SAMANDAG, Turkey – Habip Yapar felt lucky that his home in southern Turkey withstood last year’s devastating earthquake. Then a text message appeared on his phone in October telling him the government was taking ownership of the apartment.
SAMANDAG, Turkey – Habip Yapar felt lucky that his home in southern Turkey withstood last year’s devastating earthquake. Then a text message appeared on his phone in October telling him the government was taking ownership of the apartment.
The European Union, Canada, Japan and climate-vulnerable Pacific Island states are among 47 countries rallying support for a charge on the international shipping sector’s greenhouse gas emissions, documents reviewed by Reuters showed.
Brutality and extremism re-emerged in full force in the northern city of Thessaloniki in recent days, reminding us that far-right and ultra-conservative radicalization remains a serious challenge in Greece.
Nestled amidst holiday homes and tourist accommodations stands an architectural gem – a traditional “themonia,” as the locals affectionately call it. This quaint farmhouse, crafted from whitewashed stone, stands in accordance with the materials available in the region.
With less than two months to go before the start of the summer tourist season, industry operators are worried about the final number of workers who will drive Greece’s heaviest industry forward.
The net accounting result of the state’s investment in saving commercial lenders.
The first fatal attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping threatens to further sever a crucial maritime artery for global trade and carries with it risks beyond those just at sea.
The quality of the democracy achieved during the Metapolitefsi era, its institutional and financial performance, is held in much lower esteem by younger generations than older Greeks, a new poll has found.
The remarkable (if not yawning) chasm between the generation that experienced the entire cycle of Greece’s return to democracy and younger age groups born into the cycle of the so-called Metapolitefsi has been vividly illustrated by a poll commissioned by Kathimerini.
The European Central Bank meets on Thursday, with markets eyeing any nudge towards an interest rate cut as inflation weakens.
It takes a village to raise a child, as the old African proverb goes. But what happens when you need to hire – and, of course, pay for – that village? It is currently estimated that it costs around €13,000 per year to raise a child in Greece.
After 57 people were killed in Greece’s worst train disaster a year ago, the government promised to fix a system crumbling from decades of neglect.
Even though a year has gone by since the February 28, 2023 rail disaster near Larissa at Tempe, central Greece – which claimed the lives of 57 people, most of them young university students returning from a long weekend break – judicial authorities appear to have widened the scope of inquiries in recent weeks, adding more names to their list of suspects.
On a bleak anniversary for Europe, the day that marks two years since the Russian invasion on Ukrainian soil, crowds of Greek supporters of Ukraine’s fight for freedom gathered in the city centers of Athens and Thessaloniki, expressing their continuous support and solidarity for the Ukrainian cause.
The bomb dropped by former prime minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras as the leftist party’s congress was about to start is a high-risk gamble both for his own political future and that of his successor, Stefanos Kasselakis. Following the latest developments, another SYRIZA split might be imminent.
Greece’s agricultural population is aging. The country’s farmers have a low level of training and are largely stuck in the practices and reasonings of the past, characteristics that, in combination with others, affect the productivity and competitiveness of Greece’s domestic primary production sector.
Greek-American relations are experiencing a “golden age” right now, US analyst and senior fellow for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress Alan Makovsky told Kathimerini.
A new law in Greece allows same-sex couples to marry but excludes them from future parenthood through surrogate mothers, which could lead to it being challenged in court, according to legal experts.
For the past nine months, Kathimerini has been drawing attention to the judicial odyssey of Fredi Beleri, the mayor-elect of the predominantly ethnic Greek city of Himare in southern Albania, and to the violations of human rights, the rule of law and the principles of democracy entailed in his persecution
After a two-day parliamentary debate that began on Valentine’s Day, and following an occasionally fired-up political discussion that lasted for months, Greece has finally approved a landmark bill that legalizes same-sex marriage and grants adoption rights to same-sex couples.
Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. At least for the near future, it will almost certainly be the only one.
Lawmakers begin a debate Wednesday on a landmark bill to legalize same-sex marriage that would make Greece the first Orthodox Christian country to do so.