Greek News

Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) Chairman Konstantinos Botopoulos told international media on Friday that the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) will reopen on Monday, August 3, after shutting down for more than a month. "We are working on the basis of Monday but we are waiting...

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said that talks with creditors on Friday were in a good climate and there was convergence on some issues. Tsakalotos and Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis met today with the representatives of Greece's creditors, Declan Costello from...

Greek main opposition New Democracy was not satisfied with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' responses to questions about former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis' Plan B for the Greek economy. Earlier on Friday, Tsipras admitted he had asked Varoufakis to look into alternative solutions in...

Following reports that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will abstain from taking part in Greece's third bailout program, German media assessed the fragile situation on Friday. German financial newspaper Handelsblatt noted that Eurozone countries will generally tend to postpone problems for the future and questioned...

Despite the fact that the tension between Greece and its creditors has smoothed out, the country still poses a threat to the Eurozone, said Moody's. Now that European Union officials state that the danger of a Grexit is almost eliminated, political...

Now there is a moment of opportunity, a window of opportunity that has to be used not only to get to any deal but get to a good deal, and this opportunity may be the best one we have,...

Yanis Varoufakis was not acting behind his commander's back. Speaking in parliament on Friday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras unequivocally admitted that he knew of the former Finance Minister's now infamous Plan B. "Of course, Ms. Gennimata. Obviously, I had personally given the...

A draft law envisaging a new concession contract between the Greek state and the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) -still pending- will pave the way for the submission of binding offers in a tender to buy 51% in Piraeus' port by...

The last king of Greece, Constantine Glucksburg, is leaving his long time residency in London, UK, and is planning to return to Greece. Glucksburg was Greece's king from 1964 to 1973. Much of his reign was during the Greek military dictatorship that was...

A rare sighting will appear in the Greek sky On Friday, July 31. The Blue Moon, a full moon that surfaces almost every three yeas, will appear over Greece's sky. What is a “blue moon”? Despite its name, a “blue moon” has nothing to do with the...

The evolution of biological human history is finally recomposed and will be narrated during the "Ancient DNA: a window to the past and future" exhibition, hosted at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki through May 31, 2016. The Museum worked together with the Democritus University of Thrace not...

Greek State Minister Panagiotis Nikoloudis presented on Thursday the government’s draft legislation to suppress the cigarette and tobacco "black market." The law introduces production line inspection, as well as packaging, trade, distribution and retail sales, with the proposition to prevent illegal trade and...

"Ancient Blood" is a sensational dance theater experience about women who struggle with their own deep-seated anxiety toward love, power and death. The performance is a vivid depiction of some of the primordial passions still running our modern societies because they are, after...

Travel editor Isabel Choat of British newspaper The Guardian presents the 10 most affordable holiday destinations in Europe for the summer of 2015, with "Areti Camping & Bungalows" in Chalkidiki, Greece, ranking second in her list. 1. Fattoria Santa Vittoria Farmhouse and Winery, Italy In the rolling...

The SYRIZA Central Committee backed Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' proposal to complete the bailout agreement and then go to an emergency party congress in September. The majority of the 200-strong Committee decided after a 12-hour session that the bailout agreement...