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The Greek Finance Ministry has issued a statement following a Reuters report on Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, entitled “Isolated in debt talks, Greek finance rebel gets the cold shoulder.” The article claimed that Varoufakis has become isolated from his...

An Eritrean migrant who was saved when the boat that was illegally transferring her and almost 200 more illegal migrants to Greece sank just off the coast of Rhodes, gave birth to a health boy on Thursday at Rhodes...

The liquidity problem is a "result of past settlements," stated to the Sunday edition of "Avghi" newspaper Greek government Vice President Yiannis Dragasakis, adding that the cash reserves' impasse in February and March was faced with the intensification of revenues...

The final countdown before the critical May 11 Eurogroup has already started. Meanwhile, the heavy atmosphere that Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis faced at the Eurozone Finance Ministers meeting have brought to light scenarios of snap elections or a referendum. The Greek...

Fitch Ratings said it no longer assumes that Cyprus will use the entire €10 billion of its international bailout package from two years ago. The credit ratings agency said it has affirmed Cyprus' long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default...

Deputy Defense Minister Costas Isychos represented Greece's government in the commemoration event at Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, for the 100-year anniversary of the ANZAC landing. Isychos, who was accompanied by the Ambassador of Greece to Ankara Kyriakos Loukakis, laid a wreath to...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias set the dilemma "Do they want to support us to have growth... or do they decide to have Greece struggle, to punish Greece, and create an example of what happens to a country...

By Aspasia Zontanou For the first time in the history of Düsseldorf, the Marathon flame travelled from Athens on Friday, April 24, to the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, protected in a special box. Düsseldorf Mayor Thomas Geisel and Greek...

The first ancient Greek colonies appeared in the area of modern Ukraine in the 6th century, near the Black Sea coast and the Crimean peninsula. In the region of Mariupol there are 29 Greek villages and approximately 150,000 residents of Greek...

New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras addressed on Saturday a party meeting on the migration issue at the port city of Patras, Greece. The former prime minister noted that the migration problem is a reason for which an agreement...