Greece recorded the third-highest share of domestic trips in the European Union in 2025, with 85% of overnight trips by residents staying within the country, according to figures released by Eurostat. France and Portugal also recorded domestic trip shares...
Greece hosted a Russian club in an official European team-sport competition for the first time since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as KOS-Sintez Kazan played a men's water polo qualifier in Athens on Thursday. Kazan lost 14-13 to Serbia's...
Greece's Ikaria has long been famous for its exceptional longevity, and now a Sardinian village is attracting attention for a similar reason. A new study suggests that Bolotana, a small mountain community in central Sardinia, could become another "Blue...
Only 8% of jobs in Greece's market-producing businesses were in foreign-controlled companies in 2024, the lowest share in the European Union, according to data released Thursday by Eurostat. Across the EU, the figure was 16%, showing how much less...
Theories depicting the shape of the earth swirled in embryonic form in the minds of Ancient Greek thinkers.
By Matthew Norman
Many pre-Socratic Greek philosophers were wrong about the form of our planet. Thales – founder of the Milesian School of...
Greek youth are more physically active than young people anywhere else in the European Union, according to new figures from Eurostat. Nearly every Greek between the ages of 16 and 29 did some kind of exercise outside work in...
In Greece, the Tsakonian language sits at the center of a wider dialect debate over how Europe decides which historic forms of speech deserve recognition and protection. Spoken in parts of the eastern Peloponnese, Tsakonian is the only surviving...
More than one in four Greeks cannot afford to take part in leisure activities on a regular basis, the highest rate in the European Union, according to new data from Eurostat.
The EU statistics agency found that 27.3% of people...
Greece has climbed four places since 2019 in a global travel and tourism index that measures how well countries can attract and support visitors, according to a new World Economic Forum report.
The country ranked 21st out of 110 economies...
In 1923, as the population exchange between Greece and Turkey separated communities that had lived side by side for generations, two Greek sisters left their home in Honaz, Asia Minor, entrusting some of their most precious belongings to the...
