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The annual EU Education and Training Monitor for 2019 was published by the European Commission on Thursday, revealing some very interesting results about the situation of education across the Union and of course in Greece. According to this year's report,...

Natasha Bertaud, deputy chief spokesperson of the European Commission, said on Monday morning that the EU is ready to mobilize anything it can to assist Greece to confront the recent massive increases of illegal immigration onto its soil. All the...

The European Commission issued a statement on Thursday morning in which it announced that the executive of the Union has approved Greece's plan for protecting the primary residence of Greek citizens from foreclosure. The statement notes that the Greek plan...

When it was announced on Tuesday that Greece will be among the few EU member states holding one of the Vice Presidencies of the next European Commission, nearly everyone across Greece's political spectrum was pleased. The appointment marks the first...

Greece's Margaritis Schinas will become the next Vice President of the European Commission, with responsibility for the portfolio called ''Protecting the European Way of Life,'' it was announced on Tuesday. According to the statement, which was released by Ursula von...

Speculation over the specific portfolio which will be taken on by Greece's next European Commissioner Margaritis Schinas has intensified over the last several days, with conflicting information coming out of Brussels. According to information published recently by the Cypriot News Agency,...

According to the latest data published by the European Commission on Thursday, the nation of Greece lost €7.4 billion in revenues from Value-Added Tax (VAT) that was not collected during 2017. The extent of the practice of tax evasion across...

The European Commission issued a statement on Wednesday in which it calls on all 513 million EU citizens to prepare for the upcoming UK exit from the EU and its implications in their everyday lives. The statement, titled ''Final Commission...

The European Commission issued a statement on Tuesday on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of Greece officially exiting its bailout programs after its eight-year-long financial crisis. ''Today marks one year since Greece successfully concluded its European Stability Mechanism (ESM)...

Beer in Greece is among the most expensive products in the European Union because of high excise tax and a 24 percent value-added tax. According to the current European Commission Directive, each Member State is required to impose a minimum...