While Greece’s public health system today benefits from improved equipment and a highly skilled medical workforce it continues to suffer from limited access, chronic underfunding and severe shortages in key personnel, particularly nurses. www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

We've been here before. And it was a fiasco. www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...

“In my attempt to address the subsidy abuse by changing OPEKEPE, I was insulted, threatened – both I and my family – and bullied,” he said. So is the mob in charge in Greece, or what? www.ekathimerini.com/politics/128...

Interesting read: Internal documents obtained by Solomon reveal the EU urged Greece to launch a vaccination campaign against sheeppox. Athens refused — and now the country faces one of its worst livestock crises in decades. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

The subsidy fraud, the tolerance for crime (from driving without a license to drug trafficking and vendettas) are signs of an indifferent state and a society where citizens seem to have lost the strength to resist. www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1286...

Another day, another rescue operation off the coast of Gavdos, the European southernmost island. People are crossing from North Africa in a dinghy! www.ekathimerini.com/news/1286193...

- Hellenic Train, the company that exploits the trains, says this happened - Passengers on the train say this happened - OSE, the company that exploits the railway infrastructure, says this did not happen - Deputy Minister of Transport, says this did not happen www.ekathimerini.com/news/1285971...

Among the charges cited by the court of appeal: manslaughter by negligence in international waters but within Greece's rescue zone, exposure by negligence with legal obligation to rescue people that resulted in death & repeated exposure by omission of other people to danger bbc.com/news/article...

Greece Emerges as Eurozone Outlier on Worker Protections www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new... The latest wage tracker from the European Central Bank reveals that only 10.6% of workers in Greece are covered by collective labour agreements, the lowest rate in the currency bloc by a wide margin.

Pupils injured when plaster fall on their heads in eastern Attica www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2025/11/05/p...

The poorest households feel the strain most acutely. In Greece’s lowest income bracket, one-fifth of the population spends more than a third of its total budget on food alone. www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

#Greece 97% of citizens consider corruption to be “fairly to very widespread” 92% state that they do not trust the media 86% the political parties 71% the judiciary 65% the government 66% the independent authorities. Can you consider this a failed state? www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1285...

42% of respondents opted for “chaos,” while only 30% supported Prime Minister Mitsotakis, and another 28% preferred “other” options such as a coalition government, a national unity cabinet, or a change in party leadership. www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

Today Greek riot police used truncheons and tear gas against primary school teachers, parents and children who protested against sudden government decision to merge primary school in middle of school year. Children had to be taken to hospital. www.news247.gr/ellada/i-ast...

Karystianou whose daughter was killed in #Tempi has emerged as the unlikely figurehead of a wave of protests against the political establishment in #Greece “Greece has gone off the rails and remains there,” she told POLITICO juxtaposing the train crash&Greek politics www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Greece’s anti-money laundering authority is investigating G. Xylouris,a farmer from Crete & until recently member of the ruling party. Some €2.5 million was discovered in his bank accounts during random inspection. 8 vehicles were identified in his possession, including a Jaguar luxury car.

This year 26.9% of the Greek population will be at risk of poverty or social exclusion – an increase of 0.8% compared to previous year. The Minimum Guaranteed Income (MGI) covers only 60% of the poverty line, considered insufficient by European standards. www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1284...

It seems like the Greek government doesn't want to let any opportunity go to waste to antagonsie the surviving relatives of the deadly Tempi railway crash. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/128...

Greece, where schools are closing and detention centres are opening www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/soc...

Inspectors of the European Anti-Fraud Office (Olaf) on Monday conducted an on-site investigation at the main offices of the disgraced and now disbanded Greek Payment Authority of Common Agricultural Policy (OPEKEPE). www.tovima.com/society/olaf...

Greece Among the World’s Best Countries for Retirement - for foreigners perhaps. For Greek retirees not so much. www.tovima.com/world/greece...

“Return, or prison”: Inside IOM and Greece’s failing migrant return scheme: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio... IOM’s office in Greece pledged to return 16,500 people between 2019 and 2022. It only managed to return around 10,600 people, even after the programme was extended by 10 months.

Part of disputed procurements were financed through EU funds, raising the likelihood of a criminal investigation by EPPO. If confirmed, this would mark 2nd major EPPO case involving Greek local authorities after earlier probe into recycling equipment purchases. www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1283...

“Our own technical consultants will come from abroad, because in Greece we no longer trust anything after what we have seen and experienced.” www.ekathimerini.com/news/1283241...

Αριστεία "Greece’s attempt to lure back top scientists risks unraveling amid funding delays that have left researchers unable to start their work." www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1282...

