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Protesting the oncoming firings of municipal workers, 25 of the 38 Mayors in Central Macedonia co-signed a joint letter, in which they submitted their resignations from office. The letter was addressed to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the Deputy Prime Minister...

Eurozone finance ministry officials will hold another conference call on July 26 to decide whether Greece can get its next 4 billion euros ($5.27 billion aid payment, two European officials said, although other reports indicated that the money would...

The Glendi Festival, the annual Greek weekend event of the South Australian community, will be held this year at its original home at Thebarton Oval, as it was announced by the West Torrens Council. The Glendi Greek Festival (Glendi is...

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published Gruppe in Zurich, reported in an article on Greek tourism dthat “Greek tourism alone is not enough to solve the problems” of the debt-crushed country. “Even though Greece receives more...

With Greece enjoying what looks to be a record tourist season, one of the most important sources is Russian visitors who are flocking to the country in droves.  The Consulate General of Greece in Moscow, Ioannis Plotas told the...

For the second time in two months, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has backed down from Athens Mayor George Kaminis who banned them from conducting another Greeks-only food handout and soup kitchen in a public square in the city...

The investigation into the so-called Lagarde List of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC has reportedly found that at least 20 top government officials are hiding assets of as much as 3 million...

On July 25, the European Commission will announce the assessment report of the Greek program which is expected to contain the reference to lift the current ban on auctioning primary residence from January 1, 2014. Minister of Development, Kostis Hatzidakis,...

Education Minister, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, signed the final decision concerning the closure and merger of elementary schools and preschools all around Greece. From September on, 118 elementary schools and preschools will be deleted from the school map of Greece. In particular,...

A nineteen-year-old British who is allegedly the perpetrator of the murder of his compatriot peer on July 23 in Malia, Crete, was led to the prosecutor shortly before 12:00. Along with him the other 18 young men who were...

Inspections carried out by Greece's Financial Crime Squad in tourist areas has found that resorts aren't handing out receipts as required and those in Evia are ducking 100 percent of their tax obligations. That comes as the Value Added Tax...

Nikos Mamagakis (born in Rethymno, Crete, in 1929), one of the most important composers of contemporary Greek music with a great work behind, died early in the morning of July 24.  He suffered from cancer and was hospitalized in...

Contradicting reports that contradicted other reports that international loans to Greece would be delayed because of reservations over the slow pace of reforms, the German Ministry of Finance said it expects the monies to be released on time, spokesman...

FYROM’s Ministry of Interior Affairs, mentioned that lately the number of immigrants who entered illegally the country through Greece, in order to reach the countries of Central and Western Europe, has significantly increased. “Unfortunately the cooperation with Greece is not...

"Greek Singer Mocks Schaeuble." That was the headline of a story in the German newspaper Bild which said it referred to a party in Mykonos where a singer named Antonis Remos made fun of the wheelchair-bound German Finance Minister...