Greece

A phone scam using AI voice cloning to impersonate victims’ relatives generated more than €1 million in alleged illegal proceeds across Greece, according to police, who arrested two suspected members of the operation. The men, ages 23 and 25,...

People reaching retirement in Greece can expect about 21 years of life after pension age if they are men and 24.4 years if they are women, based on 2024 OECD retirement-age rules paired with Eurostat life expectancy data. Both...

Nearly nine in ten people in Greece (87.1%) struggled to make ends meet in 2025, the highest share recorded anywhere in the European Union, according to new figures released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU. The finding...

Greece’s “Fishing for Litter” program has removed 360 metric tons of marine waste from the country’s waters since October 2019, according to environmental organization iSea. The effort has also recorded 514,798 pieces of debris collected by fishing crews and...

For more than a century during the final years of the Byzantine Empire, the Greek island of Lesbos was ruled by a Genoese family whose unusual rise began with imperial civil war, political marriage and the shifting balance of...

Greece now borrows more cheaply than France despite its heavier debt burden, a reversal that reflects sharply different trends in public finances and government funding needs. On Tuesday, Greece's 10-year government bond yield closed at about 4.29%, compared with...

Greece has the lowest adult learning participation rate in the European Union, according to new data from Eurostat. Only 5.2% of Greek adults aged 25 to 64 reported taking part in formal or non-formal education and training in the...

Greece has recorded the highest level of work-related stress, depression and anxiety among all European Union member states, according to a new survey by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Nearly half of Greek workers, 49%,...

On September 10, 1922, a Turkish mob brutally lynched Metropolitan Chrysostomos, the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox in Smyrna.

Zorba the Greek, the story of Alexis Zorbas, is one of the most memorable films in the history of the genre, and the Nikos Kazantzakis book on which it is based is one of the best works of modern...