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MPs OK 2024 budget

The Greek parliament on Sunday evening approved the government’s 2024 budget, the first in 14 years with Greek debt listed at investment grade.

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13.11.2023 / 14:00

SYRIZA splits as several prominent members defect

Greece’s main opposition party suffered a split Sunday when a left-wing faction announced it was breaking away, accusing the party’s recently elected leader of abandoning its core ideology for a sort of “right-wing populism.”

10.01.2023 / 23:17

Former king of Greece Constantine II dies at 82

Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, who won an Olympic gold medal before becoming entangled in his country’s volatile politics in the 1960s as king and spent decades in exile, has died. He was 82.

23.09.2022 / 23:43

Mitsotakis, at UN, lauds value of cooperation

In his address to the United Nations General Assembly Friday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chose to emphasize the benefits of cooperation rather than rebut point-by-point Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s aggressive speech earlier this week.

22.08.2022 / 04:00

‘Enhanced surveillance’ ends

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis marked the end of the enhanced surveillance of the Greek economy Saturday by touting his government’s achievements, acknowledging past mistakes by all governments that nearly brought the country to its knees, attacking the record of the previous left-wing government and promising a brighter future.

17.07.2022 / 19:05

Body retrieved at Antonov crash site

Fire Service forensics experts operating at the crash site of the An-12 cargo plane have retrieved a body, Fire Service spokesman Yannis Artopoios told reporters Sunday afternoon.

04.07.2022 / 09:08

Europe helping Greece fight wildfires

The first of more than 200 firefighters from six European countries that will help their Greek colleagues in fighting wildfires arrived in Athens on Friday.

04.07.2021 / 10:48

Greece one game away from the Olympics

Greece’s men’s basketball team overcame a seven-point halftime deficit to defeat Turkey 81-63 Saturday in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Victoria, Canada and will face the Czech Republic Sunday for a spot in the Tokyo Olympics.

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