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Throwing cold water on Greece's expectations of having a primary surplus by the end of the year - not including interest, some military expenditures, social security, municipal budgets and the cost of running state enterprises, which otherwise would show...

According to a decision of its Senate, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is suspending all of its operations. The relevant announcement goes as follows: “The Senate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the extraordinary meeting of...

The 29th edition of the Ayia Napa Festival will take place from Sept 27-29 in Ayia Napa, a resort at the far eastern end of the southern coast of Cyprus. In recent years, it has become less known as...

The spectacular cruise ship, Costa Pacifica, carries 3,800 tourists – It arrived from Istanbul on September 23 and ever since has caught the eyes of the residents of Thessaloniki... Costa Pacifica arrived at Thessaloniki port at 08.00 a.m. from Istanbul and...

Two senior officers of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) submitted their resignations on Sept. 23 amidst an investigation into whether there was any dereliction of duty over why the force did not arrest members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party...

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks with a decision that was published in the Government Gazette (the official journal of the Government of Greece) and at diavgeia.gov.gr (a site that contains every government decision) put an end to...

According to photographic documents, the paramilitary groups of the Golden Dawn extreme far-right party are being objected to tough tests. According to the Ethnos news report, young men dressed in camouflage uniforms, hooded full face and military knives in their...

Greece will spend no more than 50 million euros to host the six-month rotating European Union presidency, which it will assume in January, Parliament was told. Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Kourkoulos told the House's European affairs committee that the government...

On the evening of September 23, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, will host a reception in honor of the heads of the delegations for the UN General Assembly. Foreign Minister of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos, will be...

In the Milan Fashion Week, that took place in Milan on September 22, the fashion duo Dolce&Gabbana presented their new collection for summer and spring 2014. The fashion duo looked back to the ancient past of Domenico Dolce’s native land,...

After soaring as high as 12 percent and more in polls, support for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party dropped 2.5 percent in the immediate aftermath of the killing of an anti-fascist on Sept. 18, for which a party member...

According to a survey realized by the Hotels.com website based on a worldwide sample of 27,000 travelers, Greece ranks among the world’s top 10 most hospitable tourism destinations. As daily Kathimerini reports, according to the website, Greece is placed alongside...

Children playing in Greece have found a bag containing 43,000 euros ($58,000) hidden by an elderly woman in a derelict building fearing the crisis-hit country's banks were unsafe. While playing near a square in the northwestern city of Ioannina on...

The three Greek candidates in the Sept 22 German federal elections failed to be elected at the Bunderstag. They were candidates from three different parties that all saw their percentages drop because of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU)’s electoral...

Hundreds of striking Greek city workers (POE-OTA) are marching through Athens to protest public sector job cuts that the government must make to continue receiving international bailout funds. About 500 protesters, many wearing black, marched Monday behind a hearse bearing...