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Greece and Cyprus might be better off out of the European common currency bloc, a Harvard Business Review report said. According to the writer, Loizos Heracleous, long-term relief for the troubled Greek economy is very unlikely, if the current situation...

Famous Greek film and theater director Diagoras Chronopoulos passed away at the age of 76 after a long battle with cancer. He was the Art Theater director from 2004 to September 2014 and until yesterday was the Greek Art...

The University of Piraeus presented Greece’s first solar electric vehicle charging station. A new era is dawning for Greece in the fields of energy and transportation after the inauguration of the first autonomous solar power charging station in the country. The facility...

British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Baroness Joyce Anne Anelay, while speaking at the House of Lords yesterday, made extended reference to Cyprus' relations with Russia, assuring her fellow peers that the bilateral agreements signed during Cypriot...

The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs decided to lift the parliamentary immunity of New Democracy MEP Theodoros Zagorakis. The Committee accepted the request made by the Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor and made the announcement on January 28 in the...

The Greek prosecutor handling former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos' appeal has requested to summon the members of the Government Council of Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) during his tenure. The prosecutor requested that the court summons former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, former...

Italian economist Mario Monti, who served as the country's Prime Minister between 2011 and 2013, leading a government of technocrats during the Italian debt crisis peak, highlighted that Greece's time to "play games" is running out. As he said in...

A recent report from Europolitics, a Brussels-based European affairs daily publication, regarding an alleged European Parliament plan over a possible Grexit, which was later annulled by European Parliament President Martin Schulz, caused Greece's firm reaction. SYRIZA MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis characterized the revelation as...

The Hellenic Museum of Melbourne “resurrected” Socrates for a retrial. Almost 2,400 years after the famous Greek philosopher was sentenced to death by poison, he was once again put to trial in Australia, in the presence of some of...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble's latest provocative statements on Greece and the ongoing negotiations with the country's international partners as well as on his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis, has caused a strong reaction in Athens. In what is seen...