Greek anti-organized crime units have arrested 20 people in Crete — including a sitting municipal deputy mayor — over an alleged €3 million fraud against EU agricultural subsidy funds that operated for five years through three state-approved farm grant processing centres, with investigators tracking approximately 90 additional suspects.

Greece’s tourism sector posted strong growth in the first quarter of 2026, with travel receipts and inbound visitor numbers rising sharply and helping boost the country’s services surplus, according to provisional central bank data.

With the spring weather as its ally, the community of St. Demetrius in Astoria organized its annual festival from May 14-17 with great success.

Two people were arrested on Saturday afternoon in Thrace, as part of an operation by the Northern Greece Organized Crime Sub-Directorate, on charges of aggravated possession of a weapon.