Greece

Benaki Museum in Athens will present on May 12 the award-winning Turkish documentary "The Eye of Istanbul" by directors Binnur Karaevli and Fatih Kaymak, which tells the story of renowned Turkish-Armenian photographer Ara Güler during the preparation of a...

The correspondent of Greece's public broadcaster ERT in France, Thomais Papaioannou, said she was treated as a non Schengen Zone citizen when she arrived at Paris airport. The incident the reporter posted in social media has sparked a public debate regarding...

Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has selected a joint venture consisting of Italy’s Renco S.p.A and Greece’s Terna S.A. for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the project’s compressor stations, the company said in a press release on...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has lowered the borrowing ceiling to Greek banks by 300 million euros on Thursday. The Emergency Liquidity Assistance mechanism (ELA) was lowered to 69.1 billion euros on Thursday, the ECB said after accepting a request made...

About 95% of the 220 billion euros disbursed to Greece since the beginning of the economic crisis have gone to save European banks and not the country, a study says. According to the study by the European School of Management and...

Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said that 30,000-40,000 refugees will stay in Greece for a long time. Mouzalas headed a meeting on the migration issue in Thessaloniki. He said that the makeshift migrant camp in Idomeni, on the Greek-FYROM...

In a sudden move, the Greek government decided to bring the bills on social security and tax reforms for vote to parliament this weekend, ahead of Monday's Eurogroup. The government unexpectedly called a plenary for this weekend in order to pass the...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is a legacy of culture and knowledge for Athens, Greek main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday during a tour of the Center’s construction site. "It is a truly remarkable project...

The last time that the Monastery of the Three Hierarchs held a mass in Lousoudi Kapetanion in Crete, was 600 years ago. However, the bells of the Monastery rung once again on Wednesday, three days after Easter, when the Monastery...

Nicosia nominations for the May 22 parliamentary elections concluded on Wednesday at the Filoxenia Conference Center. As announced by the Returning Officer for Nicosia, Marios Panayides, a total of 180 nominations were submitted compared to 144 applications in 2011. Of these...