Eleni Stamatoukou

After MEPs backed the reform of European migration and asylum policy, rights groups and left-wing MEPs expressed dismay, saying the changes will likely undermine refugees' rights.

MEPs voted to add the right to abortion to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and urged Member States to rescind laws banning or restricting abortion.

Six out of 21 defendants were found guilty of homicide by negligence and other offences over a wildfire in Mati in Greece’s Attica region in 2018 that left 104 people dead, but political officials were cleared of responsibility.

Self-proclaimed ‘beauty clinics' in Greece are scamming unwitting consumers out of huge sums of money, often evading sanction despite leaving some of their clients scarred for life.

A preoccupation with attracting foreign direct investment, mainly in manufacturing, means governments in the Western Balkans are neglecting other areas crucial to closing the income gap with the European Union.

The Chora Museum, a former Greek Orthodox religious building dating back to the 4th century, was reopened to worshippers in Istanbul as a mosque, sparking an angry reaction from Athens.

The foreign owners of the only factory in Greece still making glass have closed the furnace, blaming rising costs and declining demand.

Unknown people broke into the offices of the SYRIZA party and left a message for party leader Stefanos Kasselakis reading: 'One bullet Kasselakis'.

The Court of Justice of the European Union ordered the European Parliament to hand over expenses paid by the Parliament to the convicted leading member of Golden Dawn and MEP Ioannis Lagos.

Prime Minister Edi Rama says he'll visit Greece to address the diaspora community there, despite a continuing row over Albania's prosecution of an ethnic Greek mayor-elect – but Greek officials have reacted coldly and reiterated criticism of the Albanian judiciary.