Business leaders in Davos joined calls by US President Donald Trump for the European Union to speed up efforts to reduce regulation and increase competition to prevent the bloc from falling further behind other developed markets.

Egypt and a consortium made up of energy companies Total of France and Italy’s Eni will next month sign a key agreement to transport natural gas from an undersea deposit inside Cypriot waters to Egypt where it will be liquefied and processed for export, officials have said.

A councilor from the Municipality of Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni in southern Athens has been arrested for impersonating a police office and blackmail.

Among the big winners from the ceasefire by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea is the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP).

A violent altercation between youths erupted Friday on Pefkon Street in the northern district of Metamorfosi, leaving three injured.

Barry Adamson, the Manchester-born polymath known for his work with Magazine and Nick Cave, will perform two shows at the Piraeus Club Academy (105 Pireos).

The graying of Greece’s healthcare workforce reflects a growing EU-wide challenge, with a third of Greek doctors over 55 years old, according to Eurostat data. While Greece leads the EU in doctors per capita, concerns loom about generational gaps, particularly in the National Health System (ESY).

A 31-year-old man who killed a 15-year-old girl in a hit and run while driving under the influence of alcohol in October 2022 has been sentenced to 12.5 years’ imprisonment by a Thessaloniki court.

Farmers in two regional units of Central Macedonia are continuing their protests for a second day, with tractors parked along roads and in squares.

Greece may have a guilty conscience over its approach to the “Macedonian issue,” North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has suggested.

Police in Hania, Crete, have linked a 36-year-old man to a bomb attack in January 2024 targeting a serving police officer’s home.

A Cretan fisherman landed a catch of a lifetime when he hauled in the remains of a wing from what is believed to be a Junkers Ju 88 bomber from World War II.

The Council of State, the country’s supreme administrative court, has suspended all building permits issued under the New Building Code (NOK) where construction work had not commenced before December 11 last year.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and opposition PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis engaged in a heated exchange in parliament on Friday over Greece’s agricultural sector.

Charlotte FC transferred forward Karol Swiderski to Panathinaikos FC, the MLS team announced Thursday.

In the early years of the century, when neoconservatism peaked, the United States was set on imposing “regime change” on distant, hostile countries.

ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy on Friday began exploratory drilling for natural gas in a prospect west of Cyprus, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides said on X.

The Ministry of Education has launched an urgent administrative investigation into an incident at a vocational senior high school (EPAL) on the island of Evia, near Athens.

Defense Minister Nikos Dendias has praised efforts to strengthen ties between Greek and Jewish communities in the United States, during an award ceremony honoring former American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO David Harris. The event was held at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago.

The English rock band Inspiral Carpets, known for their success in the 1980s and 1990s with hits like “This Is How It Feels,” “Saturn 5,” and “Dragging Me Down,” are returning to Athens on February 22 for a show at Gagarin 205 (205 Liosion)