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Greece relies on tourism for its economy and must protect its beaches through a policy directly linked to managing garbage and household waste, head of the European Commission office in Greece Panos Karvounis said on Thursday, during a one-day...

EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici referred to Monday’s Eurogroup meeting and spoke of balanced decisions that allow the start of the technical processing of the proposals with the Greek authorities. Arriving at the ECOFIN meeting, he...

The Turkish-Cypriot community objected to halloumi cheese protected designation of origin (PDO) status and claims a separate production control mechanism in the Turkish-occupied territories. Cyprus first made an application to secure PDO status for halloumi cheese in July 2014. Halloumi is...

Greece and Cyprus could play the “bridge role” between the EU and a country such as Russia, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told Russian foreign-language news agency Sputnik in an interview. “We’ve never waged wars against each other, there have...

The revocation of a Notam by Turkey, which designated an area in the Aegean Sea as an area for military exercises and as a firing range starting Monday and until December 31, was revoked following Greek demarches to the...

The Greek Foreign Ministry sent out a notice to international bodies protesting Turkey's move to reserve a large part of Greek airspace for military maneuvers until the end of the year. On Friday February 27, Turkey issued a notam requesting to...

The geopolitical changes in the Eastern Mediterranean have become like shifting sand; land is gained and lands are lost; souls vanquish and lives perish at each day’s passing. With the Assad "regime change” and Jihad atrocities in Syria and...

The government not only did not table a law to abolish all Memoranda and their related laws to Parliament, but moved to a new agreement with the Troika of the country's creditors, Greek Communist Party (KKE) leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas...

The Bundestag (Germany's Federal Parliament) will vote on the extension of Greece's loan agreement four-month extension on Friday, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary representative Michael Grosse-Broemer announced earlier today. Grosse-Broemer appeared confident that the voting will result to a "widespread...

The EU considers the list of reforms submitted by Greece to be "sufficient" and satisfactory, sources say. This comes shortly after the Commission reported it had received Greece's reform "on time." During the weekend, the Greek authorities had a constructive exchange...