The Thessaloniki City Council has recently moved forward with naming two city parks in honor of the late former Mayor Yiannis Boutaris and the legendary singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos.
While the tribute to Savvopoulos was widely accepted, the decision to honor...
This year's Greek wine production is showing a slight increase of 6.01 percent, according to data submitted by the Department of Vine, Wine, and Alcoholic Beverages to the European Commission.
This modest rise follows a historic 35.27 percent drop recorded...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called Thessaloniki mayor Yiannis Boutaris on Monday to wish him a speedy recovery after the 75-year-old politician was assaulted on Saturday.
The prime minister, who spoke with Boutaris early on Monday morning, told a later...
With the backing of Mayor Yiannis Boutaris, the Kemal Ataturk Museum has been inaugurated after its restoration in Thessaloniki and stands as a monument to the man under whose authority Turkey defeated Greece 89 years ago and drove it...
It was a little after 4 in the morning on August 9, when the psalm by the young imam from Xanthi, Greece, was heard from Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki, inviting all Muslims living or visiting as tourists the city...
French-German channel ARTE is going to show Greek films and documentaries in a 24-hour special.
On Aug. 15, from early in the morning until after midnight, ARTE will travel the German-speaking viewers (Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and other European countries) in...
The Greek government has identified 4,200 workers, mostly teachers, school janitors, crossing guards and municipal police officers who will be the first to be fired if other positions can’t be found for them.
They will be put into a so-called...
Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris isn't backing down from giving permission to a group of students from the Muslim School of Komotini, in northern Greece, to visit and pray in Thessaloniki’s New (Yeni) Mosque – for the first time in...
Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, a former sprinter who studied medicine, earning him the nickname "The Flying Doctor," before becoming Mayor of Thessaloniki from 1999-2010, was found guilty by a court there on Feb. 26 of stealing almost 18 million euros ($23.56...
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Athens on Jan. 12 against a Canadian gold mining project in the northern region of Halkidiki that opponent said would cause irreversible damage to the local environment but which supporters said would help the...
