Greece

Greek government Vice President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos participated earlier today in the meeting of NATO member-states' Foreign Ministers. The proceedings of the meeting began with a NATO-Ukraine Council and continued with the North Atlantic Council, while on...

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered Greece to pay financial penalties for failing to comply with a 2005 judgment, establishing its failure to fulfill obligations under the "Waste Directive." In addition to a lump sum of 10 million...

Wanted for almost 70 years by German and international authorities, Alois Brunner, the Nazi war criminal who sent 44,000 Thessaloniki Jews to death camps, died four years ago in Syria, according to investigator Efraim Zuroff. Brunner was the right-hand man...

Despite international condemnation and a European Court of Human Rights' ruling last year that Greece's exclusion of same-sex couples from marriages or civil unions was in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, Greek Justice Minister Haralambos Athanasiou expressed...

FIFA and UEFA sent a joint letter to the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO), warning that if the government's proposed sports legislation proceeds, it will mean the end of Greek football teams' presence in international competitions, underlining that such a proposal...

If main opposition SYRIZA comes to power in possible snap election next year, it will demand a reduction in Greece's debt from its bailout program, party leader Alexis Tsipras said earlier today during a financial conference in Athens. According to the...

  Jomaqua is only 103 kilometers from Thessaloniki but it is an American Indian village. It is near Elatochori in the prefecture of Pieria in northern Greece but once there, you can live as an American Indian for a few hours,...

The Eurogroup has decided to give Greece a 10 million euro precautionary credit line for next year, but only if Athens agrees with the troika over the last tranche before December 8, according to a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung report. The...

Potami party leader Stavros Theodorakis late on Monday, speaking to Mega TV, said he is in favour of the election of a President "now" and general elections being carried out in November 2015. According to Mega TV website, Theodorakis commenting...

The government considers that, since the past estimates have been proven true, there will not be a fiscal gap and this is the most serious disagreement with the troika, Greece 's Finance Ministry sources said on Tuesday referring to...