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Migration Minister Criticizes Visegrad Four for Demanding Border Closures
Alternate Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas criticized on Tuesday the countries of the Visegrad Group – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – for insisting that borders should close, saying they are affected by xenophobia and are targeting...
Europe
Greek Physicist Eleftherios Goulielmakis Excels in Germany
Greece has birthed numerous well-known scientists, however, due to its current situation the country is not able to support them in their careers, forcing most of them to move to other countries, noted Greek physicist Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis, researcher...
Greece
Greek PM Says Involvement of NATO in Aegean For Monitoring of Refugees Should Be Confined to Turkish Territorial Waters
Germany and Turkey agreed the other day to cooperate in order to prevent the flow of Syrian refugees from reaching Europe.
Meeting in Ankara, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also discussed ways to help Syrians...
Culture
Europe’s Best Baker: 23 and Greek
Even though he's only 23 years old, Stavros Evaggelou is Europe's best baker. In a recent competition for young bakers in Germany, he won the first award in four out of the six categories, which included the main theme...
Greece
Europe Gives Greece 6 Weeks to Stop Migrant Flow
Europe is about to warn Greece that it has six weeks to stop migrants crossing from Turkey or it will be forced out of the Schengen zone for two years, says a London Times report.
Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sweden and...
Culture
Hellas Filmbox Berlin Ends with Great Success
Hundreds of film lovers, Greek directors and journalists flooded the historic Babylon cinema in east Berlin for the four-day Hellas Filmbox Berlin film festival that ended on Sunday.
The event was hosted by the German-Greek Cultural Association, that was founded...
Greece
Crossing Point at Idomeni Opened for Refugees with Final Destination Germany or Austria
The crossing point for refugees at Idomeni, Greece, opened a few minutes ago. Fyrom's authorities are allowing the crossing of refugees with documents stating clearly that the country of their final destination is Austria or Germany.
The authorities said that...
Greece
Gauck: Greece Can Depend on Germany for European Solidarity
Greece can depend on European solidarity, German President Joachim Gauck said after his meeting on Monday with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos, who is visiting Germany.
"As presidents we want, on our level, to stabilize the long friendship between Germans...
Greece
President Pavlopoulos Heads to Berlin for Meetings with Merkel and Draghi
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos will pay a two-day visit Berlin on Monday following an invitation by the German President Joachim Gauck, during which he will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
According to a German government spokesperson, Pavlopoulos and Merkel will...
Economy
Germany and IMF Pile Pressure on Greece to Adopt Tougher Pension Rules
Germany and the IMF appear to be unhappy with the Greek government’s pension reform plan, but details are still fuzzy.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had been asked by Greece’s international creditors at the height of the crisis last summer...