Greek News

The Centre for Dialogue of the La Trobe University in Australia, along with The Greek Studies of the University and the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria, co-organise a series of Greek community dialogues about current key-issues regarding the...

Human Rights Watch, a leading international nongovernmental advocacy group, on Tuesday called for Greek lawmakers to strengthen legislation meant to combat racism and xenophobia. “Greece has failed countless victims of racist and xenophobic attacks by neither investigating nor prosecuting the...

In an interview early this morning, the Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis warned EOPYY doctors to end their strike or risk facing severe measures later in the week. He said that he is ready to discuss doctor’s objections,...

Many areas in Athens, Greece are without electricity today, due to the abrupt weather change and the strong winds that started Monday evening. In Piraeus, Rafina, and Lavrio in Attica, as well as in the Rio-Antirio crossing in Western Greece,...

A mother from Serbia, who lost her 13 year-old daughter a few days ago had to not only face the tragic death of her child but also a 30-days notice deportation order. After an intervention from the Greek Minister...

Greeks buried under 3 1/2 years of austerity measures said they've essentially given up on any hope life will get better and are growing more pessimistic about the economy, according to a nationwide poll by GPO for Mega TV...

In yet another sordid story of immigrants being exploited, five Greeks and two Romanians have been arrested on charges of forcing 60 Romanians brought to Greece on the promise of a job to work like slaves on a mushroom...

The 2013 ratings of 177 countries by the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International (TI) released on Dec. 3 showed that Greece is still the most corrupt country in the European Union, while Denmark is the least. The ranking is based on...

    The British auction house Bonhams seems to be withstanding the pressure and holding onto its market share, despite the crisis. The first Greek sale in the London auction managed to find buyers for 71 percent of the lots. Turnover came...

  The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that Islamist Rebels broke into St. Thecla Orthodox Convent in Maaloula, 60km north of Damascus, taking hostage, the Mother Superior, Pelagia Sayyaf, along with a number of nuns. This break-in was accompanied...

A 51-year-old Greek woman from Melbourne, was one of the many victims of a psychic scam. During the period of seven months the woman gave a fake medium 90,000 dollars. According to the newspaper Herald Sun, the woman initially visited...

On Monday, the Greek Administrative Reform Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said that he disagrees with the statements of the Greek Minister of Finances, Yiannis Stournaras -- that Greek citizens are not paying enough taxes. As a matter of fact, Yiannis...

The Financial Times made a shocking prediction concerning Greece. While analyzing the sustainability plan of the German government that derived from the coalition between Angela Merkel with the Social Democrats. The newspaper wrote that within the next four years,...

Three climbers who had gone missing on Mount Olympus on Sunday were said to be safe and well on Monday. A search for the mountaineers had been launched on Sunday as weather conditions deteriorated and there was no answer...

Almost a month after the police evacuation of ERT  on November 7, the new Hellenic Public Radio Television is moving into the premises of ERT. The process has begun and it appears that everything is progressing without a big fuss. Pantelis...