Fire service faces 1,500 blazes every year, report says
eKathimerini — Officials at the Agricultural Development Ministry confirmed over the weekend that a fire on Evia that was put out last week after burning […]
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Probe ties Noor 1 suspects to fuel smuggling
eKathimerini — Prosecutors are probing the suspected involvement of some of the people embroiled in the Noor 1 heroin trafficking affair in cases of fuel […]
Foreign Ministry panel is to probe impact of Brexit
eKathimerini — The Foreign Ministry is setting up a working group that will be tasked with assessing the impact of June’s decision by Britons to […]
Banks offer incentives for deposits
eKathimerini — Greek banks are adopting reward programs and higher interest rates for savings, up to half a percentage point above the average for time […]
Athens’s first Mosque in 150 years
The Atlantic.com — On Thursday, the Greek parliament approved plans to build a state-funded mosque near the centre of Athens. Construction will cost around 950 […]
Municipality of Acharnes declares bankruptcy
eKathimerini — The Municipality of Acharnes, north of Athens, on Wednesday declared bankruptcy, the third to do so in the last 12 months. The mayor […]
Coast guard rescues 34 migrants off Lesbos
Greek Reporter — Coast Guard officers Monday rescued 34 migrants piled onto a dinghy off the shores of Lesbos. Although the migrant crisis had slowed […]
Greek islands overflowing with migrants amid EU fears Turkey will abandon refugee deal
RT — Greek authorities on several islands in the Aegean Sea are raising the alarm over an increasing influx of refugees from Turkey, which has […]
Protesters burst into Thessaloniki Cathedral and interrupt mass
The Guardian — Greek police have arrested 26 protestors who burst into the Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the northern city of Thessaloniki on Sunday and […]
Bogus Cretan olive oil sold in northern Greece
eKathimerini — The Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) and the police’s financial crime squad have uncovered a ring distributing adulterated olive oil in northern Greece labeled as […]
Four popular Attica beaches blacklisted
eKathimerini — Inspections by representatives of Greece’s National Center for Ecological Research (PAKOE) on popular beaches in Attica have found four to be unfit for […]
How to avoid being caught in rip current when swimming
As the death toll on Cretan beaches is rising a useful post was published on Facebook by Kenny Jewell ( thanks to Hezel Bridgewater/ Living in Crete). Kenny […]
UK joins Greece at bottom of wage growth league
The Guardian — Britain has suffered a bigger fall in real wages since the financial crisis than any other advanced country apart from Greece, research […]
Greece eyes constitution overhaul limiting MPs terms, defining role of Church
Reuters — Greece unveiled plans on Monday to revise its constitution. There are formal proposals for a clearer distinction between the state and the Orthodox […]
127K Greek workers are paid less than €100 per month
KeepTalkingGreece.com — The dramatic shrinkage of the earning due to recession, explosion of unemployment and dominance of flexible forms of employment is being reflected in […]