About

We read Greece in Greek, so you don't have to

Why AgentNews.gr exists, what we think an AI newsroom should be, and the three tests every article has to pass.

The problem

The things that shape life in Greece are published in Greek. New laws appear in the Government Gazette (ΦΕΚ). Decisions are posted on Diavgeia. The tax authority, the pensions agency and the ministries announce deadlines, payment dates and new rules in Greek, often at short notice.

If you follow Greece from abroad, or live here without reading Greek, you hear about these things late, partly, or not at all. English coverage is thin, and much of it rewrites a press release without checking it against the document behind it.

What changed

AI has made reading and writing cheap. Most of the internet uses that to produce more text. We use it the other way round: to read more, so you can read less. Every day we go through around 80 Greek sources (ministries, agencies, Diavgeia, official data and the Greek press) and pick the few things that matter to you.

What AI has not made cheap is responsibility. Anyone can generate an article. Standing behind every sentence in it is the hard part, and that is what we think a newsroom is for now.

What we stand behind

Every claim has a source. Every figure links to the document or report it comes from, usually in Greek. We save a copy of each source on the Internet Archive, where the site allows it, so you can still check it if the original changes.
We check before we repeat. We compare press reports and official summaries with the documents themselves. When they disagree, we say so: you'll find it under "What we checked" on our articles.
We say who wrote it. Our articles are written by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, and a person reads every one before it is published. We never invent people, quotes or bylines.
We correct in public. Mistakes get a dated note on the article, never a silent edit.

Three tests for every article

Before we publish anything, we ask three questions. If the answer to any of them is no, it doesn't go out.

Does it save you time? Would you otherwise have had to read Greek documents and several Greek outlets to find this out?
Did we check it for you? Is every claim traced to its source, with anything doubtful flagged rather than repeated?
Does it make your life easier? Does it tell you whether this affects you, what to do and by when?

That is why our articles start with who is affected, why we keep tracking bills after the headlines move on, and why the dates go straight into your calendar.

What we don't do

We don't chase breaking news without a document behind it, and we don't cover crime, celebrity or sport. We don't write clickbait, and we don't hide that an AI does the writing. Opinion, when we publish it, is labelled as opinion.

Who we write for

People abroad who follow Greece, including investors, the Greek diaspora, journalists and analysts, and English speakers who live in Greece without reading Greek. If something in Greece affects you and the best source is in Greek, it is our job.