Thessaloniki

Citigroup Inc is to shut almost half its branch network in Greece, where retail banking activity has dried up because of the country's debt crisis. Citi, the last major international bank with a countrywide presence in Greece, will cut its...

A professor and group of students at Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University trying to pick up rubbish accumulating during a two-month work stoppage by municipal workers were jeered and then attacked by protesters who accused them of trying to interfere with...

Greeks took to the streets by the tens of thousands on Nov. 17 to commemorate the 39th anniversary of a deadly student revolt against the country's former dictatorship which months later toppled the American-backed ruling military junta. The march occurred...

Protesters have broken into a conference center and clashed with police in northern Greece after gathering to demonstrate against the presence of a German government official. The protesting municipal workers pushed and threw coffee on a German diplomat who arrived...

Greek President Karolos Papoulias said on Oct. 28 - Oxi Day - that he believes the debt-ridden country will overcome the current economic crisis which threatens it with chaotic default, although he didn't say how, and as the economy...

The annual military parade held on October 28 in Thessaloniki to mark Greece's entry into the Second World War will be organized at a substantially reduced cost, daily Kathimerini reports. The National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) has brought the cost...

Thessaloniki Mayor Giannis Boutaris was chosen as the world's best mayor for the month of October in an online poll of City Mayors.com, a website that had ranked previously New York’s and London’s mayors the best for other months. “If...

Thessaloniki will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its liberation and incorporation into Greece with a three-day international symposium and an historical exhibition open to the locals and visitors of the Northern port city. Entitled Thessaloniki: A City in Transition, 1912-2012,...

As I was heading to the 7th Gymnasio-Lykeio of Thessaloniki, one of the occupied schools of the city, I was under the impression that that I was going to meet some students who didn't know exactly what they were...

With so many Greeks throwing up their hands in despair at a crushing economic crisis and harsh austerity measures, two young entrepreneurs, Padelis Zarkos and Stelios Plakidis, have shown there is still ingenuity in the country. The two have invented...