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The President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, will attend, along with other European leaders, the 45th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that will be held in Davos, Switzerland, between January 21 and 24. According to a...

His personal estimations and worries, just a week ahead of the critical January 25 Greek general elections, expressed in an article published by Italian newspaper "Il Messaggero" the Italian Former Prime Minister and Former President of the European Commission,...

Greece's Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis warned that the country's economy could suffer a significant drop back into recession if the Greek bailout program review remains stalled. In an interview with the Sunday edition of Greek newspaper "Kathimerini," Hardouvelis pointed...

Greek-American Stanford School of Medicine Professor John Ioannidis led a recent epidemiological research that showed more than two-thirds of cancer diagnostic tests do not save patients’ lives. The distinguished Greek-American scientist and his research team published their study in the “International Journal...

The vast majority of Germans believe that Greece has no place in the euro zone, according to a survey published in German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the survey, 81 percent of German citizens responded "yes" to the...

Belgium will request the extradition of a man arrested in Greece who is suspected to be linked to a jihadist cell dismantled by Belgian security forces earlier this week, federal prosecutors said on Sunday. The 33-year-old man of Algerian descent...

Greeks of Diaspora still do not have the chance to vote in the upcoming Greek general elections, as voting will take place only inside Greece's borders. We decided to start a survey to find out more about how Diaspora...

The remains found in the grave of the Amphipolis tomb, Greece , belong to five dead and not one, as archaelogists had initially thought. Greece 's Ministry of Culture made an official announcement today saying that the laboratory results of...

The first images of the “Norman Atlantic” garage were released in a video posted on the Italian website brindisioggi.it. These first shocking images show the damage caused to the ferry from the fire that broke out in the garage on the...

Mathieu Dossevi and Yiannis Maniatis scored in the second half to give defending champion Olympiakos a 2-0 victory win over visiting Panetolikos in the Greek league Sunday (video). Dossevi opened the scoring in the 69th with a shot from close...

Thirteen surveys on voting intentions show that SYRIZA is most likely the winner of the January 25th general elections. New Party To Potami (The River) gets crucial third place. Kathimerini daily has combined 12 surveys from research companies and a...

A haircut on the Greek debt capital will not be discussed, said several EU executives, including Prime Minister of Finland Alexander Stubb, according to a report in real.gr. "There is no political will among euro zone member states for debt...

Any new Greek government will have to deliver on the commitments of its predecessors and continue reforms, the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker told Reuters news agency. His comments are seen as a clear warning to SYRIZA, which...

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Greece about the consequences of a Greek debt restructuring after the January 25 elections where anti-memorandum SYRIZA is in the lead. The leftist political party, SYRIZA, claims that if elected...

The leader of the Movement of Democrats Socialists, Giorgos Papandreou, has proposed a new referendum in which the Greek people would decide on how the new government will negotiate the debt. Mr. Papandreou stressed that the referendum would give the...