Janissaries and Boules in Naoussa, Bell Ringers in Sohos and parades with floats steal the show on Clean Monday in northern Greece as they accompany the traditional events and customs for the "koulouma" and bring down the curtain on the carnival events.
An 8-year-old girl from Syria, lived through nightmarish moments on Friday (15/3) at the Reception and Identification Center of Kos, when an 18-year-old man tried to rape her in the toilets.
The producers of Pieria decided to share with the Greeks and the foreign visitors, the unique landscapes created every year by the blooming cherry trees and which have not ceased to fascinate them.
For the first time in Greece’s history, postal voting is being introduced, and the Consulate General of Greece in New York is pleased to invite Greeks to an informative event on postal voting for the upcoming European elections in June 2024.
Hellenic Police-EL.AS dismantled a gang that had stolen 40 cars and two motorbikes in Attica.
Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras participated in a trilateral working meeting of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania held in the Bulgarian capital on Thursday.
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis highlighted the importance of Alexandroupolis from a geostrategic, energy, logistics and defence point of view, while speaking at the East Macedonia & Thrace Forum II taking place in the Greek city on Thursday. Replying to the questions of journalist Alexandra Fotaki, he covered several aspects of the work of Greek diplomacy, such as the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine, relations with Turkiye, the Cyprus issue and the case of Fredi Beleri in neighbouring Albania.
The need for more flights from the United States to all of Greece and in particular Thessaloniki, emphasized the US Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis speaking at the conference “ Greece Talks_Thessalonika: Thessaly on the tourist map”, organized by Travel.gr in collaboration with Protothema.gr at the Megaro Mousikis.
The European Central Bank must cut borrowing costs twice before the August summer break and another two times before the end of the year, without being influenced by the US Federal Reserve, according to ECB Governing Council member and governor of the Bank of Greece (BoG) Yannis Stournaras.
The grocery retail sector in Greece has been on a steady growth trajectory in recent years, with regional and island areas consistently showing the most pronounced development, experiencing double-digit growth rates as indicated in a relevant study by NielsenIQ.
The ceremony for lighting the Olympic Flame at Ancient Olympia next month, starting the Olympic Torch Relay that will usher in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, is to feature a number of changes, including a new High Priestess, redesigned costumes and a new composer.
Ten shipwrecks, as well as important individual finds, dating indicatively from prehistory (3000 BC), the Classical period (460 BC), the Hellenistic period (100 BC to 100 AD) and the Roman years (200 BC - 300 AD), the Byzantine period (800 - 900 AD), even findings from the medieval and Ottoman periods, were discovered during the multi-year underwater archaeological survey in the maritime area of Kasos.
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Theodoros Roussopoulos is currently attending an international conference on gender equality in action (68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women) organized by the United Nations in New York alongside women from various parts of the world.
Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Sofia Zacharaki expressed her conviction that cohesion and competitiveness are complementary objectives for the European Union, which must ensure that no European citizen is left behind. She conveyed this sentiment alongside Finance Minister Kostas Hadzidakis during the joint meeting of EU Finance, Labour, and Social Affairs Ministers.