Ekathimerini Yunanistan

Crime and prevention

Crime and prevention

The shocking acts allegedly committed by self-confessed murderer Eirini Mourtzou...

Sanitation worker attacked during overnight shift in Nikaia

Sanitation worker attacked during overnight shift in Ni...

A man was arrested in the Athens suburb of Nikaia-Aghios Ioannis Rentis after as...

Cyprus fares better now on corruption

Cyprus fares better now on corruption

Cyprus is making headway in the fight against corruption, according to the Europ...

Welcome to your job interview. Your interviewer is AI

Welcome to your job interview. Your interviewer is AI

When Jennifer Dunn, 54, landed an interview last month through a recruiting firm...

Cyprus trade deficit widens 2.3% in first five months of 2025

Cyprus trade deficit widens 2.3% in first five months o...

Cyprus’ trade deficit for the first five months of the year recorded an increase...

ELSTAT: June inflation hits 2.8%

ELSTAT: June inflation hits 2.8%

Inflation climbed to its highest point of the year last month in Greece, dangero...

Avramar creditors sign agreement with Aqua Bridge

Avramar creditors sign agreement with Aqua Bridge

The creditor banks of Avramar and the Arab-owned Aqua Bridge fund have signed a ...

Greek-Russian businessman visits Thessaloniki after 5.5 years

Greek-Russian businessman visits Thessaloniki after 5.5...

For the first time in five years, Greek-Russian businessman Ivan Savvidis return...

Ministry responds to hoteliers

Ministry responds to hoteliers

The Ministry of Labor and Social Security has responded to the Panhellenic Hotel...

Greece slashing migrant benefits

Greece slashing migrant benefits

The government is tightening its migration policy, with new legislation and shar...

Out-of-court debt settlements soar

Out-of-court debt settlements soar

June posted a historic high in debt settlements under the out-of-court mechanism...

Valuing the first 1,000 properties of ETAD

Valuing the first 1,000 properties of ETAD

By the end of July, nine companies are expected to undertake the task of assessi...

Greek tax compliance rises on back of digital tools, says AADE

Greek tax compliance rises on back of digital tools, sa...

Data from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) show high tax comp...

Greece PM defends halt to asylum processing for North African migrants

Greece PM defends halt to asylum processing for North A...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has defended his government’s decision ...

Māori-Greek artist’s work shines on Manhattan billboard

Māori-Greek artist’s work shines on Manhattan billboard

Māori-Greek artist Jimmy James Kouratoras has made a high-profile return to New ...

Athens and Brussels focus on Libya as migration takes center stage

Athens and Brussels focus on Libya as migration takes c...

Alexandra Voudouri, Kathimerini’s Brussels correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis a...

New conservative initiative fuels talk of Samaras comeback

New conservative initiative fuels talk of Samaras comeback

A new political initiative launched in Athens on Thursday by a group of academic...

Fire at recycling facility triggers emergency alert near Thessaloniki

Fire at recycling facility triggers emergency alert nea...

A large fire broke out on Friday morning in the Sindos Industrial Zone, west of ...

One in three Greek SMEs engaged with AI tools, survey shows

One in three Greek SMEs engaged with AI tools, survey s...

One in three small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Greece has engaged wit...

Natural gas consumption up 12.4% in first half of year

Natural gas consumption up 12.4% in first half of year

Driven by electricity generation, natural gas is steadily solidifying its role i...

Students clash with police outside university rectors’ meeting over draft bill

Students clash with police outside university rectors’ ...

Tensions flared on Friday outside a hotel in Anavyssos, eastern Attica, where Gr...

Basilica complex in northern Philippi site to be restored

Basilica complex in northern Philippi site to be restored

The Culture Ministry is restoring the Basilica A complex, including its ancient ...

Athens traffic crisis deepening

Athens traffic crisis deepening

The average Athenian loses approximately 100 hours annually stuck in traffic, as...

Fire breaks out at laundry business on Mykonos

Fire breaks out at laundry business on Mykonos

Firefighters were battling a blaze at a laundry business on the island of Mykono...

Athens Airport passengers up 5% in June

Athens Airport passengers up 5% in June

Athens International Airport saw a modest, single-digit increase in passenger tr...

Campaigners threaten legal action over Parthenon Marbles return talks

Campaigners threaten legal action over Parthenon Marble...