Greek Voters See Corruption and Ineffectiveness at Heart of Government, Survey Finds - A government that is led by someone who was once heralded as a Harvard-educated market-friendly reformer. www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

www.tovima.com/society/xant... According to xanthinews, the officer, acting without any authority, drove the victim to a remote field, where he brutally beat him before leaving him behind. The policeman later claimed during his arrest that he mistook the man for an “illegal migrant.”

Many Greeks have questioned certain politicians' leftist credentials over the years www.ekathimerini.com/politics/128...

According to recent polls, a large majority of Greeks believe the government attempted to conceal evidence about the cause of the accident. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

www.reuters.com/business/ene... - Faulty power lines are top cause of wildfires, data shows - Underinvestment during debt crisis worsened grid issues - Local authorities plan legal action against power distributor And government sees arsonists everywhere

The families who fled say they are among Europe’s first climate refugees: displaced by extreme weather, priced out of nearby rentals and stuck in bureaucratic limbo as the government studies whether, and where, to rebuild entire communities. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Numerous reports over the past 6 months note Greece’s depleting reserves and predict that, if the situation continues unabated, Athens’ existing water supply will be sufficient for just another one to 2 years. www.tovima.com/climate/athe...

On Thursday, the opposition parties accused the government of torpedoing the investigation from the outset as it rejected a list of key witnesses named in a case file sent to the parliament by the EPPO, including political figures. www.politico.eu/article/eu-g...

Greece has suspended the rejection of asylum applications, as authorities face a lack of detention capacity under a new migration law. I did not see that coming. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/128...

Between Thursday night and Friday evening, the coast guard intercepted four boats: one carrying 25 migrants to Kaloi Limenes, 73 people to Sfakia, 56 to Gavdos, and 61 to Palaiochora. Most were from Egypt and Sudan. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1280702...

Minister of Migration and Asylum Thanos Plevris has issued a circular replacing the term “irregular migration” with “illegal migration” in all official documents, ministry sources said on Friday. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/128...

A second report by Greece’s Fire Service has attributed a wildfire near a nursing home in Patra to “spotting,” not arson www.ekathimerini.com/news/1280365... Two men, aged 21 and 25, are in pretrial detention over the case.

Marinakis: Tax breaks are salary increases www.amna.gr/en/article/9... Greek government newspeak

During yesterday's press conference, PM Mitsotakis claimed he was not aware of this: tovima.com/finance/ec-t... EC Takes Actions Against Greece Over VAT non-Compliance

Greece is not at risk of an “invasion” from undocumented migrants, as Plevris likes to trumpet. It is at risk from former cadres of the now-defunct populist far-right LAOS party gaining the upper hand. www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1280...

In reality, OPEKEPE is looking like a con conducted at the behest of the same political elite that landed Greece in such catastrophic financial waters to begin with. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Greek Anti-Money Laundering Authority has uncovered a betting system gap exploited by legal betting companies to launder money on behalf of customers, including high-ranking civil servants, among them ministry officials. www.ekathimerini.com/news/1279808...

Politically, the middle class is often described as the “backbone” of society and economy, supporting consumption, taxation & social stability. However, after the financial crisis of 2009–2019, this group shrank due to falling incomes, high taxes & rising inequalities. www.tovima.com/finance/who-...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

#Greece: Ali Faryad, a 46-year-old man from Pakistan, was deliberately misled by a company to board a tanker of 🇬🇷 interests, flying the 🇲🇭flag, & received threats to his life to continue working 10-hour shifts. Greece has been convicted by the #ECtHR for #humantrafficking of #migrants before...

Even after exiting bailout supervision in 2018, Greece continues to rely disproportionately on indirect taxes — VAT, excise duties, and consumer levies — compared with eurozone peers. Indirect taxes amount to roughly 4% of GDP above the eurozone average. www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...

"Among those detained are a police officer and two members of the armed forces, one from the Navy and one from the Air Force." "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" www.ekathimerini.com/news/1279524...

A former senior Greek government official, involved in drawing up a law allowing non-state, private universities, has now taken up the role of rector at one of the first four such institutions to be licensed. www.tovima.com/society/ex-e...

When the summer belongs to everyone but Greeks | The more Greeks are excluded from the Greek summer, the more they will reject a tourism model that treats them solely as cheap labor.

[Israelis] invest in [...] apartments in central Athens to luxury residences in the high-value seaside suburbs of Voula and Vouliagmeni and to hotels from central Athens to the Aegean islands. They also offer fully serviced apartments in Athens and beyond. www.ekathimerini.com/economy/real...