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In an attempt to calm farmers the government proceeded to announce a new improved proposal for farmer taxation. During their meeting Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, heads of the Ministry of Rural Development, Deputy Minister of Finance, Giorgos Mavraganis...

Residents of the Greek island Cephalonia are faced with yet another problem. After the large-scale earthquakes, rumors about future more powerful earthquakes, major damages in buildings, lack of food and shelter, earthquake victims will have to face bad weather...

There’s so many scandals in Greece that you need a scorecard to keep them straight and they all involve politicians, businessmen and connected people who thought, often with much justification that either they were too smart to get caught,...

Greek Police announced the arrest at dawn on Thursday of a 26-year-old fugitive in the area of Acharnes in Athens, Greece, who has been convicted in absentia for the murder of two officers in a DIAS motorcycle patrol, carried...

On February 4, the Greek Embassy in Belgium organized a high technology conference in order to bring together representatives of Greek and Belgian companies and institutions to promote cooperation in the field of high technology and innovation. The event was...

The 64th Berlin International Film Festival will be held from February 6 to February 16, 2014. The President of the International Jury who will decide the recipient of Golden Bear award is American producer of Brokeback Mountain, James Schamus. The...

The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games 2014 in  Sochi, Russia, is taking place February 7 at 6.30 p.m. The Greek mountainous village Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) will also host a part of the biggest sporting event in...

An exhibition is being organized by the Louvre Museum that plans to bring together all the unique artifacts found during excavations on the Greek island of Rhodes and are now scattered in different European museums. The major temporary exhibition will...

On Thursday morning, Greek doctors, nurses and employees of EOPYY left their offices and gathered in the centre of Athens to protest against the Greek government’s plans concerning the ostensible reform of Greece’s main healthcare provider. After 11 am, protesters...

  Greek police authorities arrested a 48-year-old Bulgarian national in Larissa. According to reports of the Struma newspaper, the Bulgarian authorities issued the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). On Tuesday afternoon the Bulgarian perpetrator was identified in the region Tyrnavos of Larissa by...

Cyprus' reeling banks, brought to the edge of ruin by bad loans and bad business decisions, now have to face a mountain of non-performing loans as people hit by austerity measures can't afford to pay what they owe, further...

Six master programs of the Athens University of Economics and Business (OPA) ranked among the best in Europe. The evaluation and the ranking were conducted by Eduniversal organization. In a total of 12,000 Postgraduate Programs only 4,000 were selected, which...

The ultimatum that Greek farmers issued to the Greek government in order for their demands to be met finally come to an end at noon today. The farmers warned that they will be setting up roadblocks all over the...

The Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) of Greece has brought to light a new fraud, this time involving cash registers. The technique is rather simple: the controls that take place in Greek shops have a goal of making...

According to the annual salary and benefit survey conducted by KPMG per sector, managers of the pharmaceutical and agrochemical sectors appear to be the “champions” in domestic entrepreneurship for 2013. KPMG’s surveys have been present in the Greek market for...