2025

Events

January 16: PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominates Hellenic Parliament Speaker, Konstantinos Tasoulas, as Greece’s next president.
January 25: MP Konstantinos Tasoulas receives 160 votes in the first round of voting, in the Hellenic Parliament, for President of Greece.
January 26: Thousands of Greeks protest throughout the country and abroad demanding justice for the train crash of February 28, 2023 at Tempe.
January 31: Emmanouil Karalis breaks the Greek indoor record in the pole vault with a 5.90 performance.

February 4: A 5.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Santorini. This earthquake is the strongest of the 550 tremors that have hit the area between Santorini, Amorgos and Ios over the past three days.
February 8: Emmanouil Karalis breaks the Greek indoor record in the pole vault with a 5.92 jump in Lodz, Poland.
February 12: Former Hellenic Parliament Speaker, Konstantinos Tasoulas, is elected President of Greece.
February 14: Emmanouil Karalis breaks yet again the Greek indoor record in the pole vault with a 5.94 jump in Berlin, Germany.
February 16: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 79-75 to lift the Greek Basketball Cup.
February 22: Emmanouil Karalis breaks, for the third time in the month, the Greek indoor record in the pole vault with a 6.01m jump.
February 28: Hundreds of thousands of Greeks take to the streets to protest on the second anniversary of the Tempe rail disaster.
February 28: Emmanouil Karalis breaks the Greek record in the pole vault with a 6.02m performance at Clermont Ferrand.

March 9: Emmanouil Karalis wins gold at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
March 14: PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis shuffles his cabinet.
March 14: Moody’s upgrades the credit rating of Greece to Baa3 from Ba1.
March 22: Emmanouil Karalis wins silver at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Nanjing, China, breaking the Greek record for the pole vault with a 6.05m jump.
March 23: Greece thrash Scotland 3-0 in Hampden Park and qualify for League A in the Nations League.

April 1: Torrential rainfall causes flooding on the islands of Mykonos and Paros.
April 4: Values on the Athens Stock Market drop 4.83% to 1,597.55 after the announcement by China that they will retaliate on tariffs imposed on them by the US government.
April 11: A bomb explodes outside the offices of railway company Hellenic Train.

June 8: Olympiakos are crowned champions of Greece after defeating Panathinaikos 85-71 in the fourth match of their series.

July 2: Forest fires break out in Lasithi prefecture, Crete, forcing the evacuation of several villages.

August 2: Emmanouil Karalis breaks the Greek record in the pole vault with a 6.08m jump at Volos.