A new show in Athens tells how the Yorkshire sculptorโs sole visit kicked off a mutual adorationThrough the gargantuan windows of an art deco villa suffused with natural light on the slopes of central Athens, the monumental sculptures of Henry Moore st…
Two houses belonging to commissioner-designate Ekaterina Zaharieva and her husband Angel Zahariev in Bulgaria and Greece have aroused interest among MEPs, Euractiv Bulgaria learned from European Parliament sources.
Greece’s Apostolos Tzitzikostas has been tapped to helm the transport portfolio in the next European Commission.
POLITICO has reviewed the declarations of interest of every European Commission nominee.
Romania, Greece and Bulgaria have requested several measures to address the consistently higher energy market prices in Eastern Europe compared to Western Europe in recent months.
Hundreds of firefighters are working to contain the wildfire raging in Greece’s Corinthia region, which has killed two people and injured dozens more.
Key among the risks is the lack of a common deposit guarantee scheme, which could leave customers exposed.
EU Prosecutor Laura Kรถvesi has called on Greek politicians to change a law that provides ministers with immunity saying it goes against the European law and prevented an EU investigation over a deadly train accident that cost the lives of 57 people.
An email sent to the European Commission and Parliament chiefs is expected to stir the waters ahead of the upcoming hearing of Greeceโs commissioner candidate for the transport portfolio, Apostolos Tzitzikostas.
Germany’s centre-right CDU (EPP) has urged the European Commission, led by fellow CDU member Ursula von der Leyen, to fund fences at the borders of Greece and Poland as new German border controls increase the pressure on countries of first entry.
The new French government has vowed a tougher approach on migration.
Conservationists celebrate as efforts to save the Caretta caretta sea turtle, which has existed for 100m years, pay offAfter nearly a quarter of a century observing one of the worldโs most famous sea turtle nesting grounds, Charikleia Minotou is convin…
Southeastern Europe dealt with strong heat stress for most of the season, scientists said.
Germany has one last chance to overturn the tariffs at a vote by member countries. But getting the required blocking majority looks to be out of reach โ and would be without precedent.
Attica’s governor is pursuing a dogged fight to make his region safe, battling bureaucratic hurdles and lack of funding.
Greece and Cyprus have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to press ahead with a subsea electric cable linking continental Europe to the East Mediterranean, the energy ministries of the two countries said on Saturday (21 September).
The migration discussion has opened again for good in Europe with Germany preparing to step up the number of asylum seekers that it is sending back to first-line countries while Greece is planning to raise the issue at a summit next month.
Elisa Mantinโs film shows Greeks as the economic victims of ideologically motivated EU forces, imposing punishment-via-austerityMaybe the true Greek tragedy is the temptation to interpret everything that happens in that country under the long Hellenic …
Centre-right Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his satisfaction with Greece’s transport and tourism portfolio allocation in the next Commission. However, the candidate for the role, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, faces a challenging task ahea…
More than 50 people injured as 54 fires burn across country amid hot, dry and windy weatherSeven people have been killed and more than 50 injured in wildfires ravaging central and northern Portugal, authorities have said, after three firefighters died …
Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.
Commission president hands out the top jobs in her new team.
Nothing the West says or does will convince the Houthis to halt their campaign. But the Indian prime minister is perfectly suited to the task.
Party secretariat votes overwhelmingly to remove political outsider who succeeded Alexis Tsipras last yearA Greek American shipping investor and former banker who emerged seemingly out of nowhere to assume the reins of Greeceโs main leftwing opposition…
Greece outlined measures to boost its lagging birthrate on Thursday (12 September), from vouchers and childcare benefits to tax breaks for new parents, although experts questioned the plan’s effectiveness.
Romania will ask the Council for compensation for the much higher energy prices in its region compared to Western Europe, Romanian Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja said on Thursday, confirming that his country had joined forces with Greece and Bulgaria.
Premier raises alarm over โextremeโ prices in southern Europe from under-capacity and Ukrainian demand
The Bulgarian government is considering the possibility of taking control of currently privately owned parking areas where heavy lorries have to park and pay a fee before crossing the border.
A censure motion pushed forward by several members of leftist main opposition Syriza party in Greece was approved on Sunday and overthrew the 36-year-old Stefanos Kasselakis from the leadership of the party.
Greece plans to impose a 20-euro levy on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini and Mykonos during the peak summer season, in a bid to avert overtourism, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday (8 September).
Ursula von der Leyen is about to hand out key jobs in her team. Hereโs POLITICOโs version of the next Commission.
Curbs on short-term rentals and cruise ship traffic could damage crucial sector, warns hospitality industry
Greek health economists support the creation of a โฌ1,4 billion National Cancer Fund, a strategy for financing oncology care that leverages existing revenues, such as excise duties.
In todayโs edition of the Capitals, find out more about bomb threats targetting Czech and Slovak schools, Turkey and Greece seeking to bypass the Bulgarian transport chaos, and so much more.
Transport operators from Turkey and Greece have united around the idea of finding an alternative corridor to bypass Bulgaria because of the ongoing transport chaos in the country, the Chamber of the Bulgarian Road Hauliers (CBRH) has said.
