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Remote Work in Greece Lags Behind Other EU Countries

A new report published by the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) on Friday suggests that only five percent of Greece's workforce works from home as part of their regular employment. This figure puts Greece in eighteenth place among the twenty-eight member...

Strong Greek Presence in This Year’s Australian Federal Elections

The Greek Australian community has strong representation in this year's Federal Elections in Australia. The Greek community, always politically active and interested in Australia's future, is represented this year by many of its members, who represent a wide spectrum of opinions,...

''Cretaquarium'': Greece's Largest Aquarium is on Crete

Cretaquarium, or as it is also known, "Thalassokosmos," is Greece's largest and most famous aquarium. Located near the town of Gournes on Crete, it is only 15 km (9 miles) east of the city and capital of Crete, Heraklion. The idea...

Athens' Alexander the Great Statue Vandalized With Graffiti

Just a few days after the official unveiling of the statue of Alexander the Great in central Athens, unknown vandals painted slogans on its base on Tuesday night. In yet another incident of vandalism, from which Athens and Greece's other...

Greeks Owe More Than €104 Billion to the State, Official Data Reveals

The latest figures published last week by Greece’s Independent Authority of Public Revenue (AADE) revealed that unpaid taxes to the Greek state now amount to the staggering sum of €104,365 billion. This massive figure highlights Greece's problem with tax evasion,...

Study Finds Greeks Are the World's Most Stressed People

A survey conducted recently which polled more than 150,000 people in 143 different countries suggests that the Greeks are the most stressed people in the world. Gallup's ''2019 Global Emotions Report'' questioned more than a thousand people in each of...

Magnitude 4.1 Earthquake Shakes Greece's Peloponnesian Peninsula

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 on the Richter scale hit southeast of the Peloponnesian town of Dimitsana on Holy Thursday at 14:18 local time (11:18 GMT). The epicenter of the quake was 29 kilometers (18 miles) southeast of...

Fruitless Search for Missing Polish Climber in Crete Called Off

An intensive search operation to locate a 64-year-old Polish man who went missing in Crete's Chania region on April 13 has now been called off. Search teams have not located the man, nor any sign of where his body...

Greece Leads EU in Reducing Number of Fatal Road Accidents

The nation of Greece has managed to reduce the number of fatal road accidents by 45 percent between 2010 and 2018, according to the latest figures published recently by the European Transport Safety Council. This puts the country in first...

Cyprus in Shock as Officer of the National Guard Admits He's a Serial Killer

The Cypriot Police are investigating the murders of three people after a 35-year old officer of the National Guard admitted that he killed a 38-year old woman, her six-year old daughter, and another woman. Police authorities found the body of...