Greece News 2026

NEWS ARCHIVE - August 2026

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Timeless Villages, Scenic Hikes, Local Flavors - Moon's Greek Islands & Athens Travel Guide – Amazon 560 Pages

Wednesday, Aug 13, 2026

Intense fire fight in Kassandra, Halkidiki, with hundreds saved via sea route

Story at Skai [Greek]

Council of state cancels licenses on three private universities

Story at EFSYN [Greek]

Central Jewish Council of Greece calls on gov't to make the "necessary measures" concerning anti-Semitic violence

Story at Liberal [Greek] – more on Anti-Semitism in Greece

Significant number of West Nile Virus cases in the past week

Story at Athens News Agency [Greek]

"The struggle for restoration after the great fire in Rethymno"

Story at Parapolitika [Greek]

Apostolos Siskos wins Greece's first swimming medal at the 38th European Aquatics Championships

Story at Greek Reporter [English]

Going to Greece? Use this checklist

Story at MSN Elle Magazine [English]

Temps to 38º Celsius / 100º Fahrenheit

Weather at Imerisia [Greek]

Attika on alert for extreme fire risk

Story at Athina984 [Greek]

Increasing net income with targeted interventions

Story at Protothema [Greek]

The Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the AADE "tax evader's feast"

Story at Skai [Greek]

Marco Rubio coming to Greece?

Story at Parapolitika [Greek]

The gigantic jump in cost of student housing

Story at Powergame [Greek]

"Golden homecoming for Alexandri sisters"

Story at EuroNews MSN [English]

Apostolos Siskos' silver medal win in Paris

Story at Eleftherostypos [Greek]

Roman monumental complex in Athens on Vasilissis Olgas Street is being restored

Story at Athens News Agency [Greek]

What's "killing" our summer vacation?

Story at Naftemporiki [Greek]

Thursday fire risk to be significantly higher

Story at Iefimerida [Greek]

Saudi Arabia doesn't want Egypt added to the "Mecca Pact"

Story at Skai [Greek]

The "disappearing" Greeks of tomorrow

Story at Capital [Greek] – more on Demographics of Greece

In Europe, there is not a single country that has a fertility rate close to 2.1, the number that allows the reproduction of the existing population, which triggers ominous predictions for economic growth and the pension system. Especially for Greece, we could add Public Debt as a major problem. As the population decreases, our per capita debt also increases...."

Peroulades Village cliffs on Corfu

The three cruise vessels laid up in Greece

Story at Cruise Industry News [English]

Here comes a temp drop and strong winds

Weather at Iefimerida [Greek]

What to see at the solar eclipse

Story at Skai [Greek]

A thousand euro minimum wage coming?

Story at Powergame [Greek]

Greveniote Miltos Tentoglou wins gold medal at the European Championships

Story at Naftemporiki [Greek]

Afroditi Latinopoulou accuses Roma group of verbal attack on her and her mother

Story at Protothema [Greek]

NEWS ARCHIVE - August 2026

INDEX NEWS ARCHIVE

"Young set about recruiting the most unlikely of spies—academics, classicists, epigraphers, and other specialists and scholars—who would come to be known as “the Greek Desk.” These men and women, along with their Greek allies, went undercover and tried desperately to protect some of the world’s most significant treasures. The archaeologists hid priceless artifacts in ancient caves, bank vaults, and even underneath the city of Athens itself." AMAZON

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Fodor's Essential Greece: with the Best of the Islands (Full-color Travel Guide) – Amazon

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