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The EU should make available aid worth €8.8 million to help find or create new jobs for workers made redundant by fashion retailer Sprider Stores in Greece and jewellery maker Andersen Ireland Limited in Ireland, recommended the Budgets Committee...

Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), Gus M. Bilirakis (FL-12), Ted Deutch (FL-21) and 14 of their House colleagues are calling on Secretary of State John Kerry to strongly oppose the invasion of waters off the southern coast of Cyprus...

A new EU Commission report called European Vacancy and Recruitment Report 2014, shows that Greece is one of the European countries that tops the list of layoffs after the crisis began. Greece being first in unemployment also exhibits the...

The Greek Minister of Education Andreas Loverdos has reacted to the “sit-ins” of secondary school students throughout Greece. As the Greek Minister stated yesterday in his address to the Greek Parliament, he expressed major concerns on how missed school...

Men in Cyprus earn 16.4 percent more than women, according to a report in the Cyprus Mail. This puts Cyprus in the top 10 of European Union countries with the biggest gender pay gap. Cyprus Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said...

Two Melbourne Greek-Australian scientists are among the world's top scientists for 2014, according to the Sunday edition of "Eleftheros Typos" newspaper. Thomson Reuters made a list with 3,200 scientists from all over the world, whose work has benefited the planet....

A Turkish corvette under the name “Buyukada” entered Greek territorial waters in the Kafirea region from the Xeros Bay at 3 a.m. this morning. The corvette then moved to the south-southwest and passed through the islands of Kea and...

It seems that people's addiction to smartphones doesn't only cause accidents on the road, but apparently even when they are robbing museums. The reader who sent us the video wrote "Check this out, Greek robbers can't multitask because their smartphone...

Nikos Dendias tabled his last regulation as Minister of Development earlier today. He was later sworn before the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos as the new National Defense Minister replacing Dimitris Avramopoulos. The amendment regards bad business loans...

Chairman of the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures, David Hill, during an interview with the Greek service of the Australian SBS state radio network, expressed his belief that the Parthenon marbles -- now on display...

President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias received main opposition SYRIZA President Alexis Tsipras earlier today, in the first of a series of scheduled meetings with political leaders. During the meeting, the President asked Mr. Tsipras for a "minimum...

Greece will not be able to exit its ongoing bailout program earlier than scheduled without an additional assistance package from its lenders, an unnamed senior European Union official stated according to Reuters. "A completely clean exit is highly unlikely,"...

AP - Greece 's top security official says his government has accepted a request from the United States to step up screening at the country's ports and airports for suspected volunteers traveling from Europe to fight with Islamic State...

Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, was received by President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias, only a few hours after he received main opposition SYRIZA President, Alexis Tsipras, at the second of a series of scheduled meetings to be held...

Any failure of a court in Messolonghi, western Greece, to consider the racist motive in the brutal attack on a Romani woman and her nephew will be a failure of justice, Amnesty International said ahead of the opening of...