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As Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is touting what he called the country's "success story" in edging toward recovery from a crushing economic crisis, it hasn't helped reduce unemployment, which hit a record 26.8 percent in March. The figure was...

According to a survey carried out by the Labor Institute of G.S.E.E, about 1,5 million workers in Greece, both Greeks and foreigners, are working under the regime of partial or entirely uninsured labor. The data show that the contribution evasion...

A communication on the June 5 incident with the Greek slave boat off  the island of Symi was released by the Coast Guard, but mentioned nothing about the Turkish patrol opening fire against the catamaran. According to the Coast's press...

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy will be at the Cine Thisio on June 11 for the premiere of, Before Midnight. The film, directed by Richard Linklater, will open the 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival. Don’t forget that Cine Thisio on...

Lately, a series of attacks against bus drivers and passengers in Attica have been recorded, as well as vehicle damages. The bus drivers in Attica are afraid for their safety and their passengers’ too, and are asking for security...

With his government immobilized over how to deal with the rising neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party accused of attacks on immigrants and with its strong anti-Semitic, anti-gay, ultra-religious stance, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a Finnish newspaper during his...

Construction of a multipolar museum in Vergina was set to start on June 6 but it won't be finished until 2015, the head of 17th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities  Angeliki Kottaridou said at a news conference. The first...

Activists from Greece traveled more than 7,500 kilometers to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to protest in front of the Eldorado Gold Corporation's headquarters. The Greek mine opponents read a letter addressed to the company’s president presenting the social and...

Some 95 immigrants were detained on the island of Lesbos, which is close to Turkey, and now a preferred landing spot because of a fence built along the Turkish border. The immigrants arrived at the port of Mytilini, capital...

Public Order and Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Dendias met on June 5 with the  ambassadors of the European Union to Greece, the ambassadors of Norway and Switzerland, and a representative of the European Commission Representation in Greece. to talk...

The Austrian newspaper Oberosterreichische Nachrichten published a tribute to western Greece under the title The Virgin Greece, and wrote of a tour that starts at Parga and ends at Lefkada following the “traces of mythology”. In its presentation of Parga,...

Manitoba is the first region in Canada seeking young migrants from South Europe, which is suffering from unemployment. Temporary and permanent employees from the labor market of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are those wanted to work in Manitoba. This...

Turkish authorities released the Greek student who was detained on June 6 on the allegations he was involved in provoking the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul last weekend. George Iatridis, 25, who was reportedly studying in Turkey under the...

Once a ruling heavyweight in Greek politics, as recently as 2009 when it won the elections with 44 percent of the vote, the PASOK Socialist party - down to 5 percent territory after backing austerity measures - is also...

Former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos ran the show in organizing a vast money-laundering operation to hide the trail of money stolen from defense contracts, witnesses said at his trial on corruption charges. That included offshore companies to be used...