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The Greek parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a motion which demands that Germany pay more than 300 billion euros in reparations for World War I and World War II. A large majority of Greek lawmakers supported giving...

Two 23-year old German nationals were sentenced by a court in Chania, Crete on Monday for taking down the Greek flag down from a flagpole and raising the German flag in its place. The incident happened several days ago on the...

A more than 20-year-old dispute between the Greek state and the local Council of Munich,  Germany is set to end with the demolition of the unfinished Greek school, which is currently not much more than a shell. The German newspaper...

Piraeus Bank has entered into a credit agreement with Berliner Sparkasse to help Greek companies which have a business relationship with German enterprises in the greater Berlin area. Berliner Sparkasse is one of the largest savings banks in Germany, and Piraeus...

The German Finance Ministry is believed to be opposed to Greece's plans to repay the country's loans to the IMF earlier than stipulated, the German paper Handelsblatt reported on Friday. The Greek Finance Ministry is planning to repay a sum of €3.8...

A fifteen-year-old Greek boy amazed judges with with his breathtaking singing at the German version of the popular talent show "The Voice" last week. Lazaros (who goes by just one name), sang Nicki Minaj's "Grand Piano," causing the first judge...

By Aspasia Zontanou, Düsseldorf Award-winning director Dimos Abdeliodis presented his film "The Four Seasons of The Law” (“I Earini Synaxis Ton Agrofylakon”) last Thursday at the at the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf's own movie theater "Black Box", Germany. The director followed that up...

A German-based Greek start-up company founded by Greek entrepreneur Kostas Tzoumas was bought by the gigantic Chinese company Alibaba earlier this month for approximately €90 million. The start-up, named ''Data Artisans'', founded in 2014 by the Greek graduate of Athens’...

Greek film director Marianna Economou will participate in this year’s Culinary Cinema of Berlinale, part of the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. This special division of the Festival focuses on films which are ''food for thought''. Her film is titled...

  Despoina Petousi, a young Greek scientist based in Germany who works on devices which enable high-speed internet, recently won the prestigious “Bertha Benz Prize” for 2018 for her groundbreaking research. The prize is aimed specifically at young female doctorate-level engineers who...