Heatwaves and lack of rainfall have led to receding water levels in the Mornos reservoir, which submerged Kallio in the 1970sNo place is more indicative of plummeting rainfall levels in Greece than the Mornos reservoir. And no settlement is more indica…
Greeceโs main opposition leftist Syriza party should put an end to its internal divisions and take initiatives to speak to other progressive forces, EU lawmaker Nikolas Farantouris told Euractiv, adding that he stands ready to claim the partyโs leaders…
The new regulations and system of penalties are an extension of rules education minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis announced in March which saw pupils face expulsion for filming classmates and ridiculing them online in a bid to clamp down on cyberbullying.
Locals and tourists alike complain that navigating the Greek capitalโs sidewalks by foot can be fraught with perilEarly this year I took a fall. In broad daylight, on a street in downtown Athens, I tripped, clipping my right foot on a marble step jutti…
Rome is targeting a portfolio overseeing regional funding and the bloc’s post-pandemic cash.
Long-dated debt and slow growth means that overall borrowing costs will stay high and debt burdens heavy.
Nikos Zorzos calls for urgent action to halt the construction spree he says presents an existential threat to Greek islandSantorini, the island so instagrammable it has become Greeceโs most popular destination, will not be able to โsave itselfโ if runa…
Martin Vladimirov is director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy. Announcing its plans for what could be called TurkStream 2 on Aug. 21, Turkey finally dropped all pretenses. According to the countryโs energy minister, Alparslan Bayraktar, the state-owned gas monopoly BOTAล would now be able export around [โฆ]
The freshwater fish filled both the bay and nearby rivers after they were displaced from their normal habitats by floodwater last year which was followed by months of severe drought.
Images of a 50-day-old infant rescued on the small Greek island of Tilos have made the rounds of social media, which have hailed the islanders’ ‘humanity.’
Greek authorities have started collecting hundreds of thousands of dead fish that poured into a tourist port in the central coastal city of Volos this week after being displaced from their usual freshwater habitats during flooding last year. ‘It spans …
The leadership of Greeceโs main opposition leftist Syriza party chief, Stefanos Kasselakis, is again questioned as a new clash amongst leftist politicians has taken the situation to the edge.
Nominee Apostolos Tzitzikostas wants to oversee “cohesion” policy.
Water scarcity, overcrowded streets and rising housing costs are infuriating locals.
Talks around the ‘incentives-cluster’ within the EU’s pharma legislation remain wide open, with Athens supporting the so-called ‘delinked option’, says Aris Angelis, Secretary General for Strategic Planning of the Greek health ministry.
Cover-ups, botched investigations and a general feeling of impunity set alarm bells ringing.
A 39-year-old migrant was found dead on Friday (23 August) after the Greek coastguard opened fire on a vessel carrying migrants off the island of Symi in the eastern Aegean Sea, authorities said.
Greece has recently made a strong push for transport in the new European legislature. The Greek government now aims to secure the transport portfolio in the upcoming EU Commission, according to sources in Athens and Brussels.
PM’s choice of Apostolos Tzitzikostas could raise the temperature of simmering resentments between Greece and North Macedonia.
Countries in south most at risk, with rise likely to outstrip fall in cold-related deaths if global heating hits 3C or 4CHeat deaths in Europe could triple by the end of the century, with the numbers rising disproportionately in southern European count…
Almost all the nominees have been put forward for the next top team of EU commissioners.
By only focusing on firefighting without a prevention-focused holistic approach, it will be hard for the EU countries to face future wildfires, an expert from Greece, where thousands of hectares of forest were again burned in a couple of days, told Eur…
In Amorgos, Greece, islanders fear that their island is going to follow the same path as Santorini or Mykonos, overwhelmed by visitors.
From a firefighter to a fruit farmer, from Greece to Thailand, the Guardian speaks to people in places hit hardest by the climate crisisExtreme heat records have been broken around the world this year, and scientists say 2024 is likely to be the hottes…
People say they are determined and that prevention will be key to mitigating the effects of the climate crisisโI used to talk to them every day.โ Dimitris Petrou takes in the creatures that were once his fluffy chicks but now look like coals. The buckl…
The Pentagon is already working through fixes to allow Ukraine to launch the weapons from its fighter planes.
After a series of mass mortality events, it is more common to find these huge Mediterranean clams dead. Which is why the speciesโ โbiggest fangirl of allโ, Susan Smillie, is thrilled to see a thriving population in Greece I swim and I stare as my shado…
A firefighter says this week’s mega-blaze which reached the outskirts of Athens was like a war.
A firefighter says this week’s mega-blaze which reached the outskirts of Athens was like a war.
Greece has been assessing the damage caused by wildfires that raged through the outskirts of Athens, forcing mass evacuations and killing at least one person. The fires broke out on Sunday near Varnavas, 22 miles (35km) north-east of Athens, and advanc…
Drone footage recorded near the towns of Varnavas and Rapentosa, just over 35km and 26km north-east of Athens respectively, showed large areas of earth scorched by wildfire and widespread damage to properties in both towns. The wildfires that broke out…
Firefighters in Greece battled scattered fires on Tuesday (August 13) in hopes of containing the remains of a major wildfire that burned into the northern suburbs of Athens, triggering multiple evacuations and leaving at least one person dead.
