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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann claims that German deficit spending is more likely to benefit China than Greece. Growth in Greece and its subsequent financing during the fiscal adjustment period is a...

Last August, when Xi Jinping, the president of China, made an unofficial one-night stopover on the island of Rhodes while traveling to Brazil for a summit of leading emerging markets, Greece’s president and premier flew from Athens to ensure...

Greek Environment and Energy Minister Yiannis Maniatis spoke of encouraging signs that Greece has rare minerals during a meeting with Chinese representatives. Maniatis stressed that Greece is one of only five European countries which have shown signs of such rare elements. Furthermore, he...

Greece is awaiting the godsend Chinese investments, which were arranged after the recent visit of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and his meeting with his Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras. It appears, however, that several Greek entrepreneurs have decided not to...

AP - With the violence in Libya escalating to its worst level since the 2011 ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, governments from around the world are scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the country, many seeking help from nearby...

The European Commission gave the “green light” to Greece for COSCO’s new investment in Piraeus, Greece, as according to sources, the Competition Commission and the Internal Control Commission of the European Union approved a friendly settlement agreement between COSCO’s...

Following a meeting between the Greek Deputy Education Minister Alexandros Dermetzopoulos and the representative of the Comfucius institute Yang Xiuquin, it was announced that 21 volunteers from China will arrive in Greece by October in order to provide Chinese language lessons to nine Experimental Curriculum...

Meet Culture hosted its first Guqin Concert in Athens, Greece, on July 5. Another Guqin concert was also hosted by the same organization on the Greek island of Santorini on July 3. Guqin, with a history of over 3,000 years, represents China’s...

  The Chinese consortium Friedmann Pacific Asset Management (FPAM) and Shenzhen Airport reaffirmed their interest in buying a majority stake in the Athens International Airport at a meeting held on Thursday, July 3. During the meeting, attended by Development and Competitiveness Deputy...

It seems like Greece is attracting more and more Chinese tourists. Sun Yanan, officer at the visa issuing organization in Beijing, China stated that about 40,000 Chinese tourists applied for a visa in 2013. The total number of tourists travelling...