Greece

• Greece cuts student population at universities by half after long study breaks are abolished - More than 300,000 inactive university students have been removed from the rolls in Greece, cutting the country’s official student population by nearly half, authorities said Friday. On Friday, the Education Ministry said that 308,605 stude
• Greek farmers block border crossing routes in escalating dispute over delayed EU subsidies - Farmers in northern Greece disrupted traffic at border crossings on Wednesday in an escalating protest over delayed European Union-backed subsidy payments linked to an investigation into a corruption scandal. At the weekend, hundreds of fa