The EU is exaggerating spending on climate-friendly projects, potentially by billions of euros, the bloc’s auditors said on Wednesday, citing examples of countries claiming spending on IT systems and salaries as green.

The Flame Festival will transform the old OSY bus depot in Athens into a lively food party from September 12 to 15.

Athens Mayor Haris Doukas has urged the government to implement anti-flooding infrastructure following damage from storm Atena.

Greece is edging very close to both the European average and that of OECD countries in non-salary costs.

A large fire is burning grassland near hotels in Platanias, Hania. 

Storm Atena caused major traffic problems on the island of Rhodes after hitting on Wednesday afternoon.

We met with Nikos Petrou, the president of the first environmental organization ever to be established in Greece, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (HSPN), on a scorching-hot day in downtown Athens.

A forest fire broke out on Mount Athos on Wednesday.

A couple and their 2-year-old child are on life support after being hit by a car near the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday morning.

The number of hit-and-run incidents spiked in July and August, highlighting a bloody summer of criminal recklessness on the country’s roads.

The final section of Kifissos Avenue is not the only part of the country’s infrastructure that hasn’t been cleaned or maintained in decades.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Moscow hopes President Vladimir Putin can visit Turkey for talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan once preparations are completed.

Construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant is being delayed by Germany’s Siemens Energy withholding key parts required for it to be built by Russia’s Rosatom, which is seeking alternatives in China, Turkey’s energy minister said on Wednesday.

Turkey is interested in an offer from Tripoli to carry out energy exploration offshore Libya, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday.

Two individuals were arrested following a dramatic police chase in Acharnes, East Attica, on Wednesday.

Stelios Kouloglou, a former SYRIZA MEP, has claimed that main opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis considered leaving politics and even discussed a potential career change with a media executive following the party’s poor performance in the June European Parliament elections.

Berlin’s decision to impose temporary controls on Germany’s land borders is eliciting strong reactions within Europe, putting the migration issue back on the EU’s agenda just months after a historic agreement to resolve it.

The drop in waiting times for surgeries dominated Tuesday’s meeting convened at the Maximos Mansion by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Health Minister Adonis Georgiaidis on the National Health System (ESY).

Fresh cases of goat plague, also known as Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), have been detected in the Vartholomio area of Ilia, southern Greece, according to reports on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to meet Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netantayu in New York this month, according to well-informed sources, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.