The EU reacted “extremely” quickly to Greece’s request for EU aid to fight wildfires that reached the outskirts of Athens, an EU Commission spokesman said on Tuesday, describing a response that began 12 hours after the government had asked for help.
Greece’s worst wildfire of the year eased on the outskirts of the capital Athens on Tuesday (13 August) thanks to weaker winds, pausing progress of a destructive blaze that killed one person and torched cars, buildings, fields and forests.
Opposition and media turn on government as firefighters work to contain โscattered hotspotsโ Greek authorities are continuing to battle scattered fires on the outskirts of Athens as officials take stock of the damage wreaked by a disaster that forced …
Greece has seen summer wildfires before but this time the flames came perilously close to the capital.
Authorities are to remain on high alert until at least Thursday.
The support for Greece will consist of both aerial and ground firefighting resources, Albania will receive a multipurpose military plane from Romania, which can carry up to 6 tonnes of water.
Greek emergency services battled a massive wildfire threatening Athens for a third day Tuesday after finding the first victim and thousands of people were kept away from their homes by the flames. The body of a Moldovan woman was found in a burned out…
Vassilis Kikilias praises firefightersโ โsuperhumanโ effort in battling blaze near AthensGreeceโs opposition wasted little time Tuesday lambasting prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakisโ centre right government for what has been described as a lacklustre r…
European countries are sending reinforcements to Greece, as firefighters enter their third day of fighting a huge wildfire that has already killed one person and seen thousands of people evacuated from their homes.
A woman’s body was found early Tuesday inside a burned-out Athens factory in what is believed to be the first reported death from a disastrous wildfire that has scorched the city’s northeastern suburbs, forcing thousands of residents to flee their hom…
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Ursula von der Leyen faces pressure from the south over climate adaptation plans.
The BBC’s Jessica Parker is at the scene in Greece where large wildfires continue to blaze in Athens.
Thousands of residents have been evacuated as large wildfires reached the suburbs of Athens, with some flames leaping as high as 25 metres (80 feet). The Greek government formally called on the EU for assistance on Monday, with France pledging to send…
Thousands of residents have been evacuated from their homes as a large wildfire has spread through the suburbs of Athens.
Cases are higher this year in Spain and Greece, while Europe’s numbers are within an expected range.
A major forest fire that began Sunday afternoon was raging out of control on the northern fringes of the Greek capital Monday, triggering numerous evacuation orders for Athen’s suburbs and outlying areas. “It is the worst fire we have seen so far in G…
Residents near the Greek capital were told by authorities to flee their homes, while the city of Marathon is facing a ‘catastrophe.’ The country is experiencing its hottest summer since records began.
Firefighters have been tackling a fast-moving wildfire outside Athens that caused residents to flee their homes as the blaze continued to spread through the night. The fire, fuelled by rising temperatures and windy weather, burned down trees, houses an…
An army of volunteers have also rushed to help extinguish raging blazes north east of AthensAFP reports from Penteli:Thick smoke from burning trees filled a small square in Penteli where local resident Mariana Papathanasi said they could only pray that…
Meanwhile, a tropical disturbance in the Atlantic is likely to develop into a named storm within daysStorm Debby, which initially struck Florida as a hurricane, caused widespread destruction as it moved up the east coast, leaving many without power and…
Greece ordered the evacuation of hospitals and homes near Athens Monday as wildfires spread despite “superhuman” efforts to combat the flames, the fire brigade said.
Residents fled their homes on Sunday (11 August) as a fast-moving wildfire outside Athens fuelled by hot, windy weather burned trees, houses and cars and sent smoke clouds over the Greek capital.
Greece was battling a wildfire northeast of Athens on Sunday, with smoke covering parts of the capital in a haze, amid warnings for extreme weather conditions for the rest of the week.ย
Whole neighbourhoods are being evacuated from around capital as firefighters mount huge effort to put out blazesGreek authorities have warned people to stay indoors with their โwindows closedโ as hundreds of firefighters battled to contain blazes on th…
By Sunday afternoon, firefighters had quickly dealt with 33 out of the 40 blazes that had broken out in the past 24 hours, a fire brigade spokesman said.
Outbreaks of Oropouche virus, which may be linked to fetal deformities, are reported in several countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean.
If Brussels was in charge of the Olympic Games, this is how it’d look.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called journalists’ complaints about press freedom in Italy “fake news.”
EU needs to up its game on military mobility, but it’s no easy task, General Bertrand Toujouse tells POLITICO.
The U.N. is seeking a trilateral meeting on Aug. 13 to explore ways to resume Cyprus reunification negotiations.
Producers insist they have enough milk despite culling of thousands of animals due to livestock virusGreek farmers have denied that production of feta cheese is likely to be hit hard by the outbreak of a deadly virus among goats and sheep that has led …
What you need to know about the “goat plague” that has re-emerged in Europe and now affects the production of Greeceโs “white gold”.
