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The FYROM Parliament decided on Monday to extend the "emergency" measures on its borders with Greece and Serbia until December 31, 2016, due to the refugee and migrant crisis. FYROM's Defense Minister, Joran Yolevski, highlighted that it is important to...

A decision by the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to prohibit US financial institutions from opening or maintaining a correspondent account for, or on behalf of, the Federal Bank of the Middle East (FBME) has become final,...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday chaired a meeting with government ministers and close associates to discuss the refugee issue at his offices in Parliament. On Wednesday the government is expected to table a draft law in Parliament regulating legal...

The civil servants' union federation (ADEDY), announced on Monday a 24-hour strike against the planned social security reforms which will take place on April 7. ADEDY is also calling all workers to be present at the rally that will take...

Inspectors from the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the European Stability Mechanism and the International Monetary Fund are expected to return to Athens this week following a break for Catholic Easter to continue negotiations on Greece's bailout program. Creditors ask...

The number of people who cashed in savings-based insurance policies early reached a record high in 2015, showing the decline of the insurance market in Greece, a Kathimerini report says. As disposable incomes dwindle after the onset of the economic...

An Italian television reporter found a hole in the Greece-FYROM border where migrants illegally cross to the neighboring country. After the closing of the Greece-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border, thousands of refugees and migrants are left stranded in the...

Migrant smugglers are preparing a new route to Europe that would transfer people by sailing to Italy, says Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. After the closing of the Balkan Route that refugees used to travel from Greece to central Europe...

The Turkish coastguard on Sunday stopped five boats carrying dozens of illegal migrants heading for the Greek island of Lesvos, according to an AFP report. A coastguard vessel spotted the boats about four miles off the shore of Dikili town...

An event commemorating early 20th century Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos, as well as his son and three-time Greek prime minister Sofoklis Venizelos, was held in Hania, Crete, on Sunday. Among those attending were Economy Minister George Stathakis, main opposition...