France

An average of 15.5 million tourists visits Greece each year and spends an average of 627 euros each, according to a study carried out by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The same study mentions that 83 million...

“Thessaloniki is the only, the most “byzantine city” in the whole Europe. Maybe even in the whole world. The only “city-byzantine museum” which still affords a diachronic element of the Byzantium in all its periods (first and late byzantine...

Vitalia, the second largest private hospital group in France with forty-seven healthcare facilities throughout the country, offers employment opportunities to Greek doctors of every specialty. A number of Greek doctors already work in the group’s clinics and declare to be...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which is based in Strasbourg, France, condemned Greece for violating the European Convention on Human Rights provisions about the right to education. The case, Lavida and Others v. Greece concerning, according to the...

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Feb. 28 that Greece and France would sign a defence collaboration agreement, following reports that Athens would borrow navy frigates from Paris, according to Agence-France-Presse. "This (broader) agreement will further include...

After a rough 2012 when tourists, scared off by political and social unrest and images of protests, strike and riots stayed away in droves, 2013 is shaping up to be a rebound year with more than a million more...

Dexia, a Franco-Belgian bank, will receive another stimulus package from Belgium and France, due to heavy losses during the previous term. The extra funding is estimated at 5.5 billion euros ($7 billion) and is only one of many stimulus...

The French elections were eagerly awaited as a means to unity and hope. But while Hollande was winning the election and gathering the entire capital to the iconically republican Place de la Bastille, his prelude to change changed without his...

In comparison to 2008, the percentage of the people living on the poverty line has increased by 13.5 % in 2009. According to this new research coming from the French Institute of Statistics, 8.2 million people are considered to be...