28 January – A Turkish national is arrested after the Hellenic Coast Guard recovers 61 firearms and nearly 3,000 rounds of ammunition from a boat off the coast of Alexandroupoli.[2]
3 February – A closure of schools and restrictions of large public gatherings is implemented in Santorini due to an earthquake swarm. School closures are also declared in the nearby islands of Amorgos, Anafi and Ios.[4]
Christos Triantopoulos resigns as deputy minister for civil protection following allegations that he had tampered with evidence related to the Tempi train crash in 2023.[6]
A state of emergency is declared in Santorini due to the ongoing earthquake swarm.[7]
10 March – Niki MP Nikolaos Papadopoulos and a companion are arrested for vandalizing an exhibition at the National Gallery in Athens that they claim as offensive to Eastern Orthodoxy.[9]
14 March – Prime Minister Mitsotakis implements a cabinet reshuffle, resulting in the appointment of Makis Voridis as migration minister and the transfer of digital governance minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis to the finance ministry.[11]
15 March – Moody's raises the country's credit status to Baa3, making it the last major ratings agency to lift junk status on Greek government bonds that began during the Greek government-debt crisis in 2010.[12]
18 March – Roula Pispirigou receives two additional life sentences for murdering her daughters as part of the Patras sisters death case.[13]
31 March – A closure of schools and non-essential traffic is declared in Paros and Mykonos due to floods caused by heavy rain.[14]
April
3 April – A boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Lesbos, killing seven passengers.[15]
9 April – A general strike causes nationwide disruptions to transportation.[16]
11 April – A bomb is detonated outside the offices of Hellenic Train in Athens. No casualties are reported, while the group Revolutionary Class Struggle claims responsibility.[17]
12 April – Riots break out in the Exarchia neighbourhood of Athens, resulting in 72 arrests and injuries to one police officer.[18]
14 April – A boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Farmakonisi, killing two passengers.[19]
23 April – At least 34 ancient artefacts are recovered in a sting operation in Crete that leads to the arrest of six suspected smugglers.[20]
May
3 May – One person is killed in the self-detonation of a bomb being planted by the victim in Thessaloniki.[21]
14 May – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits off the coast of Kasos, prompting a tsunami warning that passes without incident.[22]
17 May – Greece finishes in sixth place at Eurovision 2025 in Switzerland.[23]
3 June – Ten officials from the Hellenic Fire Service and other civil protection agencies are convicted of negligence over the 2018 Attica wildfires.[30] Four of them are sentenced to five years' imprisonment the next day.[31]
5 June – A strike is held in Paros by restaurant owners in protest over zoning restrictions against them using the island's harbour beachfront.[32]
7 June –
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits Mount Athos, causing extensive damage to several religious structures.[33]
The bodies of 14 people believed to have been killed during the Greek Civil War are discovered buried underneath a park near Thessaloniki.[34]
An Azerbaijani national is arrested on suspicion of spying on the Crete Naval Base.[41]
25 June – Wildfires break out in Attica, prompting the evacuation of more than 1,000 people.[42]
27 June – Migration and Asylum Minister Makis Voridis resigns along with four deputy ministers and officials amid allegations of mismanagement of EU subsidies for agriculture between 2019 and 2022 by the managing agency OPEKEPE.[43] He is succeeded the next day by Thanos Plevris.[44]
7 July – The Ministry of Labour and Social Security imposes a mandatory work stoppage from midday to 17:00 affecting outdoor manual labor and food delivery services in parts of the country due to an ongoing heatwave.[46]
9 July – The government suspends asylum applications for migrants arriving on Crete following an increase in arrivals from Libya.[47]
21 July – Prime Minister Mitsotakis announces the creation of two protected marine areas in the Ionian Sea and the southern Cyclades.[49]
22 July –
Fugitive Moldovan oligarch and former MP Vladimir Plahotniuc, who is wanted in his home country for money laundering and involvement in the theft of $1 billion from the state budget and banking system, is arrested in Greece.[50]
A firefighting helicopter crashes into the sea near Athens during efforts to extinguish a wildfire. All three people on board are rescued.[51]
26 July – A bomb attack is carried out on the residence of Konstantinos Varsamis, the president of the Greek association of prison guards, in Sykies, injuring two people.[52]
August
8 August – One person is killed in a wildfire in Keratea.[53]
10 August – Police announce the seizure of 271.15 kilograms of cocaine valued at over 5.5 million euros ($6.5 million) and believed to have originated from Ecuador following two related operations in Thessaloniki and Aspropyrgos, resulting in three arrests.[54]
11 August – The government orders migrants with rejected asylum claims to wear ankle monitors as part of efforts to increase the rate of deportations.[55]
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