Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis recently stated that the number of pupils who have been suspended for using a cellphone at school after they were banned at the start of the year had surpassed 6,000. This is just a fraction of the student population, which tells us that the measure is working so far. The vast majority of pupils complied with the ban, which, quite frankly, surprised me.

For lazy people, inertia is paradise. Antonis Samaras, the former conservative prime minister, is not lazy. His strenuous but ultimately unfruitful effort to pull Greece out of the crisis between 2012 and 2015 is proof of that.

Swedish doom-metal pioneers Candlemass will return to Greece this November for a performance at Fuzz Club in Tavros (1 Patriarchou Ioakim, fuzzclub.gr), following their standout set at last year’s AthensRocks festival

In August 2017, I met him in an apartment in a central area of Athens. For security reasons, his name could not be revealed, nor could his face be shown. The 25-year-old E. was the first Turkish citizen and supporter of the Gulen movement to be officially granted political asylum in Greece after the failed […]

A criminal investigation into suspected embezzlement and money laundering has been launched against two high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church in Greece and five nightclub owners in the Peloponnese.

As Greece celebrates Ochi Day on October 28 – marking the anniversary of the decision by Athens in 1940 to reject an ultimatum from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to submit to Axis forces or face war – the Ministry of Culture offers free admission to all public archaeological sites, monuments and museums in honor of the national holiday. 

Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides is expected to meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

Two traffic accidents in Athens left two people dead in the past 48 hours. 

Eight minors were transported to the hospital early Sunday morning after consuming alcohol at a nightclub in Athens.

The annual student parade took place in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Sunday to commemorate the national "Ochi Day" anniversary, on October 28.

“What happened was not a coup de grace, but a method that we were forced to use to weaken Hezbollah and neutralize its offensive capabilities,” the former head of Israel’s National Security Council, former director of Mossad’s research and intelligence division and former security adviser to Netanyahu, Uzi Arad, underlines to Kathimerini.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted importance of national unity ahead of “Ochi Day” in his weekly social media post on Sunday.

Fourteen people exhibited symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning on Sunday morning at a hotel in the village of Limnochori, Florina, in northern Greece.

Houses in the top category of energy certificates boast sale prices up to 125% higher.

A warm, sweet and beautiful creature embracing a genuinely curious mind. A noble and humble individual, whose caring soul glows through the tone of his voice. Bruce Lipton is traveling the world spreading the essence of quantum physics: “Everything is Energy!”

Nothing can really be regarded as “news” when it comes to corruption. Corruption is so ubiquitous, that nothing comes as a surprise anymore, nothing shocks us.

The most powerful motivation for a Greek of the new diaspora to return to the country is certainly their roots. Those closer to them. But this does not mean that the state should rely on people’s homesickness and sunshine to attract the talent that emigrated over the past few years. 

A news story by Turkey’s Anadolu news agency about Turkish officials stating that Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will raise the whole range of Greek-Turkish disputes in the Aegean during his meeting with Greek counterpart George Gerapetritis in Athens on November 8 has caused a stir.

The most convenient interpretation is that SYRIZA won the elections 10 years ago as an anti-austerity party rather than a left-wing one. This, the theory goes, led to a gradual loss of support as the party adjusted to fiscal realism and European rationalism.