Despina Konti

Greece’s defense industry is picking up speed, as an ecosystem has recently been created in which state organizations and large industrial groups participate.

The transformation process of Hellenic Railways (OSE) is proceeding with a German stamp.

Vehicle buyers, both of cars and motorbikes, may not be able to get license plates, because the regional Transport offices issuing the plates are running out of them.

A study of 325 cities in 77 countries places Athens among the top four European “rising stars” in innovation, behind Istanbul, Kyiv and Zagreb and ahead of cities such as Sofia, Prague, Vilnius, Lisbon and Warsaw.

Greek investment funds increasingly look to local start-ups specializing in defense or dual-use (civilian-military) technologies.

Athens may be among the most popular global destinations for digital nomads but some of them would rather be at a quieter location.

A new Eurobank study delivers a sharp critique of Greece’s higher education system, arguing that a rapid expansion in university participation has not been matched by gains in skills or educational quality.

Greece has completed what developers describe as the first integrated biotechnology park in Southeast Europe, a project aimed at strengthening the country’s position as a hub for life sciences research and innovation.

A bus crash in Thessaloniki on September 9 has reignited concerns over driver training and bus stop safety. An OASTH bus on route 28 struck a parked KTEL bus, then hit pedestrians waiting at a stop, injuring four.

“That’s the charm: discovering and living in places that are not popular destinations. I didn’t even know where Leros was. It’s not like Kos and Rhodes that every foreigner knows,” Austrian Sigi Ertl tells Kathimerini. He has chosen to work remotely, not from his office in London, but from the Dodecanese island of Leros, with a view of the sea.