Britain’s former prime minister Liz Truss, historian David Starkey, and Conserva...

Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in Iraq to start disarmament

Kurdish PKK militants burn weapons in Iraq to start dis...

Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants have burned their weapons at the ...

Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since WWII

Thousands gather in Srebrenica on 30th anniversary of E...

Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world gathered in Srebrenica to m...

Reading Athens like a living text

Reading Athens like a living text

Columbia University’s Global Center in Athens hosted summer seminars that brough...

Parliament approves amendment to curb migrant arrivals from North Africa

Parliament approves amendment to curb migrant arrivals ...

MPs have voted to temporarily stop processing asylum requests from migrants arri...

AI-powered autopsies to be introduced following Patra forensics failures

AI-powered autopsies to be introduced following Patra f...

Forensic doctors across Greece will soon conduct autopsies using artificial inte...

PM Mitsotakis, Meta discuss online safety for children

PM Mitsotakis, Meta discuss online safety for children

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met Friday in Athens with Meta’s Global Head ...

PASOK in ‘utter confusion’ over asylum vote, says gov’t spokesman

PASOK in ‘utter confusion’ over asylum vote, says gov’t...

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis has criticized PASOK for abstaining fro...

US citizen accused of photographing minor jumps from hospital window

US citizen accused of photographing minor jumps from ho...

A 63-year-old US citizen, who was in custody after being accused of photographin...

Mouratoglou criticizes coach Ivanisevic over public remarks on struggling Tsitsipas

Mouratoglou criticizes coach Ivanisevic over public rem...

Renowned tennis coach and commentator Patrick Mouratoglou has publicly criticize...

Young bear dies after gunshot wounds in northern Greece

Young bear dies after gunshot wounds in northern Greece

A six-month-old bear cub died on Friday after being found with gunshot wounds ne...

Apogevmatini marks centenary as voice of Istanbul’s Greek community

Apogevmatini marks centenary as voice of Istanbul’s Gre...

Apogevmatini, the Greek community newspaper in Istanbul, has marked its centenar...

Ministry seeks €480m subsidy recovery

Ministry seeks €480m subsidy recovery

The Development Ministry is pursuing the recovery of up to €500 million in subsi...

Shipowners condemn attacks on merchant vessels, mourn deaths

Shipowners condemn attacks on merchant vessels, mourn d...

The president of the Union of Greek Shipowners, Melina Travlos, has expressed de...

Court convicts three over 2022 mafia-linked killing

Court convicts three over 2022 mafia-linked killing

A Greek court on Wednesday found three of nine defendants guilty over the 2022 m...

Fresh tensions over Greece-Cyprus power link

Fresh tensions over Greece-Cyprus power link

Tuesday’s teleconference on the Crete-Cyprus electricity interconnection project...

Escape clause on defense expenditure secured

Escape clause on defense expenditure secured

The EU’s economy and finance ministers approved on Tuesday the so-called escape ...

Turkey warns Greece against moves in Aegean, East Med

Turkey warns Greece against moves in Aegean, East Med

Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler said on Wednesday that Ankara would not tol...

Greece to suspend asylum applications for migrants arriving from north Africa

Greece to suspend asylum applications for migrants arri...

Greece will temporarily suspend the processing of asylum applications for migran...

Greek-French military exercise in Aegean as regional instability grows

Greek-French military exercise in Aegean as regional in...

Greece and France are holding a major joint military exercise in the Pagasetic G...

EU report: Rule of law improving, gaps remain 

EU report: Rule of law improving, gaps remain 

The European Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law Report on Greece highlights moderate ...

Rubik’s Cube owner loses trademark battle with Greek rival

Rubik’s Cube owner loses trademark battle with Greek rival

Rubik's Cube owner Spin Master Toys UK on Wednesday lost its battle against a Gr...

Four arrested for photographing Rafale jets, facilities at Tanagra Air Base

Four arrested for photographing Rafale jets, facilities...

Four individuals have been arrested after being caught taking photos of Rafale f...

Aegean resumes services to Beirut, Erbil, Amman

Aegean resumes services to Beirut, Erbil, Amman

Starting July 10th, Greek-owned Aegean Airlines will reinstate part of its fligh...

