Greek News

With envoys from international lenders in Athens checking the books before releasing more tranches in a series of rescue loans as part of a second bailout of $173 billion, the Finance Ministry said it expects to have a primary...

John Psathas, one of the top Greek composers of the Greek Diaspora, will appear in an event of the Hellenic Museum of Melbourne on September 29. The concert will be given in Melbourne, Australia, and includes musical compositions from his...

Testing the patience of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras who said they wouldn't be allowed to strike for even a single day, Greek high school teachers are continued their series of rolling strikes into a second week on Sept. 23,...

The long awaited new novel by award-winning Greek-Australian author, Christos Tsiolkas, entitled Barracuda, will be presented during a special event in Melbourne, Australia, on October 23. In Barracuda, we follow the story of a young swimmer, Danny Kelly, with the...

The Sept 22 front page of the newspaper Realnews reveals a secret report issued by the General Accounting Office of Greece concerning Berlin’s debts to Greece and the occupation loan under the title “Miss Merkel, here is the proof.” According...

A new Metron-Analysis poll for the newspaper Ethnos tis Kiriakis records a marginal difference in favor of SYRIZA which gathers a 19.8 percent in voting intention against the 19.6 percent of Samaras’s New Democracy. In voting intention, PASOK gets 4.8...

Frantic to find a way to cover a looming $11-$14 billion hole in its budget next year, the Greek government reportedly is considering using its state properties as collateral to sell bonds as a way to raise critical revenues. Finance...

In the wake of the killing of an anti-fascist and the arrest of a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, the Greek government is considering an array of ways to control the party that has been running amok...

The leading international exhibition for food products in Russia, which takes place in the center of Moscow city, World Food Moscow, this year included an exhibit of Greek agricultural products. Among the 1,400 exhibitors from 69 countries there were around...

Greece called for international creditors not to enforce further austerity measures as they began a fresh audit of the country's finances on Sunday. Monitors from the so-called "troika" of international lenders -- the EU, International Monetary Fund and European Central...

Disapproval and strong reactions have been caused by information that the Sept 22 front page of the newspaper Proto Thema will depict a photo of the 34-year old Pavlos Fyssas shortly before he left  his last breath after he...

Lead vocalist of the American Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying Tim Lambesis will stand trial on the charge of trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-wife Meggan Murphy. Unfortunately for Lambesis, the hit man he...

As a member of Golden Dawn charged with stabbing to death a 34-year-old anti-fascist after a taverna altercation was telling a court he regretted what he did, it was reported that three former members of the neo-Nazis have told...

The town of Nafplio plans to construct a waterway that will further promote tourism growth in the area, according to Nafplio mayor Dimitris Kostouros on Thursday, speaking after his meeting with a representative of the Hellenic Sea Planes, which...

By Layla Eplett* - It’s official: Greek yogurt is all the rage. As Americans demand more Greek yogurt, Greeks demand more with yogurt–the economic crisis in Greece has led to a resurgence in yogurt protests. In the past few...