Society

A plan by an anti-migrant group to stage an outdoor party featuring pork and alcohol outside a migrant camp near Thessaloniki on Sunday has caused an uproar in Greece. Parliamentarians clashed over the proposed barbecue and thousands took to social...

A prominent professor in the field of demographics warned on Tuesday that the future age mix of the Greek population will undermine the entire productive infrastructure of the country. Vyron Kotzamanis, from the Department of Urban Planning and Regional Development...

The European Spearfishing Records Association (ESRA) announced that Christos Simatis, a fisherman on Corfu, broke the world record recently by catching the biggest gilt-head seabream in Europe. The massive fish, caught by Simatis in September of 2019, weighed 6.905 kilograms...

A peaceful protest, this time organized by associations of Greek high school students, turned violent on Monday afternoon when a group of unknown individuals attacked police forces outside the Greek Parliament in Athens. At the exact same spot where similar...

American gaming giants Mohegan and Hard Rock International will battle for the rights to build a casino on the site of the former Athens airport at Ellinikon, as part of an enormous resort on Attica's coast. Mohegan has proposed a...

Animal abuse rates in Greece remain high, despite new, stricter animal protection legislation. In recent years, Greece has been among the countries with the highest rates of animal maltreatment, despite improvements in legislation imposing stricter penalties for animal abusers. Data shows...

A 45-year-old woman who went missing on Friday from the island of Folegandros was found on a dinghy on Sunday, many nautical miles from the point where she had been reported lost. The tourist, from New Zealand, was located by...

The Council of State, Greece's Supreme Administrative Court, announced on Friday that it is canceling the approval of a building permit for the construction of a nine-story hotel with a three-level basement and a roof near the Acropolis. The issue...

Nuns living in a secluded Greek Orthodox convent in the Laurentian Mountains, northwest of Montreal, have recently been fined nearly $75,000 for allegedly selling milk without a permit. They do have their own "Fromagerie" where they produce feta cheese -...

The act of ten young women, ridiculing the traditional student parade on OXI Day, has caused an uproar in Greece's political world and Greek society in general, with a "war" raging in social media over the issue. The ten women, headed...

The well-known Greek composer and lyricist Giannis Spanos died on Thursday, October 31 at the age of 85. With a career spanning several decades in Greece's music industry, Spanos studied at a young age in the country's national music school,...

Clashes between leftist students and police seem to have returned to central Athens for good since, for yet another day, the city center of the Greek capital was closed on Thursday, as thousands of students marched against the new,...

Greece's Peloponnesian countryside is truly mesmerizing in its beauty and diversity. It varies from gorgeous wild, craggy mountains to long sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters. Arcadia, in the very center of the Peloponnesian Peninsula, is especially famous for its mountainous...

Clashes erupted on Wednesday afternoon between a group of unknown individuals and police forces in central Athens. The incidents took place outside of the University of Economics (ASOEE) on Patission Street, when a number of hooded individuals began setting trash...

A massive Greek flag was fastened onto a rooftop, covering an entire house in Greece's Nea Kios, in the Peloponnesian Peninsula on Saturday. Ahead of the ''Oxi Day'' celebrations on Monday, October 28, Giannis Athanasopoulos, the deputy mayor of the...