Greek ship attacked in Red Sea sinks: 4 dead, 7 rescued, 14 missing

Greek ship attacked in Red Sea sinks: 4 dead, 7 rescued...

Rescuers pulled seven crew members alive from the Red Sea on Wednesday and were ...

Overtime surge irks hoteliers

Overtime surge irks hoteliers

Tourism has emerged for the first time as the economic sector with the highest n...

PM Mitsotakis clashes with PASOK leader Androulakis over OPEKEPE scandal

PM Mitsotakis clashes with PASOK leader Androulakis ove...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis clashed with main opposition PASOK leader Nik...

Greek seafarers’ federation calls for Red Sea to be declared ‘war zone’ after latest attacks

Greek seafarers’ federation calls for Red Sea to be dec...

The Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) has called for the Red Sea to be offic...

‘What do you need to oil the salad?’

‘What do you need to oil the salad?’

Who is Giorgos Xylouris, the livestock farmer and co-op president known as ‘Frap...

EODY detects first West Nile virus cases of 2025 in Greece

EODY detects first West Nile virus cases of 2025 in Greece

The National Public Health Organization (EODY) has announced the detection of th...

Turkey launching ‘Island Cyprus’ tourism campaign for occupied north

Turkey launching ‘Island Cyprus’ tourism campaign for o...

Turkey is preparing to launch an international tourism campaign promoting the Tu...

No amount of retouching can hide the ugly truth 

No amount of retouching can hide the ugly truth 

Some people seem determined to drive us mad. They’re now trying to prove that Al...

Guilfoyle pledges to focus on defense and energy as US ambassador to Greece

Guilfoyle pledges to focus on defense and energy as US ...

Kimberly Guilfoyle, President Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to Greece, told ...

Greek court rejects extradition request for US national accused of running child exploitation site

Greek court rejects extradition request for US national...

A court in Greece has rejected an US extradition request for a 21-year-old Ameri...

Large wildfire rages in east Attica, village evacuated

Large wildfire rages in east Attica, village evacuated

A large wildfire that broke out at noon in Oropos, east Attica, continues to rag...

Five customs added to intangible heritage list

Five customs added to intangible heritage list

The Culture Ministry has added five new elements to the National Inventory of In...

Seizing the opportunity

Seizing the opportunity

For years, the Ministry of Education and educators have acknowledged that Greek ...

Turkey’s Eurofighter jets prospects gain ground

Turkey’s Eurofighter jets prospects gain ground

Turkey’s long-standing interest in acquiring Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets ap...

ATHEX: Stocks defy turmoil and keep rising

ATHEX: Stocks defy turmoil and keep rising

Athinon Avenue is sprinting toward the 2,000-point mark for its main index.

Cartoon (09/07/2025)

Cartoon (09/07/2025)

Energy firms join building upgrade push

Energy firms join building upgrade push

The government plans to deploy electricity providers to expand home energy upgra...

Trade deficit shrinks on oil prices

Trade deficit shrinks on oil prices

The lower prices of fuel products in the first five months of 2025, compared to ...

Patients to rate hospitals

Patients to rate hospitals

The government is launching a new digital platform to assess the patient experie...

Registry of benefits is ‘vital for social policy’

Registry of benefits is ‘vital for social policy’

Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis has stressed that the new register of we...

Minister briefed on space mission pilot program

Minister briefed on space mission pilot program

Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos was briefed on Tuesday on the National ...

French-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce event marks 140th anniversary

French-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce event marks 140th a...

The French-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce is organizing a formal dinner on Thursda...

New Airbus for Sky Express

New Airbus for Sky Express

Greek airline Sky Express is enhancing its fleet with the addition of a new Airb...

PM unveils tough new migration measures

PM unveils tough new migration measures

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced two harsh new migration measures fr...

Greece short of IT experts

Greece short of IT experts

As digital transformation and investments have been in the spotlight in recent y...

East Attica fire shows improvement after overnight battle

East Attica fire shows improvement after overnight battle

The major wildfire that erupted Wednesday in Asprochori, Oropos, in East Attica,...

Wildfire blazing in Thasos as terrain hampers firefighting efforts

Wildfire blazing in Thasos as terrain hampers firefight...

A large wildfire that broke out late Wednesday night in the forested area of Gly...

