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The Troika accepts as a basic macroeconomic scenario for this year that recession will reach 4%, compared to the forecast of a 4.2% decline in the budget. Athens negotiated with a forecast for decline in the  GDP by 3.8...

Golden Dawn MP Costas Barbarousis'  former bodyguard was arrested by the police in Agrinio, as after a survey carried out at the local Golden Dawn offices, the police found a police cap, a helmet with two leg braces from...

The port authority of Skyros, the southernmost of the Greek Sporades islands, recently held meetings with companies that responded to a tender for the construction and operation of a waterway at the island's port, as Greek Travel Pages (GTP)...

The Greek-Australian actor, Paul Capsis , who is considered as one of the leaders in the field of Australian entertainment, was honored for his excellent offer in the theater, dance and music. Capsis was awarded with the first prize of...

Being squeezed by international lenders to pare the workforce by transferring, suspending or firing civil servants, Greek Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has asked for an extension to the so-called mobility scheme until the end of the year. The request...

The economic crisis that has been plaguing Greece for a long time has led many Greeks to seriously think fleeing abroad in order to find job and have a chance for a better life. However, few are those who consider...

The chef Maria Ekmekçioğlu has co-written a book that includes Greek and Turkish recipes, entitled Bir o yaka Bir bu yaka, which means This side The other side, and was released in April in Turkey. Ekmekçioğlu, who is engaged in...

A life-sized marble head of the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite was discovered by a group of archaeologists at a site called Antiochia ad Cragum (Antioch of the cliffs), on the Mediterranean coast, in southern Turkey. The sculpture of the goddess...

Greek-Canadian/American Nia Vardalos, who celebrates her 51st birthday today (Happy Birthday, Nia!), will sit down to talk Yopa! yogurt this afternoon with another Greek-Canadian, George Stroumboulopoulos. The "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star recently became the spokesperson for General Mills...

The electronic version of the German newspaper Spiegel published an article denouncing the fact that the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn political party has filed complaints against journalists in Greece. After the revelations that followed the murder of the anti-fascist hip-hop...

The return of the Parthenon Marbles was at the center of the meeting that the Minister of Culture and Sports Panos Panagiotopoulos held on Sept. 24 with the Delegate to the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon...

An important center of literature and education of the Byzantine years, which could be considered as the first Greek university, was excavated by Professor Ath. Paliouras in the location Losoudi of Asterousia, in Heraklion regional unit, at an altitude...

Even as Greece looks likely to need a third bailout and its debt has risen in the last 15 months, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, whose institution is one of the country's Troika of international lenders, said he...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation donated $1 million to the Université de Montréal (UdeM) as a contribution to the Campus Montréal campaign. The money will go to provide scholarships for university students from Greece to study at the Université de...

Titos Patrikios, one of the most renowned poets of contemporary Europe and Greece, has suffered prison sentences, violence and exile for his political and intellectual activism. Born in 1928, the poet will be receiving the prestigious international Lerici Pea...