Greece

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Deputy Minister for Sports Stavros Kontonis on Friday to continue efforts to reform Greece’s football leagues following increased crowd violence at games. Kontonis canceled this season's Greek Cup indefinitely. Tsipras met with Kontonis earlier to...

Greek parliament approved in principle on Friday a bill on migration activating the EU-Turkey deal and allowing the return of refugees to Turkey as of Monday, with 169 votes in favor and 107 against. Twenty four MPs were absent. SYRIZA,...

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that Greece's ruling party SYRIZA will dwindle from 40 percent to 4 percent. Varoufakis gave an interview to The Economist where he predicts the fall of the Alexis Tsipras party: "There is no...

A planned nude performance directed by Belgian artist Jan Fabre at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival this summer has caused an outcry. The initial reaction over the festival was by Greek artists who protested the decision of Culture Minister Aristides...

Greece will support any decisions made by the Republic of Cyprus and will stand by Nicosia for the achievement of a viable solution of the Cyprus problem which will safeguard national rights, Greek Minister of Defense Panos Kammenos has...

Hundreds of refugees and migrants left the hot-spot of BIAL in Chios, on Friday April 1 and are heading towards the city of Chios, through the provincial highway. According to the local site of Chios, astraparis.gr, around noon, the refugees...

An earthquake occurred on the island of Crete in the afternoon, mostly felt in Herakleion. The earthquake was of 4.5 magnitude on the Richter Scale, according to the Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens. The earthquake was mostly felt...

Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas had a series of meetings with officials representing countries affected by the refugee crisis during the UNHCR Conference on Refugees in Geneva. Mouzalas met with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi,...

The construction of new hosting areas aiming at decongesting Idomeni and Piraeus port was discussed at Friday's meeting of the Refugees and Migration Policy Government's Council chaired by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the Maximos mansion. According to sources, top...

Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who managed to escape from ISIS, wants to become the voice of the refugees seeking legal ways to Europe. The Yazidi rights activist is paying a visit to Athens these days to offer support to the...