Europe may have set the bar too high on its climate goals without focusing enough on economic competitiveness, the president of Cyprus said on Friday, adding to a growing debate on the pace of reforms.

Sales rose 4.4% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2024, a number not satisfactory to retailers.

Banks face the challenge of sustaining their recent profitability and must consider raising their commissions without harming small depositors, Gikas Hardouvelis, National Bank of Greece chairman as well chairman of the Hellenic Bank Association has said.

The Greek language is poised for unprecedented digital accessibility with the integration of the Historical Dictionary of Modern Greek into the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) at the University of California, Irvine.

A recent study by the Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development  has highlighted key challenges facing Greek museums and archaeological sites

Rousos Koundouros, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Directorate of Political Affairs, has resigned.

To alleviate the housing crunch, the government is considering further incentives for property owners who decide to switch from Airbnb-type short-term rentals to long-term ones.

A few weeks before the US elections, Devlet Bahceli, Turkey’s extreme nationalist, “Kurd slayer” and junior partner in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, sent shock waves through the National Assembly when he shook the hands of members of the Kurdish DEM party, whose closure he had been demanding till then.

The Director of the British Museum spoke about the museum’s renovation and modernization efforts, the Parthenon Marbles, and last year’s scandal involving missing antiquities, in an interview with the Financial Times.

Amid the growing urgency of the climate crisis, there is an increasing need for the rational and sustainable management of natural resources.

PPC, Greece’s dominant electricity provider, showed strong operating profitability in the first nine months.

An Intelligence and Counterintelligence Academy is being established as an educational wing of Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP), state broadcaster ERT has reported. 

People attend commemorative celebrations inside the Athens Polytechnic, to mark the 51st anniversary of a 1973 student uprising against the military junta that ruled the country at the time, in Athens, Greece, on November 15, 2024.

Two minors, aged 15 and 13, were arrested by the police on charges of forming a criminal gang and committing robbery in the Alimos area of southern Athens. A third minor is still being sought.

An emergency alert via 112 has been issued for Thessaly, Evia, Fthiotida, and the Sporades, warning of hazardous weather conditions.

A 61-year-old man has been arrested on the island Chios after reportedly shooting and wounding an older brother earlier in the week, state broadcaster ERT has reported. 

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held talks with farmers on the outskirts of Athens Friday, stressing the potential of a 150-million-euro support plan for greenhouse farming. 

The week closed with rising bond prices and falling yields as capital markets anticipate Fitch’s credit rating review for Greece on November 22.

On October 29, 1974, the last bus carrying Greek-Cypriot and Greek prisoners of war from the Turkish invasion arrived at the Ledra checkpoint in Nicosia.