In a landmark decision, Greece will now allow women to serve in its National Guard. This historic change, announced by Deputy Minister of National Defense Ioannis Kefalogiannis, permits women who are members of the reserve forces and permanent residents of their service regions to volunteer for the National Guard.

The Eastern Mediterranean is an area vital to Greek and Cypriot interests, and Turkish belligerence in the region is definitely disturbing in Athens and Nicosia, but also Jerusalem, Beirut, Tehran, Erbil, Baghdad, as well as in the homes of common folk in Damascus.

Adrianos Golemis, a Greek physician working for the European Space Agency (ESA), is playing a crucial role in keeping astronauts healthy and safe during space missions.

With two “last-minute” announcements, the year and the cycle of announcements of new benefits for 2024 comes to a close. In his speech before the new state budget was passed in parliament yesterday, in addition to announcing the measures for banks, Kyriakos Mitsotakis also outlined a small package of benefits (“exhausting to the fullest the fiscal margins,” he said), emphasizing 130.000 minimum wage earners who are exempt from paying for their medicines and will get them for free, and additionally 150,000 uniformed workers who will be recognized for the dangerousness of the services they provide.