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Jack Lew: Greece' s Issue Must be Solved As Soon As Possible

US Finance Minister, Jack Lew requested from the IMF, the European Institutions and Greece, to complete the program evaluation and find a reasonable solution to the restructuring of the country's debt, after meeting with Greek Finance Minister, Euclid Tsakalotos. The Greek...

Greek Conductor Teodor Currentzis Honored With KAIROS Prize

Teodor Currentzis, a Greek conductor who has founded his own orchestra in Siberia and has given the Opera in Perm an international status, is this year's laureate of the KAIROS prize. Since 2007, the KAIROS Prize is awarded to European artists and scientists...

EU Commissioner Avramopoulos Asks for Improvement of Revised Dublin Mechanism

It is time that the chaotic, illegal and dangerous migration flows are replaced with safe transit corridors, EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos on Tuesday said at the European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg. Avramopoulos acknowledged the...

Admiration for the Archaic Kore in Russia

The Archaic Kore 670 from the Acropolis Museum was treated as a unique and emblematic work of art by the Russian audience, which is being presented in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The exceptionally preserved Kore, which dates...

Two Greek Monuments Win European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award 2016

The Byzantine Church of St. Peter in Kastania, Mani and the traditional watermill in Agios Germanos, Prespes, are among the winners of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award 2016. The two monuments from Greece, along with 28...

Turkey on Edge as Migrants Return

When the first boatload of deported migrants arrived Monday at the Turkish port of Dikili, a small group of Turkish human rights activists turned up to welcome them. Turkey is expecting to receive another shipment of 200 migrants deported from...

Commission Unveils Plans to Overhaul Asylum System and Migration Policy

  The European Commission announced a series of measures to change the bloc's asylum process and restructure the European Union's migration policies. In a joint press conference after the meeting, Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said the EU proposes two alternative solutions...

Athos: The Holy Mountain Goes to Moscow

The photo and engraving exhibition "Athos:The Holy Mountain," which is taking place for the 1000-year-old presence of Russians on the Holy Mountain in addition to the Common year of Greece-Russia, opened in the hall of the Russian Assembly (Duma)...

Wikileaks: IMF Threatens to Leave Troika Ahead of Greek 'Disaster'

Wikileaks has revealed a conversation between the two top IMF officials in charge of the Greek debt crisis, Poul Thomsen, head of the IMF’s European department, and Delia Velculescu, IMF mission chief for Greece. The details of the conversation,...

Europe Prepares to Deport Migrants

On Monday, the European Union and Greece are scheduled to begin sending migrants, including Syrians, from the Greek Isles to Turkey under a deal reached two weeks ago between the Turkish government and the EU. The agreement aims to ease...