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Sparks flew at the off-the-agenda Greek Parliament debate on corruption. Launching into the debate, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused the opposition party of berating his government and tripping it up as it was trying to clean up the...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has said that the Turkish occupied town of Morphou is among the areas that must be returned to the Greek Cypriots, under their administration, once a settlement of the Cyprus problem is achieved. Speaking during an...

David Lipton, Special Advisor to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was interviewed by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. During the interview he refuted comments made by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble that the IMF would acquiesce...

The Eurogroup welcomed the implementation of the 15 milestones set for Greece in the context of the first review of the European Stability Mechanism's program, however, this did not result in the unlocking of the full 2.8-billion-euro tranche benchmarked...

Greeks living abroad are welcoming a new program that will allow filing for documents and official certificates from the Greek Consulate services online. The program known as Proxenos has kicked off in pilot mode in Australia. The aims of the...

A huge replica of the Parthenon in Athens made from 100,000 banned books is to rise at the Friedrichsplatz in Kassel Germany next year. The work, created on the initiative of Documenta, aims to recreate a similar project by...

The Greek Film Week, to be held for the first time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, aims to highlight the course and the wealth of the Greek cinema since the 1930s. The festival, which will run until October 16, is organized...

Fortunately, there is not a serious political party in Albania with a nationalist agenda," the President of the Albanian Parliament, former Prime Minister and former Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta, said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency...

The agreement between the EU and Afghanistan that aims to facilitate the repatriation of Afghan migrants who are not entitled to asylum is of particular importance for Greece as it is one of the member states receiving huge pressure...

New clinical evidence on apremilast, a specific drug used to treat psoriasis, was presented at the 25th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology held in Vienna from September 28 to October 2. Tablets that contain apremilast are the...

Authorities in Athens will once again be enforcing restrictions on vehicles entering the city center. According to authorities, starting Monday, October 10, vehicle restrictions will apply allowing cars with license plates ending in even numbers to enter to city center...

There is a steep Greek debt in private loans in comparison with the country's GDP, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini reports. According to the news source, as they break it down the numbers are staggering. The amount that totals in expired private...

On Monday afternoon (today), the Eurogroup in Luxembourg will decide on the disbursement of the 2.8 billion euros loan tranche to Greece. The meeting of the euro zone finance minister officials will be preceded by a Euro Working Group session...

Greek doctors working in the United Kingdom worry that they might lose their jobs after statements by British Prime Minister Theresa May and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Speaking on BBC television on Thursday, May said that the UK National Health...

Swedish-born Greek singer Helena Paparizou is reportedly in talks to represent Greece in the next Eurovision song contest in Kiev next year. The news was revealed by Paparizou's close friend, TV host Themis Georgantas, who said that she was...