Athens Jazz opens at Technopolis, launching its 25th anniversary edition with a weeklong lineup of 20 acts from Greece and abroad at the capital’s longest-running free music festival.

U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle has paid a courtesy call on Mykonos Mayor Christos Veronis, stepping away from her island holiday for an official visit to the seafront town hall where she was welcomed with a bouquet and introduced to the island's deputy mayors.

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.