Politics

Greek Australian Lambros Tapinos was elected Mayor for the second time. Tapinos is Mayor of Moreland in Melbourne, where thousands of Greeks live as well as people from different countries. Mr. Tapinos is the third Greek elected mayor in the...

The total compensation for Parliament Members, as determined for the year 2013, was released today by the Greek Parliament. It depends on the category in which they belong, which is determined by the region in which they are elected. According...

The execution-style murder of two members of the far-right extremist Golden Dawn party in Athens has police scrambling to find out who was responsible amid worries it could be the work of terrorists and spark a round of retaliation. Surveillance...

The situation at the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens still remains unsettled. The two historical institutions remain closed for the 11th consecutive week, holding thousands of students and their families “hostage,” due to the...

Tough talks between Greece and its international lenders slugged on as the two sides on Nov. 19 remained far apart on key issues including how to close a looming budget gap - and how big it is - putting...

The Greek Foreign Ministry reacted over an eventual converting of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Museum into a mosque, following statements from Turkish officials. The Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç especially expressed his hope to see Hagia Sophia Museum as a mosque,...

Hellenic Police is on “Red Alert” from this morning under the fear of a new armed attacked. According to some sources from the police counter-terrorism division, the attack’s target this time will be the Hellenic police. The Greek Minister...

  The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, in an interview with Bild newspaper appeared negative on the possibility of a new haircut on the Greek debt. "We had a debt reduction in late 2011 - early 2012, and that's enough," said Schaeuble who...

Financial and Economic Crime Unit (SDOE) received a list from Commissioner Horst Reichenbach, including well-known business executives and government organizations which will be examined thoroughly. A special decentralized tax audit service (KEFOMEP) intends to impose massive fines on wealthy taxpayers...

The new president of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) Joseph Caputo, expressed his displeasure for the abolition of the Ministry of Multicultural Affairs of the Tony Abbott government. Mr. Caputo said "We will ask the government...

Tossed out of the PASOK Socialists for defying orders to vote against a censure motion brought against Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, by the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA,) lawmaker Theodora...

The longest-running story in Greece - the country's painstaking negotiations with international lenders, picked up again on Nov. 18 in yet another attempt to resolve differences over a range of issues before a pending one billion euro installment is...

The Prime Minister of New South Wales, Barry O'Farrell declared that the threats of Turkey's President of Parliament are unacceptable and reprehensible. The Turkish President of Parliament, Cemil Çiçek, asked not to allow members of the state to attend the...

Two new political surveys show that the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras maintain a growing lead in one of the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and slightly behind in the other...

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek Minister of Administrative Reform, during an interview in Vima FM, talked about the 15,000 dismissals in the public sector by the end of 2014, based on the commitments of the Greek government towards the creditors. He also...