Trump’s pick for US ambassador completes senate hearing smoothly

Trump’s pick for US ambassador completes senate hearing...

Kimberly Guilfoyle, US President Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to Greece, t...

Questions emerge over past of self-confessed child killer

Questions emerge over past of self-confessed child killer

Eirini Mourtzoukou slouches in a pink armchair. Her tattoo-covered arms grip the...

Greek security officer rescued 48 hours after Red Sea attack

Greek security officer rescued 48 hours after Red Sea a...

A Greek armed security officer who was on board the Greek-owned Eternity C when ...

Woman confesses to killing three infants, sources say

Woman confesses to killing three infants, sources say

A 25-year-old woman has confessed to the murders of three infants, Kathimerini r...

Turkey’s youngest oil wrestlers keep a 14th-century tradition alive

Turkey’s youngest oil wrestlers keep a 14th-century tra...

On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys...

Maritime security firms launch mission to save crew of Greek vessel hit by Houthis, sources say

Maritime security firms launch mission to save crew of ...

Maritime security firms launched a mission on Wednesday to evacuate the crew of ...

ND mulling its own investigation proposal for OPEKEPE scandal

ND mulling its own investigation proposal for OPEKEPE s...

Ruling New Democracy is considering submitting its own proposal regarding the OP...

Greece rescues over 500 migrants off southern island of Gavdos

Greece rescues over 500 migrants off southern island of...

Greece rescued more than 500 migrants from a fishing vessel south of the country...

A church bombing leads Syria’s Christians to consider leaving as foreign fighters remain

A church bombing leads Syria’s Christians to consider l...

The day after last month’s deadly suicide attack on a church outside Syria’s cap...

Turkey blocks X’s Grok content for alleged insults to Erdogan, religious values

Turkey blocks X’s Grok content for alleged insults to E...

A Turkish court on Wednesday blocked access to some content from Grok, developed...

Greek PM to brief Parliament on migration surge from Libya

Greek PM to brief Parliament on migration surge from Libya

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to brief Parliament on Wednesday ...

Police raid Greek farm subsidy agency in EU funds probe

Police raid Greek farm subsidy agency in EU funds probe

Financial crimes investigators from the Hellenic Police (ELAS) raided the office...

Breaking down the runup to the big OPEKEPE showdown

Breaking down the runup to the big OPEKEPE showdown

A massive 3,000-page case file and dozens of wiretap transcripts are at the cent...

Millions lost annually as beaches fail to provide wheelchair access

Millions lost annually as beaches fail to provide wheel...

Greece loses an estimated €57 million annually due to limited beach access for p...

Merkel’s reflections on the Greek debt crisis

Merkel’s reflections on the Greek debt crisis

Iliana Magra, a journalist with Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis as we dig into...

Erdogan vows to protect PKK disarmament process, says ‘bloody shackles’ being cast off

Erdogan vows to protect PKK disarmament process, says ‘...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey would not allow any attem...

Feta company going global

Feta company going global

The successful penetration of Greek yogurt in the international market, besides ...

Turkish man injures himself after court green-lights deportation

Turkish man injures himself after court green-lights de...

A Turkish national injured himself in the neck on Tuesday after his request not ...

Buyers from abroad eye winter homes

Buyers from abroad eye winter homes

Greece is becoming a destination for acquiring holiday homes even in less promin...

Two Athens archaeological sites slated for facelift

Two Athens archaeological sites slated for facelift

The Culture Ministry is undertaking a major redesign and restoration of the Anci...

Woman who mistakenly received wrong blood transfusion dies

Woman who mistakenly received wrong blood transfusion dies

A 62-year-old woman who was mistakenly given a blood transfusion intended for an...

Death toll from Red Sea attack on Greek-owned vessel rises to three

Death toll from Red Sea attack on Greek-owned vessel ri...

The number of fatalities from Monday evening’s drone and speedboat attack on the...

Turkey’s TPAO buys two drillship from Norway 

Turkey’s TPAO buys two drillship from Norway 

Turkey’s state oil company TPAO has purchased two more drilling ships rom Norawa...

Authorities shut Acropolis due to high temperatures

Authorities shut Acropolis due to high temperatures

Authorities closed the Acropolis for several hours Tuesday due to high temperatu...

WhatsApp ile Yerel Basın Online Destek!