The Greek Education Ministry tabled in parliament a new framework for Greece’s muftis that will increase the Islamic clerics’ independence, minority rights website Azınlıkça and daily Ekathimerini reported last Friday. …

Greece’s Foreign Ministry has issued a sharp response to claims from Turkish Foreign Ministry accusing Greece of closing four minority primary schools in the north-eastern province of Thrace. Ankara claims …

Greece is one of five latest additions in Russia’s ‘Unfriendly Countries List’, as announced by the Russian government on Friday, along with Denmark, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia. All five countries …

The validity of Greek passports is to be doubled to ten years, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos announced on Thursday (Greek time). Greece was one of a handful of countries …

Hundreds of firefighters struggled to contain a large wildfire that threatened hillside suburbs outside Athens on Tuesday (Greek time), after hundreds of residents were evacuated overnight. Raging wildfires continued to …

As the day dawned on Thursday (Greek time), the Fire Service said there were no active fronts in the main three wildfires that broke out on Mount Penteli, north of …

Greece’s parliament has banned “sex-normalising” surgeries on babies born intersex, with atypical chromosomes that affect their bodies in a way that does not fit with the normative definitions of male …

Hundreds of firefighters struggled to contain a large wildfire that threatened hillside suburbs outside Athens for a second day on Wednesday, after hundreds of residents were evacuated overnight. Raging wildfires …

A Health Ministry bill increasing women’s age limit for assisted reproduction to 54 years from the current 50 was approved by lawmakers on Tuesday evening (Greece time). The bill was …

A large wildfire broke out on the slopes of Mount Penteli, just north of Athens, on Tuesday afternoon, forcing the residents of a semi-mountainous settlement to evacuate to avoid the …