Greece

EU Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Thursday that Greece's European creditors "shouldn't play with fire" in regards to the country's debt relief program, according to Reuters. The statement came after Athens pleaded its case to its lenders...

The European Parliament President, Antonio Tajani, announced to reporters that it is time the EU member states come together to implement asylum procedures aimed at stopping asylum seekers from “shopping for asylum status." Tajani made several statements to reporters on...

Ascend is a new philanthropic initiative that was announced on Thursday at the Concordia Europe Summit in Athens, aiming at helping refugees and Greeks in need. Radcliffe Foundation, IKEA Foundation, Libra Group and The Coca-Cola Company announced that the will...

Unique corners of Athens, archaeological sites, parks, squares, museums and even beaches are among the places enlisted and transformed into outdoor cinemas by the 7th Athens Open Air Film Festival, which returns this summer with 20 screenings between June...

Greece's creditors ask for the "freezing" of pensions for an additional year -- until 2022 instead of 2021 -- as a prerequisite to close the second review of the bailout program. This new requirement comes as a result of the...

The Refugee Food Festival, a partnership between the NGO Food Sweet Food and UNHCR, is coming to Athens from June 18 till June 22 to coincide with the World Refugee Day (June 20). The event, a civil society led initiative...

Ankara has issued more navigational telexes (Navtex) or notices to mariners, that it will be sending a survey vessel to the island’s exclusive economic zone to conduct seismic research and rescue simulation exercises in part of Cyprus’ offshore natural gas blocks as...

Greece’s foreign ministry expressed its abhorrence on Wednesday for the violent attacks at the Iranian Parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran. “We unequivocally condemn terrorism in all its forms and we express our full support for the...

Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios of Qatar said that the Greek embassy is prepared for the possibility that Greeks living in the country might want to leave, but expressed optimism that the political crisis will end soon. After several Arab countries...

Addressing the Concordia Europe Summit in Athens, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras said that Greece was given the wrong medicine referring to the memoranda the country signed -- including his government -- in exchange for bailout loans. The Greek premier...