Greece

Violence erupted again on Wednesday at Idomeni, the sprawling tent city that has been created on Greece's northern border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Incidents began at 8:30 p.m. when about a hundred migrants ran towards...

A group of hooded rioters attacked various tertiary education institutions during the university elections on Wednesday. Attacks took place at the Athens Law School, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and the Education Institute. Ten people entered the Athens...

The European Commission has not met the target it set two months ago for the relocation of 20,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy by mid-May. Instead, only 553 refugees -- just 3 percent -- have been transported from...

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has made it publicly known that the elections which will appoint the new president of the federation will take place on September 14 in Athens, in a conference where all its 55...

The general secretariat of transparency and human rights of the ministry of justice and the Hellenic Association of Seropositive People named “Positive voice” are organizing a one-day conference titled “HIV/AIDS and discrimination; spotting the stigma of the stigma,” on...

The meeting of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will take place on May 23 in Istanbul, according to sources. The meeting will be held on the sidelines of the World Humanitarian UN Summit and will focus...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble reportedly rejects the International Monetary Fund proposal in which Greece would freeze loan and interest repayments until 2040. Schaeuble told German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung that he will not allow that as long as he is...

Greece needs a different policy mix that will emphasize structural reforms and not taxes, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday following a meeting in Paris with Angel Gurría, the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...

Athens is not planning to advance talks with Russia on the Poseidon pipeline, during the upcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Greece, a EurActiv report says. On May 17, Greece launched construction on a 550-kilometer section of the...

Greece's General Secretariat for Public Revenue will become independent as of 2017, free from state control and monitoring, and with a European Commission expert next to its governor. According to a Kathimerini report citing a draft bill the newspaper has...