Greek News

The local community of Mytilene, capital of the island of Lesbos in the North Aegean, is shocked after the news of the suicide of a 20-year-old man, according to lesvosnews.gr. The young man was found dead inside the cemetery yard...

Silvan Shalom, Israeli Minister of Energy and Water Resources, characterized the signing of the cooperation memorandum on energy and water resources between Israel, Cyprus and Greece as a fact of “historical significance”. The memorandum will be signed on Aug. 8...

A series of events that will last for a whole month are scheduled to be held in Brussels by the Cretan Association of Belgium with the participation of the municipality of Heraklion and the local committee of Friends of...

An interview by main opposition ΄Radical Left Coalition΄ (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras to the Russia 24 television channel on Tuesday, in which he underlined the risk to Europe from harsh austerity and rising neo-Nazism and fascism, was sharply criticised...

According to a recent announcement made by the Canadian Ambassador Robert Peck, on September 16, the first Canada-Greece/Cyprus University Partnership Forum will take place in the city of Athens. According to the announcement, up to eight Canadian universities will be...

At the end of August, a joint fundraiser for a medical and pharmaceutical aid campaign for the most vulnerable citizens of Greece will be completed. The charity fundraiser is organized by the organization Greek Ambassadors and the Greek Orthodox...

On August 7 an earthquake struck at 12:06 p.m in Amphicleia, in the prefecture of Phocis, estimated at 5.3 Richter, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Institute. According to preliminary data the epicenter is located 10 km. southeast of Lamia and...

Beginning an eight-day visit to the United States, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will start on Aug. 7 with a meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry, a day before sitting down with President Barack Obama to talk about...

According to Deutsche Welle’s internet page, Marcel Fratzscher, president of the Berlin based economic research institute DIW, considers a new restructuring of the Greek debt to be only a matter of time. As stated by the same source, in his...

The correspondent in Athens for the British newspaper Guardian, Helena Smith, wrote an extended article on the Greek food crisis. Frontline Charities report that up to 90% of families in the poorest neighborhoods rely on food banks and soup...

With a record tourist season in swing in Greece comes the good news that Athens is the sixth-cheapest European capital concerning the average price of a hotel room, according to the online hotel search engine Trivago. The figures show that...

In October 2013, a series of actions will start being implemented in the Municipality of Grevena, a mainly mountainous and agricultural area located within the administrative region of Western Macedonia, Greece, for two years, in the framework of the...

Greece's record-breaking tourist season got a big bump in June when the first hordes of visitors started coming in droves in and the trend is continuing, officials said. According to preliminary aggregated data for July released today by the K,...

Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said preliminary investigations have found that nearly half the dozens of fires sweeping Greece and its islands were arson, resurrecting fears that the lands are being burned so they can be developed. Despite a perennial...

The Greek State generated approximately 812.5 million euros ($1.081 billion) from issuing six-month treasury bills, as reported by the Public Debt Management Agency (ODDIH). The rate of these bills so far remains the same as the previous treasury bills, which...