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The Greek state budget showed a primary surplus of 4.348 billion euros in the January - November period compared to 3.566 billion euros in the corresponding period last year, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. The general government deficit came...

An international research team led by Greek professor of biochemistry; Dimitris Moulas received high honors in a leading international conference. Moulas, professor at the Department of Biochemistry of the Technological Institute in Thessaly, and his team participated in the...

Charles Darwin University in Australia has appointed Greek artist Nikos Kourkoulis as its first Greek studies program ambassador. The artist was honored to be chosen and stated that he would use his position to promote the program. In fact the...

An exhibition entitled Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, featuring 50 rare Greek bronze sculptures, opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, on December 13. It also features other related works dating from...

Greek financial authorities acted on a bank account list recently provided by German authorities by raiding the UBS Athens branch on Friday evening and seizing information. Following the raid, Greek authorities identified 200 people who were included in the latest bank account compilation that has...

The European Union is looking to take a decisive step in establishing a more proactive border control in light of rising concern's over the union's security. Frontex, the EU's current border authority, could soon be in the past. The body largely has...

"Conditions are overripe (for a name solution), given that we’ve been waiting for more than two decades," said FYROM Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, on the controversial issue of the name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Poposki spoke to Kathimerini daily...

Christmas and New Year's days are holiday celebrations full of love. They are days meant to be spent with our family and friends, enjoying their company and exchanging gifts. In Greek tradition, the gift exchange occurs after midnight on New...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted that his government could have been braver in deliberations with Greece's international lenders that brought the austere bailout program. Tsipras was interviewed for a documentary series called '#ThisIsACoup.' The documentary is made by Theopi Skarlatos...

Welfare Secretary General Dimitris Karellas said that one in three students goes to school hungry, announcing a program that would feed some of the children. Speaking on Mega television on Tuesday morning, Karellas said that 200,000 out of 600,000 elementary...

  The leaders of the European Union are set to unveil a number of measures its members states will have to enforce by February, in response to the refugee crisis and growing security concerns. Amid the continuous influx of migrants and refugees,...

Another 3,355 refugees arrived early on Tuesday at Piraeus port. "Blue Star 1" carried 1,022 refugees from Mytilene and Chios, "Blue Star Patmos" carried 1,197 refugees from Mytilene and "Nisos Rhodos" carried 1,136 from Mytilene, Chios and Samos. PM Tsipras to...

The ministry of migration policy is planning to turn former Athens airport at Elliniko into a hospitality camp for migrants. Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas on Monday met with members and the president of Central Union of Greek Municipalities (KEDE)...

Three more migrants lost their lives in the perilous journey from the Turkish coasts to Greece's islands. There are three more people missing, according to the Hellenic Coast Guard. On Monday night Turkish authorities notified Greece's coast guard that there...

The Board of Directors of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation approved today a grant of €1,000,000 to support a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including Doctors Without Borders Hellas, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Lifeguards Hellas, among others. The new...