Greece’s LGBTQ+ community responds to recent attack
This summer, Thessaloniki is set to host EuroPride, a pan-European celebration held in a different city each year. Hundreds of thousands of LGBTQIA+ people and…
Greece’s Mitsotakis makes progressive pivot with same-sex marriage bill – POLITICO
Given that traditional family values would normally be the preserve of Mitsotakis’ conservative New Democracy party, it does beg the question of what he’s up…
Parthenon marbles row derails talks between UK’s Sunak, Greece’s Mitsotakis | Politics News
The Greek PM expressed ‘displeasure’ that Sunak axed their meeting, saying he avoided talks on the disputed marbles. Diplomatic sparks are flying after Britain’s prime…
Greece’s Diplomatic Push to Become an Indispensable Regional Power
A couple of months ago, France was engulfed by an explosive wave of civil unrest powered by surging interethnic rivalries. The dramatic images and headlines…
Residents, tourists flee wildfire on Greece’s Rhodes island | News
Residents and tourists have fled hot spots on the Greek island of Rhodes as firefighters, backed by water jets and helicopters, battle a blaze that…
Wildfire burns forests north of Athens as fires weaken in Greece’s south-east and west
A wildfire intensified overnight and swept along forests north of Athens for a second day, as firefighters managed to contain other blazes south-east and west…
Greece’s Prime Minister vows to legalise same-sex marriage
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Prime Minister of Greece, has promised to legalise same-sex marriage in a huge step forward for LGBTQ+ rights. “Same-sex marriage will happen…
Greece’s New Democracy sets ambitious goals in second term | Elections News
Athens, Greece – Jubilant supporters clamoured around New Democracy’s headquarters, floodlit in the party’s trademark blue, to celebrate Prime Minister-elect Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s return for a…
Greece’s Mitsotakis seeks second vote after election win | Elections News
Despite winning Sunday’s vote, the ruling New Democracy party was still short of winning an absolute majority to rule. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said…
Greece’s conservative party takes commanding lead in election | Elections News
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his conservative party have taken the lead by a wide margin in Greece’s election, according to partial official results. New…
Greece’s conservatives campaign on ‘firm but fair’ refugee policy | European Union
Athens, Greece – When Notis Mitarakis took the job of migration minister, he received a baptism of fire. In January 2020, even before he was…
Greece’s top court bans far-right party from May election | Elections News
The Greeks (Hellenes) Party is the first party to be disqualified since the restoration of democracy in 1974. Greece’s Supreme Court has agreed to ban…
How agritourism is giving a helping hand on Greece’s farms | Greece holidays
In a large sunlit kitchen on Eumelia farm, an idyllic agritourism and wellness retreat set amid the endless olive groves of Greece’s southern Peloponnese, my…
Gloriously unorthodox … Greece’s wilder side has plenty of adventures in store | Greece holidays
Zagori, Pindus mountainsThe Zagori region, in the remote north-west of mainland Greece, is dominated by the lush Pindus mountains, home to alpine lakes, the world’s…
Sorrow gives way to anger in Greece’s worst ever train crash | News
Larissa, Greece – Relatives of those killed in Greece’s worst-ever train accident stood in silence at the Larissa General Hospital amphitheatre, normally used for doctors’ seminars.…
Thousands protest in Athens after Greece’s deadly train crash, PM apologises for disaster
Clashes have erupted briefly between police and a group of demonstrators in central Athens on the fringes of a protest by thousands of students and railway…
Rescuers comb wreckage of Greece’s deadliest train crash
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the collision of the passenger train and a freight train “a horrific rail accident without precedent in our country,”…