Greece

Since the elections of May 6, Greece has been in all media headlines in Europe, with the focus being on the Greek left party SYRIZA that on a platform of reversing austerity, won second place. As negotiations with the...

Eleftheria Eleftheriou and Ivi Adamou (photo) will both be at the Eurovison 2012 final. The singers, who represent Greece and Cyprus respectively, amazed the crowds in Azerbaijan, where the contest is taking place, and qualified for the final. Eleftheriou's song...

There is a country where people no longer laugh and everyone is gloomy and miserable. This country’s Prime Minister is called Panagiotis Pikrammenos a.k.a "embittered" and reflects perfectly the feelings reigning in its citizens, wrote a Greek 19-year-old university...

A tribute to director John Cassavetes will be the curtain raiser at this year's edition of the Tainiorama film festival, which is set to run for 42 days through June 27 at the Asty Cinema in Athens. There will be...

Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA), which is struggling with weak load factors, said on Wednesday it will suspend services to Abu Dhabi and Athens from Oct 26 due to weak demand. SIA, the world's second-largest carrier by market value, currently flies...

According to Financial Times, Eurozone central bankers have talked publicly for the first time of managing a possible Greek exit from Europe’s monetary union, as stalemate in Athens talks on a coalition government raises the prospect that Greece will...

Tour operators are battling a drop of about 30 percent in bookings to Greece from Germans, the world’s biggest spenders on foreign holidays, who have been put off by anti-German sentiment following the country’s financial bailout. According to Reuters, Chief...

Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek currency. Some banks never erased the drachma from their systems after Greece adopted the euro more than a decade ago and would be ready at the flick of...

The French elections were eagerly awaited as a means to unity and hope. But while Hollande was winning the election and gathering the entire capital to the iconically republican Place de la Bastille, his prelude to change changed without his...

The Olympic flame for this summer's London Games will be lit Thursday in Ancient Olympia, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) announced on Tuesday. The Flame will be lit "with every solemnity, according to the traditional way," the HOC said in...