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With Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras touting a "success story" for his government, and as he was about to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House on Aug. 8, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) reported unemployment has...

France's First Lady Valerie Trierweiler, who is the partner of President Francois Hollande, has left Greece after an extensive vacation but the French media are buzzing about it. Trierweiler, a political journalist, spent her holidays with her three sons from...

Crisis is a Greek word is the name of an initiative that Greek designers have undertaken to illustrate a crushing economic downfall in their country and they're exporting the idea to the Taiwan Design Expo in Taipei this September. Fifty...

The wave of applications from Russian citizens for a visa that will enable then to visit Greece for holidays is ever increasing. Indeed, there was a day in July that broke all previous records and during which 11,500 visas...

A few hours before the Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, enters the White House to meet with the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, US Vice President Joe Biden expressed the support that the Greek PM...

As long as Cyprus country is ruled by a corrupt politicocracy and governed by morally impoverished politicians nothing good will come out of it; the primary reason the Republic has so far bitterly failed its citizens. Cyprus has become the...

After the strong earthquake that struck on August 7 at 12:06 pm in Amphicleia, in the prefecture of Phocis, estimated at 5.3 Richter, a new seismic tremor of 4.7 Richter hit the same focal area in Amphicleia. Residents are...

While Greece is enjoying a record tourist season, one sector taking a big hit is the cities with therapeutic spas that are frequented mainly by people needing health care benefits and the elderly, many of whom can't afford to...

Greek tax agents investigating businesses for tax evasion have arrested a 59-year-old Turkish businessman on the island of Lesbos and charged him with failing to pay 7 million euros ($9.33 million) in taxes. The man, whose name was not released,...

The construction of the new building of the Institute of Geodynamics of the National Observatory of Athens is integrated in the Attica Regional Operational Programme (ROP). The budget is estimated at €5.7 million and the construction is estimated to be...

Noted Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis now has another honor: a major road in the Peloponnesian city of Tripoli will bear his name. It is a section of the newly-constructed highway of the new section of the suburban road of...

Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed, but this could be the strangest one yet: the New Democracy (ND) Conservatives and their bitter enemy, the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). That's the idea of SYRIZA outspoken MP Petros...

The 23-year-old New Zealand professional football player of Greek descent, Kosta Barbarouses, who played for Panathinaikos last year, signed a three-year year deal on Aug. 7 at Melbourne Victory to play for Ange Postecoglou's side. Apparently, Barbarouses returned to his...

Philosophers from around the world gathered at the place where their practice really had its roots - Plato's Academy - in an Athens neighborhood as part of a series of events for the 23d World Philosophy Congress which is...

With tax inspectors and investigators from the Greek financial crimes squad SDOE stepping up checks of businesses that don't issue receipts or pay taxes, a crowd of some 200 people at a religious celebration in the village of Archanes...