Greek News

Lefkada island in Greece is still getting hit by strong aftershocks three days after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that killed 2 people. Three aftershocks ranging between 4.3 to 4.9 magnitude occurred the first hours of November 20th.   There are no reported...

Amidst warm applause and in a highly emotional ceremony, UNICEF Greece on Thursday presented the Lambros Kanellopoulos award to Greece's coast guard for its search-and-rescue efforts in the Aegean, especially its work for the protection of refugee and migrant...

The fallout from the Islamic State group's terror attacks in Paris has put the future of Europe’s passport-free travel area, known as the "Schengen Zone," in doubt. Several of the perpetrators were known to intelligence agencies, but were not...

Greece is one step closer to receiving additional bailout funds after the Greek parliament legislated a new set of prior actions on Thursday evening, albeit with a very fragile and newly hampered majority. 153 MPs voted in favor of the...

  The SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government took a bad internal loss this Thursday. Following the resignation of Gavriil Sakerllaridis from his SYRIZA MP post, SYRIZA MP Stathis Panagoulis and ANEL MP Nikos Nikolopoulos were removed from their parties for respectively abstaining and voting against the set of...

Nutritionists encourage people to focus on the Mediterranean diet, following the traditional dietary patterns that were originally inspired by the countries of Greece and Spain as well as the region Southern Italy. According to scientists, eating primarily plant-based foods, replacing butter with healthy fats,...

Amid instability and high security alerts throughout the European continent, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann called for the European Union to buttress the protection of its own borders, during a joint press conference on Thursday in Berlin. Since...

Now more than ever Mytilene and the whole Greek island of Lesvos is facing one of the turning points of modern history. Its geographical location makes it by default one of the main gateways for refugees and migrants seeking...

European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety; Vytenis Andriukaitis arrived earlier in Athens and will leave for the island Lesvos on Thursday to visit health centers and other areas accommodating refugees and migrants. The Commissioner’s first stop will be Mytilene’s...

Greece's northern border with FYROM looks to be overwhelmed, after FYROM and other European countries begin turning down migrants from countries that are not engulfed in armed conflict. According to the Athens Macedonian News Agency, 200 migrants, most of them...

Turkish authorities on Thursday deported a 40-year-old Greek Muslim from Thrace back to Greece, claiming that he had been on his way to Syria in "order to join in the fighting". The 40-year-old, who was arrested in Turkey on Wednesday...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asked parliament member Gavriil Sakellaridis to resign after the latter said he will abstain from Thursday's vote on the omnibus bill that includes unpopular measures. Sakellaridis had served as government spokesperson and deputy minister to the...

The European Commission proposes fines and refers Greece back to the Court of Justice of the EU over persistent poor waste water treatment, says a EC press release. The Court of Justice of the EU ruled in 2004 that Greece...

The possible redrawing of the Schengen Treaty zone will be discussed at an emergency European Union meeting on Friday, with Greece being in danger of being placed outside the Schengen borders, according to a Daily Mail report. Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg...

Honduran authorities announced on Wednesday that they had arrested six Syrian nationals traveling on forged Greek passports, including five who had been trying to reach the United States. According to Reuters, Honduran police said there were no signs of any...