Greek News

Travel + Leisure, a New York-based monthly magazine with 4.8 million readers worldwide, voted Santorini in the southern Aegean Sea, Greece, as the World's Best Island for 2014. The Greek island gained the first place with a score of 89.98 leaving...

After many delays in payment, inhumane living conditions and racist treatment by the Greek Police, 800 immigrant farm workers of mainly Pakistani origin proceeded with a strike last week in the town of Skala, Peloponnese, in southern Greece. The strike began on July 3 and...

CNN recently made a tribute to the services of the Hellenic Seaplanes company for its aim to connect more than 100 locations throughout Greece by 2016. The first routes will be launched in May 2015. The company was founded in...

Greece on Tuesday successfully auctioned a three-month Treasury bill issue raising 1.625 billion euros from the market at a lower cost. In an announcement, the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) said that the interest rate of the issue was set at...

Local residents of Thessaloniki in northern Greece are outraged by a decision to build an apartment block on top of a recently discovered ancient Greek temple in the heart of the city. The temple of goddess Aphrodite, which was brought to Thessaloniki...

With a letter addressed to the Greek newspaper “Proto Thema,” the Turkish ambassador in Athens raised a question concerning the nationality of Karagkiozis, a famous character in Greek shadow theater. Citing the decisions of two international organizations which he...

The Greek Appeals Court that convened on Tuesday decided to adopt prosecutor Isidoros Doyiakos' opinion that Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos should be placed under house arrest after a disagreement between the prosecutor and the examining magistrates responsible for...

The patient who accused the 60-year-old heart surgeon and director of Evangelismos Hospital, Greece, for bribery, passed away in the hospital. The 67-year-old man, whose story came to light last Thursday, passed away on Monday, July 14 in the Intensive...

The City Council of Mons in Belgium decided to give the name of Melina Mercouri to a central avenue honoring the Greek politician who launched the institution of Cultural Capitals of Europe in 1983. Mons has been proclaimed the Cultural...

AP - More than 40 years after a New York man last saw his high school class ring, the love token his wife had until their wedding night popped up on a Greek island. How it got to Naxos, Greece,...

Over 260,000 businesses in Greece, including big companies, have outstanding debts to social security funds. Pension fund officials say that without additional measures to restructure outstanding debt payments, the vast majority of businesses will go bankrupt, dealing a devastating...

Almost one in three Greeks state that they had never used a computer in their life (34.4%), or surfed the internet (36.3%). More women (40.8%) than men (35.9%) have never used the internet. On the other hand, the number of Greeks...

We may be in the middle of the summer, but a shift in weather is expected today, with heavy rainfall and thunderstorms expected today in most parts of Greece. The change in weather started yesterday, when Thessaloniki experienced heavy rainfall...

The government and Greek banks are considering a change of rules governing the operation of the Tiresias Credit Consolidation System, by introducing a more flexible system in order to stop the rising number of bad loans. In this context, authorities are examining...

AP - The European Parliament has elected former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker as the new leader of the 28-nation bloc's executive arm. Lawmakers in Strasbourg on Tuesday voted 422-250 for the 59-year-old who will take over as European Commission...