-on-year due to a deterioration in the balance of goods, the balance of services and the primary income account, while the secondary income account improved slightly, the Bank of Greece reported on Friday.

The commercial operation of the LNG Terminal at the Alexandroupoli FSRU in northern Greece will begin on October 1, Gastrade CEO Kostis Sifnaios announced, following a visit to the terminal with the ambassadors of EU member-states, as well as Switzerland and Norway.

Japan Tobacco International (JTI) is participating in the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises’ (SEV) “Skills4Jobs for Electrical Automation Engineers” program.

Cyprus is facing a significant water shortage, as dam levels have plummeted.

The overall turnover index in industry in July 2024 recorded an increase of 11.7% compared with the corresponding index of July 2023, according to figures released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on Friday.