Greek News

The story of a four-year-old Greek-Australian boy, who suffers from medulloblastoma, a rare form of cancer, managed to move a big part of the Greek-Australian community. Little Loukas Strouzas was diagnosed with the disease two years ago. From the first...

The Greek Parliament, controlled by the ruling coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservatives and his partner, the PASOK Socialists, approved a bill that would let the administration proceed to overhaul high schools and transfer, suspend...

Undaunted by the removal of graffiti which adorns many buildings in Athens, street artists promptly spray-painted the walls again almost the moment their work was removed and vowed to continue taking over the city. City officials last month went on...

Impressive is the title of the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet on the imminent reopening of the Greek primary school on the island of Imvros. Hürriyet's headline "Kali Arhi" in Greek, is translated into the equivalent Turkish expression. The Turkish newspaper writes that...

With Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras insisting the country will be on the road to recovery and return to the markets next year, a European Central Bank Governing Council Member said a third bailout - and possibly a fourth...

Felony Appeals Court prosecutor Georgia Adilini said on Sept. 11 during the trial of former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos on money laundering and corruption charges that he was a serial bribe taker who repeatedly accepted graft during his job. Adilini...

A 38-year-old man passed a noose around his neck and committed suicide in his house, in the region Kardamitsia, Ioannina. According to epirusgate, at dawn, his parents went inside their son's house where they found him hanging. Their screams woke...

The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) has launched a public tender for investors to submit an expression of interest for four thermal springs in the regional unit of Fthiotida. According to TAIPED, as Greek Travel Pages (GTP) website reports,...

The economic situation of the insurance system shows a rapid deterioration, with a dramatic decline of revenues and a sharp increase of overdue debts. These developments will inevitably lead to new cuts, firstly in the supplementary pensions with lump-sum payments...

On September 10, the Health Ministry and the industry representatives signed an agreement for distributing free medicine to the poor and uninsured, in order to create a network of free medicine distributors, which will operate along similar lines to...

According to ipeirotika.gr, two people lost their lives and another three were injured, after a road accident involving two trucks and a private car, which occurred in the region between Kaneta and the village Terovo. According to pamepreveza.gr, the car...

The teaching of Greek in Australia was the main subject of the lecture presented by the academic Anna Hatzinikolaou on September 6, as part of the Greek History and Culture Seminar, offered by the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne...

A new excavation in the Xirokambi area of Aghios Vassilios west of Sparta, in the Peloponnese, Greece, has revealed a richness of Mycenean artefacts in the area, including the remains of a palace, Linear B tablets, fragments of wall...

Main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras will will speak at an open rally in the White Tower (Lefkos Pyrgos) square in Thessaloniki on Friday at 7.30 pm. Tsipras will pay a three-day visit to Thessaloniki in the...

The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, characterized the financial changes and reforms made over the last three years in Greece as really impressive. At the beginning of his speech before the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg,...