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Half the Greek population has an account on at least one social media platform, according to a recent publication in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. Greeks spend more than 80 minutes per day on social networks. Facebook is the favorite platform...

In the most crucial meeting for the Eurozone, EU leaders are pushing even further for more austerity in Greece.  Twitter users are reacting heavily to Greece's creditors demands that many call unreasonable and undemocratic. The past hour the hashtag #ThisIsACoup (#2 hashtag...

Financial Times journalist Peter Spiegel hastened to comment on the press conference Jean-Claude Juncker gave Monday saying that it is not true what the European Commission President said about pension cuts in Greece. Through his personal Twitter account, Spiegel accuses Juncker of...

After all the fuss regarding the Greek Prime Minister’s twitter account which had not been updated, the profile photo was finally changed and the new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made his first tweet. In his first tweet Alexis Tsipras...

France’s Pierre Moscovici, EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, is expected in Athens next Monday and Tuesday (December 15-16) it was announced today. “I will be visiting Greece on Monday and Tuesday. We stand by Greece and...

FYROM’s Parliament Vice-President Antonio Milososki tweeted a picture of him and a group of climbers on Sunday, holding a flag with the Vergina Sun symbol after reaching the highest peak of Mount Olympus. Between 1991 and 1995 FYROM used the...

A 27-year-old Turkish citizen of Greek origin, Theodoros Mastikopoulo, went missing on August 25. His family and friends launched a social media campaign in order to find him. On Thursday, September 18, however, police presented the family of the 27-year-old...

Greek independent MP Nikos Nikolopoulos, who insulted Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel with a provocative Twitter message a few weeks ago, apologized for his “extreme” language and his “unusual manners.” In a letter sent to Bettel this week, Nikolopoulos, a...

A tweet by Independent MP Nikos Nikolopoulos mocking Luxembourg Democratic Party Prime Minister Xavier Bettel’s decision to take advantage of his country’s “gay marriage” law did not go unnoticed. The tweet – in Greek – referred to a Europe of...

Greek Independent MP Nikos Nikolopoulos, who is known for his outspoken views on the topic of gay marriage that he believes “bombs the family”, wrote a homophobic and offensive tweet on his Twitter account regarding the marriage of Luxembourg's...