Greek News

South African MP George Michalakis, who has Greek origins, is the younger person to ever be elected in the country’s parliament. Michalakis is just 26 years old and comes from a village called Egrigoros, located in northern Chios, Greece. He was elected...

The Greek unemployment rate rose slightly to 26% of the workforce in December 2014, from 25.9% in November, but fell compared with a 27.3% rate in December 2013, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Thursday. The statistics service, in a monthly...

French film "Salt People (Greece in Camargue)," detailing the lives of Greek salt workers, just got fully funded on French website Touscoprod (akin to Kickstarter). The film follows the stories and lives of Greeks in Salin-de-Giraud, France, whose ancestors came...

Greece will participate in the 60th Eurovision song contest in Vienna, with the song “One Last Breath” performed by Greek-Cypriot Maria-Elena Kiriakou. The young singer stole the spotlight when she performed in the special event that took place in...

The President and CEO of Greece ’s state-run power utility company PPC, Arthouros Zervos, submitted his resignation to the Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis on Wednesday evening, who accepted it. In his resignation, Zervos says the decision...

Tabling bills under emergency procedures -- a practice abused in the last parliamentary period -- will not be repeated in this Parliament, nor can the practice of attaching amendments to entirely unrelated bills, Greece 's Parliament president Zoi Konstantopoulou...

There’s an alternative plan if Greece doesn’t receive its loan installment in March, Greece 's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said on Wednesday during a speech at an event marking the 130-year anniversary of the Greek-French Chamber of Commerce and...

About twenty representatives from the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund will arrive to Athens next week to review the progress of reforms and measures Greece has agreed to implement. This time the number of...

The Greek government is trying to find ways to secure liquidity until June without pension and salary cuts or extra contributions to security funds. With Monday's Eurogroup approaching, Greece's partners increase pressure through the European Central Bank. The Greek government...

The Federation of Greek Communities in Ukraine received medical supplies for the villages of the wider Mariupol and eastern Ukraine area, on Tuesday, March 3. Many Ukrainian citizens of Greek origin reside in the area and will benefit from...

A Greek student who had traveled to Rome, Italy as part of a six-day school trip was rushed to the hospital after falling from a second floor balcony. The girl who came from Imathia, northern Greece is currently undergoing...

With Greece and its shaky future on the European table and the German press “embellishing” almost all of its top headlines with indirect comments about Greece’s controversial bailout program, an anonymous writer took the initiative to target the Greek family business “Restaurant...

What comes first for Greece is the implementation of the Eurogroup agreement, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a joint press conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday after their meeting at the European Commission headquarters. On whether Germany is ready...

His advice to the newly elected Greek government expressed today Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. As he highlighted on the sidelines of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation's conference held in Dublin, Greece should follow his country's steps in order...

North London Conservative MP David Burrowes has once again raised the Cyprus' long standing issue at the House of Commons Foreign Policy Session. Burrowes, a well-known friend of Cypriot people, brought the burning issue back to date with a question to his...