Greece Opens ‘Tourism for All’ Applications With Vouchers Up to €600 – Greek City Times

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Greece Opens ‘Tourism for All’ Applications With Vouchers Up to €600 – Greek City Times

Applications are now open for Greece’s Tourism for All 2026-2027 programme, a government-funded domestic travel scheme offering eligible residents digital accommodation vouchers worth between €200 and €600. The programme is designed to make holidays within Greece more affordable for Greek households while encouraging travel outside the peak summer season. Applications close at 11.59pm on Friday, …

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PM to deliver dual Thessaloniki International Fair message

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to deliver a dual message at this year’s Thessaloniki International Fair, using the preelection event to outline both planned economic measures and the governing New Democracy party’s program for the next national vote. Source link

Helleniq profits boosted, as margins, exports rise

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Refiner Helleniq Energy saw its earnings skyrocket in the first half of the year. The group announced comparable EBITDA of €736 million, compared to €401 million in the first half of 2025, a rise of 83%. Net profits rose from €128 million to €393 million, or 207%. Source link

Afloat is Going Greek for its Eleventh Season – Greek City Times

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Afloat is Going Greek for its Eleventh Season – Greek City Times

Afloat, the seasonal floating bar and restaurant that has become one of Melbourne’s most talked-about summer fixtures, will reopen on the Yarra River on Thursday, August 27 with a full transformation into a Greek island escape. The venue, moored on the river’s north bank near Flinders Street Station in Melbourne’s city centre, closes every winter …

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Drugs arrests in Mani, Thessaloniki

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Police in the southern Mani region have arrested a man who had allegedly ordered nearly half a kilogram of marijuana by parcel delivery, while separately a woman was caught in Thessaloniki with close to one kilo of heroin, authorities said Thursday. Source link

Immigration, the EU and the home front

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Walking the fine line of appealing to both the center and the right, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis co-signed, with 21 other EU leaders, a letter to the presidents of the European Council, the European Commission, and the Irish Presidency of the Council, calling for an immediate and coordinated European response to the escalating situation in …

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Man arrested at Athens airport with knives and pruning shears in hand luggage

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Man arrested at Athens airport with knives and pruning shears in hand luggage

A 37-year-old foreign national was arrested at Athens International Airport late Wednesday after trying to board an international flight with knives and other bladed tools hidden in his hand luggage, police said Thursday. Officers discovered four knives and two pairs of secateurs — scissor-like tools used for pruning plants — during a routine pre-boarding security …

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Vital progress

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Greek society is steadily catching up with a major lag that has haunted it for decades. Source link