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Weather: Dust and high temperatures reaching 30°C by the end of the week – Rains today

Significant increase in temperatures during the week – The forecast till Thursday

Fuel price drop but the cost for unleaded continues to be unchanged

Unleaded prices remain high

Acropolis Museum offering free admission on International Museum Day

The Acropolis Museum will be marking International Museum Day on Saturday, May 18, with free admission and special events.

It will also stay open longer, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., while the restaurant will be serving until midnight.

KYKLOS IDEON – Circle of ideas for the national reconstruction, holds a three-day conference

Outlined is the conference’s program

Athens seeks to bar building height bonus

The Municipality of Athens is joining the effort to block the issuance of building permits based on the bonuses included in the new building regulation.

Things don’t look good in Skopje

The signs bode ill right from the get-go in North Macedonia, after the Balkan country's newly elected president kicked off her tenure with an unnecessary swipe at Greece, causing ripples on what were otherwise calm waters in bilateral relations between the two neighbors.

Stern message sent to Skopje

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has warned newly sworn-in North Macedonia President Gordana Siljanovska that further violations of the name agreement signed between the two countries would threaten Skopje's European Union membership ambitions.

Two men injured in sports-related assault in Thessaloniki

Police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, have arrested 12 suspects in connection with an attack against two men on Monday night that appears to have been motivated by local soccer rivalries.

The two men, brothers aged 37 and 42 years old, told the police they were assaulted while walking in the seaside suburb of Nea Michaniona at around 8.30 p.m. by a gang of at least 10 males.

Mitsotakis meeting with Larco unionists

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday received representatives of the Larco mining firm's employee union and exchanged views on the future of the company.

Calm waters despite disagreements

The much-anticipated meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Monday highlighted a consensus on the need to maintain calm waters in the Aegean, but also to keep open the channels of communication despite known disagreements in key policy areas.

Uninsured vehicles law under consultation

Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance Harry Theoharis stressed on Monday that under a new bill the government will address the issue of uninsured and immobilized vehicles.

In an interview on Skai TV, Theoharis stressed that "having citizens divided into two categories, with some paying road taxes regularly and others not, is unacceptable."

Mt Parnitha casino relocation to be discussed June 17

The relocation of the Mt Parnitha casino to Maroussi, a northeastern suburb of Athens, will be discussed anew on June 17, the Council of State has decided. The reason cited by the highest administrative court of Greece is the hospitalization of a CoS member Dimitris Vandoros, after a serious traffic accident.