Workers at Athens Metro Lines 1, 2 and 3, and at the Tram have announced to launch work stoppages on Thursday, October 3, 2019. Train and Proastiakos workers have declared a 24-hour strike on the same day. Affected by the work stoppage are Metro Lines 2 and 3, Urban train …

Head of IMF’s Europe department “Poul Thomsen suffers from short-time memory loss,” said Syriza MP and former finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos. He was commenting on Thomsen’s claims that the Greek government agreed to high primary surpluses targets during the negotiations in the first half of 2015. Greeks accepted the high …

Greek Police and Coast Guard have cracked down a criminal ring that was trafficking drugs from Albania to Turkey via Greece. The traffickers were using a cave on a Greek island as storage for their drugs. They would exchange the cannabis for heroin from Turkey and bring it back to …

Greek Police has arrested three men on the Aegean island of Kalymnos for plundering ancient shipwrecks and removing more than two dozen intact pottery vases. “The antiquities dated from the 4th Century B.C. to the late Middle Ages,” the police said in a statement on Monday. The artifacts, 24 in …

The collapse of Thomas Cooks opened a big wound in Greece’ tourism sector. According to a survey conducted by the Greek Chamber of Hotels the financial damaged is worth 315 million euros for 2019. And it will reach over one billion euros in 2020. The survey was conducted by the …

The army chiefs of Greece and North Macedonia have signed an airspace patrol agreement on Monday. According to the Air Policing Agreement, Greek fighter jets will patrol the air space of North Macedonia. Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff General, Christos Christodoulou, and the Republic of North Macedonia’s …

Greece has announced a series of measures for unaccompanied minors currently in the islands hot spots in the Aegean Sea. Main target is to improve the living conditions of unaccompanied minors in Greece, Deputy Labor and Social Affairs Minister, Domna Michailidou, said in a statement issued on Tuesday. She stressed …

When in Greece, behave like a Greek and wish everyone “Kalo Mina” on the first day of every month. Καλό Μήνα is simple to pronounce and means “have a good month.” Locals, especially the elderly, keep the tradition and wish to family members, friends and neighbors a “good month.” However, …

Holding cardboard banners reading “Scorched Hearts”, about 200 women asylum seekers from Moria held a peaceful “sit-in” on Monday evening, a day after an Afghan woman lost her life in the fire tragedy. The protesters walked 300 meters outside the entrance of the Moria camp and sat on the street. …

Unions of private sector in Greece will launch a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, October 2, 2019. The country’s public sector will join the protest with work stoppages. Protesting the development law, the unions are going to paralyze the country as banks, public services, schools will be closed. Public transport …