2025: Europe’s largest solar farm will operate in Portugal
It will supply electricity to a population twice the city of Porto
Portugal / Development / Energy efficiency
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Greece / Thessaloniki / Politics and Reforms / Welfare and Health
Homeless people can get two years of rent covered by the city of Thessaloniki
The new social scheme is aimed at helping people to transition into independent living
Greece / Athens / Digital transformation / Politics and Reforms
Digitalisation milestone: Athens municipality goes 100% online
The project to digitalise all municipal services took local authorities less than three years to complete
Greece / Athens / Welfare and Health
Athens: free holiday haircuts for the homeless
Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis believes that this is a way to give dignity back to the vulnerable, a core of local social services
Greece / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces
Piraeus to turn Christmas shopping into a street festival with ‘Red Night’
On 22 December, the streets of the port city will fill up with mascots, elf trains and Brass melodies
Bulgaria / Croatia / Germany / Greece / Romania / Politics and Reforms / Read Twice
European Commission expands anti-disinformation hubs to cover the EU
The EDMO hubs work to connect fact-checkers, academia and the media, as well as boost local media literacy
Greece / Athens / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces
Athens is shaking off its decaying facades
The generous municipal programme can cover 100% of a façade renovation project
Greece / Athens / Culture and Tourism / Digital transformation
Athens partners up with Google to offer an AR experience of the city
The project aims to showcase the Greek capital as a living, breathing and evolving contemporary museum
Greece / Culture and Tourism / Development
Piraeus to restore coast and become the core of the Athenian Riviera
The project was funded through the European Recovery and Resilience fund and calls for one big public space
Greece / Thessaloniki / Culture and Tourism / Green City
Thessaloniki to auction off urban vineyard wines for charity
Each bottle will have a unique label with a reproduction of a painting from the Municipal Art Gallery’s collection
Greece / Energy efficiency
Turning point: Greece meets 100% of energy demand with renewables
Renewables have now overtaken natural gas as the biggest share of the country’s energy mix
Greece / Athens / Development / Mobility
Greek PM inaugurates key Athens-Piraeus metro line
The trip from the Athens city centre to the Port of Piraeus now takes only 26 minutes
Greece / Athens / Energy efficiency / Politics and Reforms
This winter, Athens will not turn off street lights to save energy
Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said that keeping the lights on is not a matter of luxury, but a matter of security
Germany / Greece / Slovenia / Innovation and Research / Mobility
Commercial flights in the EU are down by 15% in July 2022
Greece is the only country that registered an increase, compared to numbers from July 2022
Greece / Green City / Innovation and Research
Greek island Alonissos uses robots to clean the sea
The isle is a member of the Blue Municipalities Network, which aims to help clean up the Aegean Sea
Austria / Croatia / Greece / Malta / Green City / Welfare and Health
This is where you can find the cleanest bathing waters in the EU
According to a recent report by the European Environmental Agency, around 85% of bathing spots in the EU are of excellent status, but not all waters were made equal
Greece / Athens / Culture and Tourism / Development
For the first time in two decades, Athens invests massively in architectural heritage
Most of the buildings in the city were built before the 1970s and have been left to chip away and collect soot on their unique facades
Greece / Public Spaces / Welfare and Health
Greece axes mask mandate from today
This means that for the first time in two years, wearing a mask in a public setting is not obligatory in the Mediterranean country
Greece / Athens / Education and Sport / Welfare and Health
Athens holds Cultural Summer Camp to help single-parent families
The programme targets young children whose parents cannot afford to stay home while school is closed
Greece / Welfare and Health
Maroussi holds festival for the protection of stray animals
The Greek municipality is encouraging citizens to adopt four-legged friends
Greece / Athens / Public Spaces
Athens unveils open-air exhibition, portraying life in Ukraine
“The war that should have never happened” will run until 13 June
Greece / Athens / Interviews / Welfare and Health
Melina Daskalaki: Our mission is to promote the social reintegration of homeless individuals
An interview with the President of the City of Athens Reception & Solidarity Centre
Greece / Thessaloniki / Green City
Thessaloniki strengthens efforts to protect its marine environment
It will test out the use of a sea drone to collect and remove waste
Greece / Tilos / Green City
Tilos has the highest rate of recycling in the world, officials claim
The Greek island has a recycling rate of 80% thanks to its Just Go Zero programme
Greece / Athens / Education and Sport / Green City
Nurseries in Athens teach children how to plant fruits and vegetables
The municipality wants to have gardens in all 68 of its nursery schools by the end of the year
Greece / Culture and Tourism
Mykonos Airport gets a new name in honour of a Greek heroine
It pays tribute to Manto Mavrogenous, a brave woman who fought for the independence of Greece
Greece / Athens / Politics and Reforms
Athens and Boston to become sister cities
A direct flight will connect the two metropolises for the first time in 25 years
Greece / Trikala / Cities in Pictures
Gallery: Trikala’s new garbage trucks portray cleaners as heroes
The Greek municipality wants to thank the "heroes of everyday life"
Finland / Germany / Greece / Luxembourg / Romania / Sweden / Culture and Tourism
UNESCO names six European sites as Global Geoparks
The sites stretch from Finland’s Salpausselkä to Luxembourg’s Mëllerdall and Greece’s islands of Kefalonia and Ithaca
Estonia / Greece / Hungary / Luxembourg / Economy and Finance
Housing prices in the EU have gone up by 42% in the last decade
Prices have more than doubled in Estonia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Latvia, Czechia, Austria and Lithuania
Greece / Athens / Welfare and Health
Athens reopens its ‘Friendship Clubs’ after a two-year break
People over the age of 60 will once again be able to meet up with friends, exercise, learn new skills, and participate in cultural events