Greek News

Piraeus Bank has significantly reduced its reliance on the European Central Bank's Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA), and plans to fully eliminate it in 2018, its CEO has told Bloomberg. The bank ends 2017 with NPL stock below €20 billion ($24.4...

    Media in FYROM are reporting claims the country will be offered NATO membership if a "mutually acceptable solution" is reached on the name dispute with Greece. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's secretary-general, is currently on a two-day official visit to Skopje and...

    More Greeks are in work but over half are struggling to get by on flexible or part-time contracts, data reported in Greek media has suggested. Although many are pleased to be in work, employers are struggling to hire or retain...

  Travel to and from Greece appears to be on the rise as Greek media reports air passenger numbers at the country’s airports set a new record last year, reaching 58 million. According to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data reported by...

    A mysterious fishy visitor to Greek waters has left locals in the Ionian island of Zakynthos in a panic. Two fishermen recently shared footage of a chance encounter with an enormous ocean sunfish, an animal usually unknown in Greek waters as...

Greek defense ministry sources have told local media a Turkish coastguard vessel in the Aegean clipped a Greek military ship during a "dangerous maneuver" on Wednesday. The Greek gunboat Nikiforos came into contact with the Turkish craft around 2.30 p.m. local...

Over half of the refugees coming to the Greek islands of Lesvos and Samos in December were women and children, the UN has said. In a new report for December 2017, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said sea arrivals decreased...

    All of us had special toys that we treasured as we grew up but not everyone can say they were presented with a wooden horse by the leader of Greece’s independence movement. Yet it is special artifacts like the toy...

Bon viveur, Resistance fighter, pioneering merchant -- Greece lost one of its household names this week with the passing of businessman Grigoris Sarafis, aged 91. Sarafis was an iconic figure for Greeks in the 70s and 80s, when his range...

Australian audiences are getting ready for legendary Greek musician Giannis Haroulis who is bringing his popular mix of Cretan music, blended with folk and modern Greek pop, to Sydney. The 36th Sydney Greek Festival is to be held at Darling...

A group of around 30 people believed to be members of the Greek anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) stormed the Finance ministry in the center of Athens. The group entered the main entrance of the building at Nikis Street and reached...

  A Pakistani man who claimed to be under threat in his home country for his humanist beliefs, had his claim to asylum in the U.K. rejected because he failed to correctly answer questions on ancient Greek philosophers. British newspaper the...

Amid the bloody conflict in Syria, evidence of ancient Greek culture in the war-torn Middle Eastern country has recently been unearthed. Three Byzantine mosaic panels have been discovered inside an archaeological site during a Syrian army mine-clearance operation in the...

UN mediator for the naming dispute between Greece and FYROM has indicated that the term Macedonia will be included in the discussions kicking-off on Wednesday in New York. In an interview with Thanasis Tsitsas of Greece's Antenna TV, Matthew Nimetz said...

A chilling video of an unsuccessful attempt by a pilot to land his aircraft at Kalymnos airport has come to light. The Astra Airlines flight was approaching the landing strip on the Greek island when the wind picked up speed. Its...