The next meeting of the parliamentary preliminary investigation committee on the Tempe crash is set for Friday, March 28, at 10 a.m., instead of the previously scheduled Monday.

Labis Tsirigotakis, a long-serving Greek journalist and state broadcaster ERT’s London correspondent for approximately four decades, has passed away at the age of 82.

Greece’s response to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis is proving inadequate, with high housing costs, insufficient wage increases and nearly half of households unable to afford basic necessities, according to a 2024 report by the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR).

French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu is scheduled to visit Athens on April 14 for his long-awaited trip, which has been pending since the start of the year.

A tragic railway station collapse in November 2024, which killed 15 people, has reignited public outrage in Serbia, reminiscent of the 2023 Greek train collision.

A legal challenge has been filed with Greece’s top administrative court seeking to annul the granting of the surname “De Grece” and Greek citizenship to members of the former royal family. The petition was submitted by Panagiotis Lazaratos, a law professor at the University of Athens.

Former Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras responded Thursday to a suggestion from his political rival, Evangelos Venizelos, to withdraw from active politics.

A fire that broke out on vacant land in the Tavros area of southwestern Athens on Thursday, burning wooden pallets and garbage, appears to have been brought under control by firefighters.

A parliamentary inquiry into Greece’s deadliest train disaster turned tense Thursday when opposition lawmakers walked out in protest at the handling of the testimony.

A senior leader of the Turkish criminal organization known as the “Daltons” has been arrested in Thessaloniki, Greek authorities announced.

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday, securing victory in a high-stakes vote at a luxury seaside resort in Greece’s southwestern Peloponnese.

Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis has ordered the suspension of yet another state forensic examiner amid allegations of misconduct. 

A man was found dead with a gun next to him in an underground parking garage in Kaisariani, Athens, early Thursday.

The agreement signed between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the transitional Syrian government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa is an important step toward improving the situation in the country, Professor Olivier Roy, a scholar of Islam and joint-chair of the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies and Political and Social Sciences department at the European University Institute in Florence, tells Kathimerini.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that illegal migrants denied asylum by Greece should be returned to their country of origin, and he urged the European Union to provide a new list of “safe countries” to help speed up returns.

Funeral services are being held Thursday across North Macedonia for dozens of victims of last weekend’s devastating nightclub fire, as grieving communities gather for burials in several cities and towns throughout the country.

A fire broke out in a plot of land in the Tavros area of southwestern Athens on Thursday, burning wooden pallets and garbage. 

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Greece’s National Organization for Medicines (EOF) have issued warnings about the dangers of unlicensed advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs).

AA new legal notice has been sent by relatives of two victims of the 2023 Tempe railway disaster to the president and members of the parliamentary investigative committee examining former minister Christos Triantopoulos' role in the handling of the disaster site.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has given his ministers a clear set of priorities, summarized in single-page documents enclosed in blue folders, with deadlines extending to 2026.