Greece recently adopted a six-day working week to maintain its workforce as its population ages, but also to clamp down on tax evasion stemming from undeclared work. Under the new law – which only applies to industries that operate 24 hours a day, seven days a...
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Greek businesses will be able to impose a six-day workweek on their employees starting this month, a measure that officials say is aimed at addressing Greece’s productivity issues – even as criticism by workers and labor unions has been fierce, Euronews reported Monday. Starting in July,...
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Thousands of Greek workers and students took to the streets of central Athens on Wednesday to commemorate the anniversary of the country’s deadliest train accident, and to demand both justice for the victims and bigger pay rises, Reuters reported. The strike, organized by Greece’s largest public...
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in Monday, a day after his center-right New Democracy party won a resounding victory in Greece’s repeat parliamentary elections, Reuters reported. Results showed that New Democracy secured a majority by receiving 158 of 300 parliamentary seats, while the leftist...
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Greece’s ruling conservatives and its main leftist opposition party rejected mandates to form a coalition government following the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections – which could lead the European Union country to hold another vote next month, Reuters reported Tuesday. The results of the elections showed...
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Eight years ago, at the peak of the migration crisis in Europe, around one million Syrian refugees fleeing their country’s bloody war traveled to Greece for safety and economic opportunities. Four years ago, conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defeated leftist Alexis Tsipras on a pledge...
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A young man traveling on the train from Athens to the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Feb. 28 was having trouble speaking to his mother on the phone. “Mum, there are too many people on the train,” he said, according to Agence France-Presse. “I’ve...
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Rail workers launched strikes across Greece this week, the latest display of anger and condemnation against Greek authorities following a train crash on Tuesday that killed at least 57 people, the BBC reported. The walkouts come after protests occurred in a number of cities, including the...
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Greece’s parliament approved a new law this week that will allow the exhibition of rare antiquities outside the country, a move that has raised concerns among archaeologists that it could lead to the long-term “export” of rare artifacts, Agence France-Presse reported. The legislation affects five of...
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A Greek court dismissed charges against 24 aid workers who had been helping migrants arriving in Europe, putting an end to a case that critics said symbolized the criminalization of rescue work, the Washington Post reported over the weekend. The defendants, who had been working for...
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Greek authorities are investigating the wiretapping of a political leader’s phone by the country’s intelligence service, a burgeoning scandal that opposition parties have called the prime minister’s “Watergate,” Reuters reported. Last week, Nikos Androulakis, the leader of Greece's socialist PASOK party and a member of the...
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