Greece

While the rest of Greece is amid social and financial turmoil, and while several ports and islands live under the fear of this year's questionable tourist season, there is one specific location in Greece that seems to be secluded...

  The mission of the Greek intelligence service is to protect national security and sovereignty and always operates in line with the country’s laws, the head of the service, Yiannis Roubatis, said on Monday, responding to allegations in the media...

For the first time after six years there’s complete agreement between the Greek government and the institutions on when the country’s program review will conclude, which will be by April 22, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Monday speaking...

UNHCR staff at the refugee camp in Idomeni, near the border crossing between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), on Monday reported that the refugees were showing a greater interest in the EU relocation programs than...

The first meeting in a new round of talks between the Greek government’s economic team and representatives of the institutions to conclude the review of Greece’s programme ended in Athens on Monday. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said that it...

Stavros Papastavrou, an aide of Greece's former prime minister Antonis Samaras, is a Greek politician whose name and activities appear in the Panama Papers. Specifically, the documents of the Mossack Fonseca law firm on Papastavrou say: "Not long after Antonis Samaras came...

Sixteen representatives of leading travel agencies from Saudi Arabia which operate in Riad, visited Athens and met with the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Elena Kountoura, acting within the framework of promoting Greek Tourism and attracting visitors from the Saudi Arabian market. This...

The chefs-members of the Chefs Club of Peloponnese, West Greece and the Ionian Islands, have made the biggest strawberry pie ever to be made, and offered it to passers-by in the center of Pyrgos, in Courts Square. The strawberry pie...

Three polling stations in Greece and one in the UK will operate to facilitate Cypriots abroad, who will cast their vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections, on May 22. According to an announcement by the Central Electoral Service, the polling...

Director Vangelis Theodoropoulos has been appointed artistic director of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival following the sudden resignation of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre. Fabre resigned on Saturday after the uproar caused by his controversial works and his choice of...