Greece is accelerating its strategy of early public debt repayments, with two additional repayments worth a combined 4.7 billion euros scheduled before the end of 2026, following an initial transaction completed on June 15. The government’s objective is to further improve the country’s debt profile, reduce future financing needs, and speed up the decline of the debt-to-GDP ratio....

Wildfires and the increasingly dangerous weather conditions that fuel them were the focus of a discussion on the Greek television program Koinonia Ora MEGA, where fire meteorologist Theodore Giannaros of the National Observatory of Athens outlined the main factors behind Greece’s recurring summer fire disasters. According to Giannaros, the number of days with extreme fire-weather conditions...

Maria Menounos has a deep faith in Orthodoxy and whenever she comes to Greece she never misses a pilgrimage to Saint Nektarios in Aegina. “This year, however, I felt a special calling to visit Tinos,” Maria Menounos wrote in a post. “I truly believe in his miracles and have witnessed them many times.” “In recent years, I have been making pilgrimages to Saint Nektarios in Aegina, where I wa...