Five years after his team presented a report that was supposed to serve as a blueprint for Greece’s transformation into “Europe’s California” with a new production model Christopher Pissarides takes stock of what has and has not been done.

Strong firefighting forces are battling a wildfire burning through forestland in Nea Kalyvakia, in the municipality of Andritsaina-Krestena, western Greece, officials said Monday.

Authorities in Crete are investigating whether a leak from an underground water pipeline is linked to the appearance of two significant ground fissures in the village of Voutes, in the Iraklio regional unit, that prompted safety concerns.

Greece’s justice system is investigating alleged links between NGO members and migrant smuggling networks in the northern Aegean, Shipping Minister Vassilis Kikilias said Monday.

Economic growth in the six Western Balkans countries is projected to moderately slow in 2025 due to weaker external demand and global economic uncertainty, the World Bank has said in a bi-annual report.

Facing sliding support among younger voters, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last week unveiled new financial support measures targeting renters and pensioners, key groups identified through recent focus groups conducted by his administration

Migrant workers in Cyprus should have the same rights as all other Cypriot and EU workers, a European human rights watchdog has said, warning that the poorly paid and overworked laborers were vulnerable to abuse and trafficking.

Anyone who has visited Tsintzina, the beautiful mountain village in the heart of Mount Parnon in Laconia, even once, wants to return again and again.

The news in 2023 that the Municipality of Agrafa in Evrytania, Central Greece, was offering financial assistance to young couples that wanted children made national headlines.

Greece’s public health system is launching a digital patient feedback platform aimed at improving hospital services.

Nektaria Stamouli, the deputy editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English Edition and Politico’s Eastern Mediterranean correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis as we look into the rise of Zoe Konstantopoulou and her party Course of Freedom in the polls, and break down Greece’s shifting political landscape.

Greece is the most popular destination for travelers this summer, Henley Vazquez, co-founder of travel agency Fora, told Bloomberg.

Acclaimed theater director Michail Marmarinos has been appointed artistic director of the Athens-Epidaurus Festival, Greece’s Culture Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

The Labor Ministry is promoting significant interventions in individual labor law with a bill that introduces changes in the arrangement of working time.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined key provisions of an upcoming bill on the safety and modernization of Greece’s railway network during a Cabinet meeting on Monday. He emphasized that the goal is to restore public trust in the network, which has been severely undermined by the 2023 Tempe train collision, the deadliest in Greek history.

Greece is moving carefully to ease tensions with Turkey while advancing key energy projects, amid sensitivities triggered by its new maritime spatial plan. 

Experts on Monday downplayed the risks posed by ground fissures in the settlement of Voutes, located in the Iraklio region of Crete.

The deadly Tempe train collision is back on the political agenda this week, as a new judicial file concerning the potential liability of former Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis is set to be sent to Parliament.

The Harvard University Hellenic Students Association (HUHSA), the first university-wide organization connecting the Ivy League school’s Hellenic community, will hold its launch event this week.

European travelers appear willing to turn to new destinations even in periods when there is no congestion.