Traffic restrictions will affect central Thessaloniki from Thursday through Sunday for the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair, with parking bans and extensive road closures planned during Saturday’s events

Tsipras arrived to applause, handshakes and cheers at a packed hall at the Porto Palace hotel.

Greece's agricultural sector is planning a mass protest with farm machinery in central Thessaloniki on opening day of the trade fair

The Greek Left Alliance leader and former PM will present a four-year blueprint for 2027-2030, promising costed proposals and a new "Patriotic Levy" as he attempts to draw battle lines with the Mitsotakis government

One hundred years after a zoology professor persuaded a shaky government that Thessaloniki needed a trade fair, TIF remains the first major marker on the greek political calendar each fall and the country's most watched stage for a couple of weeks

The measures, about to be announced, are designed to lure freelancers, farmers, pensioners and families back into New Democracy's electoral fold. Their timing also aims to give Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis room to call elections as early as January

The bride is not a puppy. But could the political system be an old dog that cannot learn new tricks? Probably

The government is preparing measures ranging from higher child and birth benefits to tax breaks, housing support and expanded parental leave, as it seeks to encourage young couples to have children

Greek PM says his center-right government will surpass its 950-euro minimum wage target before the next general elections

SYRIZA issues an ultimatum to defecting MPs to return their seats as it pushes a restart and prepares its full program ahead of TIF

Tsipras readies EL.A.S. for TIF announcement on Sept 2 with new candidate lists and a carefully formulated economic program

The government spokesperson said the measures to be unveiled at the Thessaloniki fair, worth more than 1 billion euros, would be permanent, with pensioners, public and private sector workers and the self-employed among the intended beneficiaries

The prime minister pushed his Thessaloniki trade fair speech forward and is readying a package worth more than 1 billion euros, as corruption trials, wildfire recovery and tension with Turkey crowd his fall calendard

Mitsotakis returns from summer needing a convincing "why" for a third term. With a fatigued government and fragmented opposition, Greece risks an election of political noise rather than real governing visions

After two years defending presumptive taxation as its main tool against tax evasion, Athens is preparing to soften the system for professionals and small firms as the Thessaloniki International Fair approaches, with elections on the horizon

Greece’s finance ministry is preparing several versions of its autumn economic package rather than one, uncertain how much fiscal room it will have and working with far less than in recent years. Those measures are traditionally set out at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), where the prime minister lays out the government’s economic priorities for […]

The package will favor small businesses and the self-employed over salaried workers and pensioners, while the government has ruled out reviving the 13th pension and salary scrapped during the debt crisis.

With €1.2 billion in fiscal space unlocked by a better-than-expected 2025 surplus, Greece is weighing business tax cuts and further household relief ahead of a major government announcement in Thessaloniki this September.

The administration wants to rebuild a power base that has been put to the test over the last two years. And the Opposition wants to create a power base that will work in their favor

Tax relief measures announced at the Thessaloniki International Fair are seen as insufficient, as inflation keeps eroding household income