Athens

In a recent press release, the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association (AHA), announced that hotels in Athens have been seeing their occupancy numbers decrease since last fall until February 2016. According to AHA's data, there was a steady decrease throughout...

An earthquake occurred on the island of Crete in the afternoon, mostly felt in Herakleion. The earthquake was of 4.5 magnitude on the Richter Scale, according to the Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens. The earthquake was mostly felt...

Now that borders with Greece are closing one after another, and as more refugees and migrants are being trapped in the country despite the fact that the EU-Turkey agreement has become effective for several days now, one "business sector"...

Members of the PAME trade union occupied symbolically on Tuesday morning the main premises of the Finance Ministry Building at Syntagma Square, protesting against the "new measures in Social Security, taxation and foreclosures that turn against the workers." In an...

Migrant smugglers are preparing a new route to Europe that would transfer people by sailing to Italy, says Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. After the closing of the Balkan Route that refugees used to travel from Greece to central Europe...

A group of around 20 assailants threw Molotov cocktail bombs late on Thursday night at a police station in Pangrati, a busy residential neighborhood in central Athens, Greece. According to Greek police reports no one was injured in the attack,...

The student parade for the anniversary and celebration of March 25th was concluded several minutes after noon. For another year, heavy police forces patrolled  the area, in order to carry out the parade safely and without any unexpected incidents. Before...

An anonymous caller announced that there is a bomb at Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos airport. "It will be the same as Brussels, it is not a hoax," said the man in a call to news website Zougla.gr. The call comes 24...

"The mission has been productive. Significant progress has been made on the income tax reform," according to the respective announcements of IMF and Eurogroup. "The mission made important progress on key aspects of the pension reform. Work is ongoing and...

American actress Angelina Jolie, who acts as UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador, arrived in Athens, Greece, earlier on Wednesday. Jolie is currently visiting refugees hosted at Piraeus port and is planning to visit other areas in Athens where refugees are hosted. The American...