Greece

The use of ramps for people with disabilities is an ancient Greek innovation that experts have recently confirmed.

Greece will ban plastic in the public sector as of February 1, Natural Environment and Waters Secretary Constantine Aravossis announced.

The small, round chapel of Agios Nikolaos Thon, near the corner of Alexandras and Kifissias Avenues, was turned over, fully restored, to the residents  of Athens on Sunday, Saint Nicholas Day. Unknown to all but a few, and previously sustaining...

Metro services in Athens will be affected on Thursday, due to the participation of workers in the 24-hour strike, which has been announced by trade unions. ADEDY, the public service union, is also carrying out a nationwide strike, demanding, among...

The Greek Police issued a statement late on Saturday night announcing that all public gatherings of more than four people in Greece's public places will be banned from Sunday, November 15, to Wednesday, November 18. This comes as Greece prepares...

Through a digital exhibition, Athens Concert Hall is allowing visitors a rare glimpse into the treasures housed at Mt. Athos, including amazing codices, illuminated manuscripts, and gorgeous works of art. Mt. Athos, located in Northern Greece, is home to around...

"The Greek-American community, either in Greece or in the USA, is voting massively Republican," the Chairman of the Hellenic chapter of the group Republicans Overseas, Jonathan Constantine, tells Greek Reporter just three weeks ahead of the election. "Greek-Americans in Greece...

Cyprus marked the 60th anniversary of its independence on Thursday with a military parade, although festivities were kept to the minimum due to the social distancing measures in place. Participating in the parade were motorized and infantry divisions and fighter...

After the country announced the presence of a total of 203 new cases of the coronavirus in Sunday, Greece decided to take swift action and introduce new measures to combat the spread of the virus this Summer on Monday. All...

Members of the public in Greece were disturbed and alarmed on Thursday afternoon after many of them received messages on their mobile phones purportedly telling them to "mobilize" due to a "military incident" which had occurred. Greek citizens were told...

A striking mural of iconic Greek actress Melina Mercouri, famous for both her career on the big screen as well as her life of activism, has kicked off ArtWalk's Fifth International Street Arts Festival in Patras. The impressive graffiti piece...

A rare silent movie of the Athens tram in the late 1920s was recently digitized by Greek state television (ERT) and was released on Tuesday. The astonishing footage, which dates from 1929, shows a two-carriage tram crossing the Koukaki neighborhood...

It is now official: Fax machines will be removed from Greek public services and governmental communication with citizens will be conducted exclusively online from now on. The new "Digital State," as announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, renders fax machines...

Greek authorities raised the flag of Italy on public buildings in Athens on Friday, including the Parliament of the country and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a rare move of solidarity with their suffering neighbors in Italy. Speaker of...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ), the supreme court of the European Union, ruled that three EU member states have breached their obligations under EU law by refusing to take a number of refugees who are stranded in Greece...