Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

Türkiye has strongly condemned an attack on the Turkish minority's cemetery in Greece's western Thrace region over the weekend by unidentified persons.

Five regions in Greece will be at very high risk of fires on Saturday, based on the Fire Risk Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection.

"Kleon," the scorching heatwave currently sweeping across the country, is set to continue on Saturday, with meteorologists predicting highs of 41 degrees Celsius in many areas of the country.

The pick up in the wind, which will reach force 7 in the Aegean from Sunday to Wednesday, will cause temperatures to drop slightly.

Alexandroupoli plays a key geopolitical, energy, and development role and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in his address at the inauguration of the project to build the city's gas-fired power production unit on Saturday, as he wrapped up a two-day tour of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.

The annual Αthena International Olive Oil Competition (Athena IOOC) will be held in Kavala, northeastern Greece from May 4 to 6, it was announced this week.

It will be jointly held with the Regional Authority of Eastern Macedonia & Thrace.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented the government's Eastern Macedonia & Thrace 2030 Development Program in the northern Greek city of Komotini on Friday, the premier's second stop on his day tour of the region after Xanthi.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has vowed he will not "step back from the protection of the [country's] borders and the safety of people living in border areas," during a speech at an event in the northeastern city of Komotini.

The premier was presenting the government's development plan for Eastern Macedonia and Thrace during a visit to the region.

Mainland Greece is aging alarmingly - faster than even the most dire predictions of demographers. One in three residents of the Prefectures of Arta and Evrytania is currently over 65 years old, a percentage that was expected in 2050, while in eleven prefectures of the country with a total population of 828,000 people one in four is elderly.

Greek special forces units have been deployed at the Evros borders

The operation took place in Xanthi