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The institutions' latest proposals are "absurd" and exceed the limits of Greek society's endurance, the SYRIZA Political Secretariat concluded on Wednesday after a sweeping discussion on the proposals and the next moves for the Greek government and the party. Sources at the meeting...

For the third time this year, Turkish F-16 aircraft flew over the small Greek islet of Anthropofagoi in the Fournoi archipelago. According to the Greek Defense Ministry announcement, four Turkish Air Force F-16s entered Athens' FIR at 2:41 pm at the north...

According to deviant burials unearthed at the necropolis of Greek colony Passo Mariano in Sicily, Italy, modern Greeks are not the first generation to fear the walking dead. According to the unique graves that were unearthed in the ancient cemetery, ancient Greeks feared...

The financial crisis in Greece has driven people out of the country. Thousands of Greeks have fled to other countries searching for job opportunities in their attempt to have a better future. A large number of people chose to...

The Hellenic Coast Guard rescued 237 illegal migrants in seven separate incidents that occurred in the Aegean Sea, Greece over the last 24 hours. The location and rescue operation were conducted off the coast of three Greek islands located...

Greek composer and former political figure Mikis Theodorakis calls on Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to not follow the way of his predecessors and sign a bad agreement with creditors. The awarded composer gave an interview to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine...

"Either they do not want an agreement or they serve special interests in Greece," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said to his colleagues, shortly before departing for Brussels. The Greek prime minister was referring to the insistence of the International Monetary...

Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine that became widely known after the jihadist attack in its offices at the beginning of the year and the mayhem that followed, has targeted Greece’s European partners, criticizing the management of the Greek crisis. The magazine’s...

Fearing the potential impact of Greece eventually exiting the Eurozone on the French economy, President Francois Hollande held a secret meeting with the German Social Democratic Party leaders behind Angela Merkel’s back in 2012, NSA intercepts show. The NSA intelligence...

“Orlean,” a feature film by famous Russian director Andrey Proshkin and award-winning screenwriter Yuriy Arabov attracted much attention in Moscow, while the fact that a Greek actress stars in the film has made Greeks in the Russian capital proud. A...

Russia is planning to hold a discussion with the European Commission, and in particular with Commissioner for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic, about the infrastructure construction outlook for transporting natural gas via the TurkStream and its extension, the South European...

New Democracy circles reiterated on Tuesday their proposal for a national consensus to achieve a different policy mix which would be fiscally sustainable, growth-friendly and socially fair. The party also criticized the government’s handling of the ongoing negotiations with Greece...

We achieved the most balanced agreement taken into account the circumstances," Greek Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis on Wednesday said in statements to Mega TV. The Minister described the measures "balanced" because as he said "lenders initially demanded direct pensions and...

The Greek government's proposal, in order to make a deal with the country’s creditors, was accompanied by taxes amounting to 7.9 billion euros, while the taxes on the two previous bailout programs amounted to 7.7 billion euros in total. The...

The European Central Bank is the institution that can be forced to pull the trigger on Greece if negotiations with creditors do not lead to an agreement, says a Financial Times report. Greek banks rely entirely on the ECB to...