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"No special treatment for Greece," said CDU lawmaker Volker Kauder, adding a new episode in the caustic verbal exchange between Greek and German officials. Kauder, who is considered to be Angela Merkel's "right hand," spoke to German newspaper Bild on...

Greece on Friday paid 348 million euros for the repayment of the second part of the loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that falls due this March, following a decision by the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA). Last week,...

The Moscow Greek Culture Center is organizing an event aiming at the promotion of Greece in Russia, but also for the creation of common pages in the two countries' history. Greek Culture Week will take place from March 19 to 25, on...

Sam Voutas, director of the Chinese indie hit “Red Light Revolution,” has started work on a new project – “King of Peking.” The film takes place in 1998 China and is set in the world of movie piracy, though it...

The Greek Generation Y would like to work for a multi-national corporation with good pay, job security and a good balance between work and personal life. According to a survey conducted by the Athens University of Economics and Business in...

Greece relies on tourism for its economy and must protect its beaches through a policy directly linked to managing garbage and household waste, head of the European Commission office in Greece Panos Karvounis said on Thursday, during a one-day...

Australians placed the Greek island of Crete on the top of European island destinations. According to the country's most popular travel website, traveller.com.au, a close associate of TripAdvisor, the most beautiful island in Europe is Crete, which is the “is both...

Europeans must work together to find a solution for Greece, said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker during his meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Brussels. The EC chief said he is optimistic that negotiations on Greece's bailout will...

The unemployment rate has started rising again in the last quarter of 2014, after a brief period of decline, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) reports. For the period October-December 2014, the unemployment figure climbed to 26.1 percent with 1,245,854 Greeks...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) on Thursday criticized the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for maintaining a hypocritical stance towards the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), saying it was the ND-led government which first cooperated with the...

Greece must help itself because a Grexit or a Grexident is not ruled out, said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble speaking on Austrian television on Thursday. As the verbal exchange between Schaeuble and Athens continues, the German finance minister spoke...

The main building of the School of Law in downtown Athens, Greece, has been occupied by a group of anarchists, who have issued a statement with demands. The invaders, reportedly members of a so-called anti-state movement, told the students...

The demarche made to the German government by Greece was not based on misinterpretation, Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Constantinos Koutras said on Thursday, in response to a German journalist’s question on the matter. "It was very mistakenly reported by a...

Deputy Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis has proved once again that in Greek politics, a Minister doesn't necessarily need to have any idea of the portfolio he is getting. Either that, or Mr. Kontonis lives on another planet. A planet where football,...

Greek director Costas Vakkas will present a different, radical version of Greek migrants’ history in the US through his documentary “Dan Georgakas: A Diaspora Rebel,” which will be screened at the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. In an interview, Greek-American poet, writer,...