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"The main mission of NATO in the Aegean will be surveillance," Alternate Minister for Civil Protection Nikos Toskas on Sunday said in an interview with newspaper "Avghi." "NATO will be responsible for the surveillance and observation of migratory flows and...

The quartet of Greece's creditors return to Greece on Monday to discuss several issues that remain unresolved, with the finance minister worrying that new fiscal measures might be needed. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos says that the bailout program evaluation must...

About 4,000 people are stranded at the Piraeus Port as police are not allowing them to board buses for the Greece-FYROM border. The refugees have arrived at the port waiting to be transported to Idomeni, at the border between Greece...

Greece-Turkey relations are about to be put to the test on March 6, when Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will participate in the European Union summit on the refugee crisis. Athens is considering that the key to stemming the refugee...

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The government of FYROM has sealed off its southern borders to Greece to Afghan migrants, allowing only Iraqis and Syrians to get through. FYROM government officials said they were forced to take this decision because of similar restrictions by their...

"An ecumenical government is not the solution to Greece's problems," main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday said in an interview with "VIMAGAZINO." He also said that he does not trust Alexis Tsipras and he could not co-govern...

The month-long mass protests by Greek farmers against pension reform that have paralyzed much of the country appear to have entered a new stage as most of their representatives have opted for talks with the government. However, some unions...

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos in an interview with RealNews newspaper on Sunday sent a message to the IMF to understand that Greece is a European country. He also underlined that the basis for the discussion cannot be other than...

"We will soon have an agreement that will allow the completion of the first program review" before March 27, the Greek Labor Minister George Katrougalos said on Sunday to ANA-MPA, admitting, however, that the negotiation will be hard. Katrougalos, who participated in...

Greek lawmakers late on Saturday voted in favor of the "parallel program" that aims to soften the austerity measures agreed upon under the third economic program. The bill was withdrawn in December after pressure from Greece’s creditors. The Syriza-ANEL coalition government...

Greek judges continue to contest the government’s attempts to cut wages and pensions, something they have been doing at least since 2012. According to a report in the Greek daily To Ethnos, a new court ruling challenging the legality of...

Greece has the third highest tax rate in Europe, according to a study by the Department of Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The study, reported in one of Greece’s leading daily newspapers Ta Nea, reveals that...

Thessaloniki, the second largest Greek city, is located in northern Greece, in the administrative region of Central Macedonia and is commonly known among Greeks as the country's co-capital. It is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial and political center,...

The Greek authorities have made significant “improvements” to reform proposals in order to accommodate the wishes of the country’s lenders. Technical teams from the “institutions” will return to Athens on Monday, according to sources from the Greek Ministry of...