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A survey conducted by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) assessed the performance of EU countries in terms of foreign policy during 2013. Greece has been characterized as a “slacker” in foreign policy mainly due to its limited...

The Greek public television legacy is once more available via the website hprt-archives.gr. Thousands of digitized records, with full documentation of the Greek Public Television archive manages to capture the history and evolution of Greece from the late '60s until...

The European Commission has undertaken the initiative to combat tax discrimination affecting the mobility of EU citizens. Specifically, each member-state’s tax provisions will be scrutinized in order to ensure that they do not contain any form of discrimination against EU...

Georgios Chatzimarkakis (born 21 April 1966 in Duisburg) is a German politician of Greek descent, Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe). Chatzimarkakis wants to create a pro-European Union Citizens’ Movement that will...

Could it ever be possible for a beetroot to turn upside down the world of design and to gain the respect of the European Union? In fact, it is! Beetroot creative design group from Thessaloniki, Greece, was selected from among...

A new poll carried out by Greek Statistical Service MRB Hellas for Greek news-portal newsit.gr reveals that the Greek people have faith in the judicial system and want to stay in the eurozone. The results of the poll indicate that...

Greece recorded a deflation of -1.8% in December, according to data published today by Eurostat in Brussels. The average inflation rate in the Eurozone fell to 0.8% in December compared to 0.9% in November, while inflation in the EU remained...

According to Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), the European Commission (EC) believes that some sectors of the German social system are not complying with the law. Germany should include unemployed immigrants to its social policy of unemployment benefits and immigrants should...

The lawyer for convicted November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros, who walked away from a furlough on Jan. 6, said he doesn't know where his client is but said he was right to flee from justice. “I 've had no contact...

Eurozone unemployment remained at 12.1% in November, according to figures published by Eurostat today. In the EU-28, unemployment also remained stable at 10.9%. In November there were 26.553 million unemployed in the EU-28, an increase of 19,000 compared to October, and...