Greek News

After four years of national controversy concerning two 2,500 year-old Greek statues, Italy’s Minister of Culture has decided to put them on exhibit once more. The Riace Bronze statues are two life-like, magnificent Greek warriors of Magna Graecia, a Greek...

A Greek police special guard who learned that an elderly woman he had hit with his motorcycle on Dec. 22 while he was off duty died of her injuries killed himself with his service revolve minutes later, police said. The...

The Greek Central Council for Secondary Education (KYSDE) announced the definitive dismissal of the teacher who a year and a half ago caught the Greek Prime Minister’s son cheating on a test and gave him a failing grade in her class. After...

A survey conducted by the Commerce and Services Institute of the National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce (ESEE) has suggested that Greeks will spend on average, 2.51% less this year on the Christmas dinner. The survey was carried out between December...

ATHENS - Greek businesses are hoping against hope that shoppers will come out during the holidays, worried that ongoing austerity - which has seen workers stripped of their annual one-month Christmas bonus - will strip the season not just...

Mission, supported by the Greek Orthodox Church is organizing food banks at the church of Agii Apostoli in central Athens. Every day more and more Athenians are queuing to receive food. According to euronews, the Greek Orthodox church supported Non-governmental Organisation...

The news of Athina Onassis’ miscarriage is circling the world, even though it has not been officially confirmed. Aristotle Onassis’ granddaughter, and the only child of his daughter Christina, miscarried in late November. According to Greek newspaper “ETHNOS,” she only found out...

“The arts are fundamental to our culture,” said Billy Chrissochos. “They inspire us, fostering creativity. They help us express our Hellenic values, building bridges between cultures, and bring us together regardless of ethnicity, religion, or age.  Greeks must be...

In a second test for the government within hours, Greek lawmakers ratified on Saturday evening a law on home foreclosures requested by international lenders under the country's bailout deals. The bill, which partially lifts a previous moratorium on auctions, passed...

Greece's new Zoning Plan for Tourism recently announced provides for an increase in the network of marinas, small ports and harbors in the Ionian Sea, the eastern and southeastern Aegean, and the Saronic, Argolikos and Pagasitikos gulfs. It adds that...

Work has begun on the most complex phase of the world’s longest undersea water pipeline, a project to bring freshwater from Turkey beneath the Mediterranean to the occupied part of Cyprus that proponents say may help reunite the island. The...

The Greek charge d` affairs was summoned to Iran's foreign ministry on Dec. 21, in protest at a secret meeting between European Union parliamentary delegation with two Iranian dissidents in Tehran, IRNA news agency reported on Dec. 22. The meeting...

The President of the Republic, Karolos Papoulias sent a holiday message to all Greeks living abroad. In this he underlined that Greek society has gone long beyond its limits of endurance, and that this has now finally been understood...

Azeri state energy company Socar signed on Saturday afternoon in Athens the agreement for the acquisition of a 66 percent stake in Greece's natural gas transmission network operator DESFA. The ceremony took place in the presence of Energy Minister Yiannis...

The Greek-Australian football club Sydney Olympic is attempting to sign three of Greece’s most famous footballers, and Euro 2004 winners, Angelos Charisteas, Sotirios Kyrgiakos and Pantelis Kafes. The club is hoping that the players will be able to take part...