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Official guests from the Bavarian community and members of the Greek community attended the celebration that took place at the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany (Griech.-Orthodoxe Metropolie von Deutschland). The event was organized to celebrate the fifty years from...

A petrified trunk of a conifer tree from China, which is estimated to date back to the Jurassic geological period (that extends from 159 to 200 million years ago), is permanently exhibited at the special exhibition section The Evolution...

The well-known travel website TripAdvisor.com, based on the votes it collected by travelers who visited Greek beaches in 2013, presented the top 10 of the most beautiful  beaches in the country. Elafonisos, a small Greek island between the Peloponnese and...

Despite big tax hikes that went along with big pay cuts and slashed pensions, expected tax revenues in Greece are far off the mark as austerity-crushed Greeks continue to cut back spending, causing a shortfall of 815 million euros...

While Greek police have yet to capture any suspects in what is believed to be an anarchist-led firebombing of a downtown Athens branch of the Marfin Bank on May 5, 2010 during austerity protests, leaving three people - including...

The US press has published articles on the visit of the US Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, to Greece on July 21. The articles said that the USA support Greece and that the US financial crisis depends on developments in...

The famous Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has been cruising for the last few days the Greek islands on his luxury yacht Main, and since the morning of July 22 has been enjoying his holidays in Chania, Crete. Armani, who...

A large fire that broke out July 21 in a remote spot on the island of Samos was said be contained by firefighters who had to battle heavy winds that ripped the flames furiously across the landscape. Fire crews had...

On July 21, the Financial Times published an article about Greece entitled,  A Grexit is starting to look more feasible for Athens-For Greece to reform and not default makes sense only from Berlin’s perspective. In this article, Wolfgang Münchau describes...

Figures from the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat showed that Greece's public debt rose to 160.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of the year, an indicator that the economy is not getting better as...

The administrations of major Greek banks are prompted by the heads of the Troika to proceed to a dramatic shrinkage of the staff serving in the Greek banking sector. As it was revealed on July 22 by the Greek newspaper...

Moving quickly to follow the orders of international lenders to cut the public workforce, Greece has put 2,000 teachers in the so-called mobility scheme in which they will be involuntarily transferred or paid 75 percent of their already-reduced salary...

ANSA, (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata), the leading wire service in Italy and one of the leaders among world news agencies, in its telegraph to Athens noted that, “Τhere are positive messages for the work of Samaras' government." In particular, ANSA’s...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hope to keep down social unrest is going unheeded as workers at public hospitals, health centers, welfare structures and the ambulance service will strike for 24 hours on July 24, leaving only a skeleton...

The online edition of the German news magazine raises the old story of the fraudulent claims for blindness on the island of Kalymnos in Greece. “Suddenly, hundreds of supposedly blind can see again: Another blatant fraud case in the welfare...