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16 articles. Each one answers a question that costs you money if you answer it wrong.
Article of the day
The EHIC and the GHIC open Greek public hospitals for free, but not private clinics, the flight home or a quad accident. What to buy before a holiday on the islands.
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Article of the day, yesterday
A private-use van or pickup costs more to insure than a car, and a farm truck costs less. What the public figures of 2024 show, what changes in the covers and what happens to the load.
Article of the day, 12 November
A home policy does not apply when the home is let by the night, and since October 2025 the law asks for liability cover. What the home needs and what it costs.
Article of the day, 11 November
Personal accident insurance pays a cash sum for death or disability from an accident. What it covers, what it excludes, and the prices companies print on their own pages.
Article of the day, 10 November
The market average for property is about €1.17 a year per €1,000 of value, before tax. What a guest property policy covers, earthquake, liability to guests and the lost season.
Article of the day, 9 November
The certificate that takes your car's third-party cover across the border. It is issued free, eight countries ask for it, and it carries no optional cover.
Article of the day, 8 November
An EU licence is valid as normal. A third-country licence is valid only while you do not have your ordinary residence in Greece, and then needs conversion. The insurer asks about both, and a claim checks them.
The average is about €179 net a year per vehicle, or around €210 with the tax and the levy. See how the figure is worked out, why yours is different, and what the price index shows since 2015.
The price of each company in the comparison is our own estimate, and it can be wrong. Where it comes from, why the order is not an official ranking, and what the market average beside it is.
Compulsory insurance covers the damage you do to others, not you and not your car. What that means in practice.
No insurer is the cheapest for every driver. Each company sets its own prices and draws its own lines for age and experience. Why it happens, and what it means for how you search.
What really reduces a car insurance premium in Greece, what does nothing, and two “tricks” that will cost you in a claim.
Four quarters usually cost more than one annual policy for the same year of cover. How to check it in a quote, and when the quarter is worth it anyway.
The Auxiliary Fund compensates the victims of uninsured vehicles in Greece, up to the legal minimum limits. What to do at the scene, and which covers spare you the wait.
Third-party cover is in every rental by law. Damage to the vehicle is yours up to an excess of €650 to €3,000, and tyres, glass and ferries often sit outside.
You need a Greek tax number, a car on Greek plates and a licence that is valid here. Foreign plates may stay six months a year. Your claim-free years can count.
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