Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, held a meeting in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, regarding the issue of the Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

A proposal submitted by the leftist SYRIZA party to establish a preliminary parliamentary committee on the 2023 Tempe railway disaster has officially secured the required 30 signatures, advancing it to the next stage of parliamentary procedure.

Non-bank blue chips carried the Greek stock market higher for the second day in a row on Wednesday.

The Greek Basketball League finals between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos are set to resume, following meetings on Wednesday between the two clubs’ owners and Alternate Minister for Sports, Yiannis Vroutsis.

A total of 323 firefighters from six European countries will join Greek forces this summer as part of the EU’s Union Civil Protection Mechanism, in what is the largest single deployment in this year’s European firefighting support effort.

Authorities responded to a bomb threat at the Viokliniki diagnostic center in the Ampelokipoi district of Athens on Tuesday, after an anonymous caller warned of an explosive device on the premises.

Former police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas was sentenced to life imprisonment without mitigation by a Mixed Jury Court of Appeal in Lamia on Wednesday, nearly 17 years after he fatally shot 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Athens. 

Turkey will press European allies which plan to sharply ramp up their defense spending to ease restrictions that now require most of that money to be spent in the EU, Defense Minister Yasar Guler told Reuters on Wednesday ahead of a NATO meeting.

With its listing on the London Stock Exchange, Melten group will open a new chapter for the company, said its head.

Defense Minister Nikos Dendias announced that Greece will sign contracts for the acquisition of a fourth FDI Belharra-class frigate within 2025, with negotiations nearing completion.

A local survey in Halkidiki has shown that nearly two out of every five businesses in the sector are still looking for staff.

The findings of an inaugural evaluation of public services by citizens, unveiled on Wednesday at an event held at the Prime Minister’s office, revealed high satisfaction with digital government platforms, especially gov.gr, but also pointed to persistent issues in municipal services, including poor road conditions, inadequate sidewalks, limited parking, and low-performing construction permit services. 

The European Commission and the European Central Bank gave Bulgaria the go-ahead on Wednesday to adopt the euro currency from the start of 2026, making Bulgaria the 21st country to join the single currency area.

Within the next two to three years, secretarial services and call centers will be replaced by computers, predicted AI expert Dimitris Nikolaou, CEO and co-founder of Wondercraft, at the recent Panathenea festival.

A Greek appeals court on Wednesday handed down heavy prison sentences to 10 people found guilty over the 2018 wildfire in the coastal town of Mati, east of Athens, which killed more than 100 people in the country’s deadliest fire in living memory.

Geology Professor Paraskevi (Evi) Nomikos has been awarded the prestigious Fisher Medal by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI), becoming the first Greek volcanologist to receive this honor.

Apache helicopters of the Greek army fly as soldiers participate in the US-led Immediate Response 25 military exercise in Petrochori, northern Greece, Wednesday.

A 34-year-old man in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has been charged with multiple felonies, including animal killing, drug offences, and illegal weapons possession, authorities said on Wednesday.

Eleven Greek non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ahead of World Environment Day on Thursday, warning of worsening environmental degradation and calling for urgent policy action.

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias was expected in France on Wednesday for the launching ceremony of the third Belharra-class frigate, HS Formion, being built by France’s Naval Group for the Hellenic Navy.