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Athens Archbishop Ieronymos told the Pan-Thracian Committee that Greece is being "blackmailed by its creditors." He described Greece as being water boarded. "They are drowning us, they are leading us to asphyxiation, until they achieve full surrender," he said....

Greece's main opposition leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, ruled out all prospects of cooperation with the left-wing SYRIZA government and current Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. In an interview published in German daily newspaper Deutsche Welle on Friday, he made it clear that there was...

The Greek economic team is close to a plan that would tax voluntarily disclosed hidden income more than 50%, without the accord of creditors so far. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, in Thursday's cabinet meeting on economic policy the...

The son of Environment and Energy Minister Panos Sourletis was among four people arrested for vandalizing a Golden Dawn office in Athens on Wednesday. The 21-year-old Vassilis Skourletis was among a group of about 50 anarchists and leftists who demonstrated...

According to data published by Trivago, online booking rates for Greek Hotels have increased 8.3% for the year-on-year statistics in July. Interestingly, the average cost for a double room has risen from 121 euros per night to 131. The Greek island of...

Work on the construction of a mosque in Athens' Votanikos district was given the all-clear to continue on Thursday, based on a ruling issued by the fourth section of the Council of State (CoS), Greece's supreme administrative court. The 850-square-metre mosque,...

European Stability Mechanism (ESM) will present in the coming weeks its proposals on short-term debt relief for Greece, its managing director Klaus Regling said on Thursday in an interview with French newspaper Les Echos. Regling described the three short-term measures:...

Α total of 150,000 Chinese tourists visited Greece last year, Alternate Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura said adding that if that number increased to 500,000-1,000,000, she would be very happy. The success of Greek tourism would be the increase of revenues proportionally...

According to the General Secretary of Civil Protection, the areas of Attica, Evia, Chios, Samos, Ikaria, Crete and islands in the South Aegean are at high risk of wildfires breaking out. The Civil Protection warning was issued Friday. The General Secretary...

The non-participation of the International Monetary Fund in Greece's bailout program does not mean the program will fail, said the Fund's chief Christine Lagarde. The IMF managing director spoke to AFP on Thursday, saying that there is a possibility the...

Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Deputy Chairman and Çanakkale deputy Bülent Turan called on Greek authorities to end the suppression of Turkish schools in Greece, a Daily Sabah report says. "We opened a Greek high school in Gökçeada (Imvros),...

The Cyprus Foreign Ministry is urging the Turkish government to cooperate for the resolution of the missing persons issue, including granting the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) all information and data that from the Turkish military archives. Turkish-Cypriot “Afrika” reported...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Warsaw. The two leaders will discuss the Brexit repercussions on the European Union, the Greek bailout program,...

A theatrical performance like no other is taking place at the Young Vic in London England, where a group of Syrian women are re-telling a tragic Greek tale from a modern-day perspective in a documentary filmed by Yasmin Fedda. For her award-winning...

On January 1, 2016, Eurostat recorded the population of the European Union at 510.1 million people, compared with 508.3 million on January 1, 2015. During the year, there were 5.1 million babies born in the European Union, though more...