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Only a couple of days after a former transport minister, Michalis Liapis - who got booted from the New Democracy Conservatives for it - was charged with driving a luxury car with false license plates to avoid paying a...

Four Greek Australians are candidates with the Labor Party at the next state elections in Victoria. Steve Dimopoulos is candidate for Oakleigh, Nick Staikos for Bentleigh, Helena Consta for Frankston and Philip Dalidakis for the Senate. Mikakou Jenny, Jennifer Kanis and...

The Senate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens announced that the duration of the academic year will be from December 16-August 9. The academic semester was considered to be lost. However, the Senate’s decision managed to save semester. In...

One would say that the Greek Orthodox Church is rather conservative and doesn't keep pace with technology, but it appears that things are starting to change. The  Archdiocese of Athens, trying to reduce bureaucracy, has created a communication network. The Greek Orthodox Church is...

  Amnesty International has called on the Greek government to investigate allegations that the Greek Chief of Police advised officers that undocumented immigrants should be detained for as long as possible, and their “lives made unbearable.” This was part of a related...

Jim Raptis changed the face of the most cosmopolitan region of Australia -- the Gold Coast. Raptis is the Honorary Consulate General of Greece in Australia who once owned a construction enterprise that went bankrupt four years ago due to the...

  Archbishop of America, Demetrios, expressed his deep concern over the statements of turning Hagia Sophia of Istanbul into a Muslim mosque. In a related announcement of the archdiocese, "His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America,...

Thousands of farmers from all over Greece  gathered at Syntagma Square early this morning in preparation of their rally at noon against the government’s controversial  tax bill. The farmers are protesting about the new tax on real estate and...

  As much as we all want to think of Christmas Holidays as a very cheerful time of year, this is not something that jives with reality. In Greece, where the economic crisis has been going on for some years now,...

A CNBC study showed that the Greek stock market has one of the best yields in the world. In fact, the ASE was ranked fourth on a global scale for 2013. First place went to the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange...

In an unprecedented move, a group of civil servants of the State-owned Hellenic Horse Racing Organization (ODIE) have demanded that the Greek government together with the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED), move forward as fast as possible with the corporation’s...

German MEP Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, who has Greek origins, was upset with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the summit in Brussels because of her statements that “a Solidarity Fund will lead to a European budget, to achieve convergence.” MEP Chatzimarkakis noted...

The Financial and Economic Crime Unit are investigating German automakers based in Greece. The Greek tax authorities are investigating tax fraud of automakers like Mercedes, Opel, BMW. According to the Director of Financial Crime controls, Floratou, the reason for the...

Turkish-Greek affairs concerns trade, tourism, investment, euros and dollars. Turkish direct investments in Greece stand at a disproportionate $200 million. There are only 20 Turkish companies operating in Greece, mostly in banking, furniture, marina, textiles and paper industries. The...

The Munich Glyptothek, one of the most important museums in Germany, opened its doors on December 16 for the Arsinoe of Thrace collection from Alexandroupolis, welcoming an event of this kind for the first time. Greek women wearing airy...