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ArticleMore retir­ees are stay­ing on the job

Greece's over­haul of rules gov­ern­ing employ­ment after retire­ment is reshap­ing the labor mar­ket, cre­at­ing incent­ives for retir­ees to remain eco­nom­ic­ally act­ive while gen­er­at­ing addi­tional rev­enue for the social insur­ance...

ArticleFrom ancient Olympia, les­sons in lead­er­ship bey­ond bor­ders

ArticleThe `law of the shep­herd's crook'

Just a few days ago, a two-man crew from the elec­tri­city net­work oper­ator DEDDIE came under attack in the vil­lage of Zoni­ana in Rethymno, Crete, by a group of men in pickup trucks. The crew was there to carry out upgrades on the elec­tri­city...

ArticleTrial maps under­world power struggle

Nine people have been ordered to stand trial before a three-judge felony appeals court in Athens over the killing of Van­gelis Zam­pounis, a fig­ure known in under­world circles as “Zam­bon,” whose fatal shoot­ing author­it­ies say reflects a broader...

ArticleAdvances recor­ded, chal­lenges remain

The European Com­mis­sion's annual rule of law report on Greece recor­ded pro­gress in key areas but said last year's four recom­mend­a­tions to Athens have not yet been fully imple­men­ted. The report, the sev­enth in the series, cites devel­op­ments...

ArticleUnhealthy eat­ing costs Greece €18 bil­lion a year

A fam­ily of four in Greece must spend about €450 a month to eat healthy, accord­ing to the UN Food and Agri­cul­ture Organ­iz­a­tion. The cost of a healthy diet in Greece reached €3.77 per per­son per day in 2024, up 38% since 2019. Unhealthy...

ArticleOPEKEPE invest­ig­a­tion deep­ens polit­ical divide

The polit­ical dis­pute over the OPEKEPE EU farm sub­sidy scan­dal intens­i­fied after the European Pub­lic Pro­sec­utor's Office referred four New Demo­cracy law­makers for mis­de­meanor charges and closed files involving seven oth­ers. The...

ArticleSYRIZA law­makers face lead­er­ship vote

Rena Dourou is the sole can­did­ate for the pres­id­ency of SYRIZA-Pro­gress­ive Alli­ance's par­lia­ment­ary group ahead of a vote sched­uled for Sat­urday in Par­lia­ment. The elec­tion timetable was announced by par­lia­ment­ary group sec­ret­ary...