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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew spoke with Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem by telephone on Friday and urged the European Commission to provide meaningful debt relief to Greece, a Treasury spokesperson said. According to Reuters, Lew said the U.S. continues to...

Water transfer from Turkey to the Turkish occupied area of Cyprus constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and continuation of unlawful conduct against the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic, stated the Acting President of the...

One in three Greeks is either poor, close to poverty, or facing unemployment, according to new figures by Eurostat. The purpose of the particular survey by the European statistical authority was to determine the percentage of Europeans living in conditions...

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias criticized opposition parties for revealing the content of a letter sent to them by the government asking for their opinion on the name of FYROM issue. Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos revealed the content of the...

Four more children have been added to the death toll of refugees who are losing their lives tragically on an ongoing struggle to cross the waters from Turkey to the nearby Greek islands. A rubber boat carrying 17 people including...

More than 15,000 people have registered to join in the 29th Tour of Athens charity run taking place in the city on Sunday, which this year seeks to raise awareness for children suffering from epilepsy and help with the...

The U.N. refugee agency is warning that Greece cannot cope with the flood of refugees and migrants landing on its shores because it lacks proper reception facilities to register and screen them. The backlog in processing is increasing tension, violence...

The third Greek bailout survived its first Greek parliamentary test since its inception. In the early hours of Saturday morning the Greek Parliament legislated a list of prior actions that international creditors had demanded be ratification in exchange for the disbursement of additional bailout...

The first migrant and refugee registration centre opened in the East Aegean Greek island of Lesvos on Friday at a former military base in the area of Moria. The hotspot will be operated by Greek authorities as well as Frontex and Europol...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressed the Greek Parliament on Friday a few hours before 300 Greek MPs decide whether or not they will legislate the bailout prior actions. Prior actions legislation will ensure the disbursement of 2 billion euros in...

We spoke with Greek actor Alexis Georgoulis who is starring in "The Durrells," the new series of the British iTV channel, currently being filmed on the Ionian Island of Corfu, Greece. Originally from the small village of Agiocampos in Larissa,...

The first modern-day Olympic Marathon winner at the 1896 Summer Olympics Spyros (Spyridon) Louis will be featured on around 750,000 new €2 coins that will be released later this fall issued by Greece. This marks the 75th anniversary of the athlete’s death, who...

Municipal Police officers will reappear in the Greek capital on October 26th, after a two year absence. The New Democracy-PASOK-DIMAR coalition government had abolished the municipal police units across Greece in the summer of 2013 to cut down on spending costs. However, in 2014 the...

The recapitalization needs of Greece's systemic banks will be determined in the next few days after finalizing the results of current stress tests, with the aim to cover any capital needs by the end of the year, banking sources...

The refugee crisis is allegedly a bigger priority than the implementation of the Greek bailout for the German government and that could influence how each of the two is managed. German weekly magazine WirtschaftsWoche cites German government officials who claim that the German...