The three main parties to the right of center-right New Democracy collectively represent around 20% of the Greek electorate, but continue to have relatively limited influence because of the deep ideological, political and personal divisions preventing them from joining forces.

Retail turnover is expected to surpass €4 billion this December, according to estimates from the retail sector, which is largely open for business Sunday. 

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ announcements on government intervention to address issues within the banking sector are expected to dominate Sunday’s fifth and final day of parliamentary debate on the 2025 state budget, to culminate with a vote on the budget.

The newly elected leader of SYRIZA offered an indication of the leftist party’s tactics going forward on Saturday, stating that society “does not want consensus politics or a tango for two.”

Authorities in Central Greece were carrying out an investigation over the weekend after livestock farmers reported the discovery, in a stream, of the rotting corpses of dozens of sheep, presumably victims of a contagious disease that has been spreading through the area in recent months.

The European Commission has pulled the brakes on the disbursement of loans from the Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF), which have been outpacing grants, so that these two forms of support can develop evenly until their completion in August 2026. Greece will submit its fifth payment request this Friday, December 20, for a total of 3.1 billion euros, which will concern both grants and loans. The request for grants will come to €1.3 billion, as initially announced, but the request for loans will be cut to €1.8 billion, instead of the initial plan of €2.3 billion. Accordingly, the entire planning of loan installments has been reformed, so that “it is more balanced with the grant installments,” according to a competent source. The new plan foresees that the last request, to be submitted on August 30, 2026, will be the largest. As Deputy Minister for National Economy and Finance Nikos Papathanasis told Parliament during the 2025 state budget debate on Friday, with the disbursement of the fifth payment request, the total disbursements from the Recovery Fund will reach €21.3 billion. This amount corresponds to 65% of the resources available to Greece, amounting to €36 billion.

Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Staikouras presented the projects and initiatives of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in the Region of Crete at an event held in Rethymno on Thursday.

For decades, Greece’s mountain villages have faced a steady exodus, their inhabitants trading altitude for the comforts of lowland cities.

The brand new Thessaloniki metro keeps having teething problems.

The decision to restore the damage sustained over the years by the dome of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has garnered significant attention from various media outlets in Turkey.

The university admission system in Greece often traps young people into an academic subject that they have not consciously chosen.

Tax authorities will be able to issue income tax assessments that will be determined based on the data available to the tax authority even one day after the deadline for submitting tax returns.

Our indifference to the news that “business closures are overturned by courts” has an explanation: the many loopholes of the law. The ingenuity of the offenders is proportional to the flexibility (weakness) of justice.

Restoring the dome of Hagia Sophia is an immensely complex task, requiring extensive scientific research and advanced technical expertise.

Having served at the Pentagon as undersecretary of defense under Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith had played an active role in the “war on terror” after 9/11 and in particular in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003.

Gamers all over the world play the games created by Ares Dragonis in his home in the central Greek city of Larissa. The 34-year-old was an avid gamer himself as a boy and wondered who designed the graphics and characters of the games he played himself back then, while he also had a talent for drawing.

Greek universities are on the brink of transformation, with the Education Ministry announcing a dramatic increase in the percentage of students admitted via placement exams.

The death toll from the capsizing of a boat loaded with migrants off the southern coast of Crete rose to five on Saturday evening, the Greek coast guard said, adding it had rescued 39 people from the sea.

A 35-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday for stabbing to death a 41-year-old man outside the Agios Eleftherios ISAP train station in Athens on December 8.