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Greek Council on Foreign Policy to Meet

The Greek National Council on Foreign Policy, chaired by Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Evangelos Venizelos, will be meeting today to discuss foreign policy issues that will be introduced at the Council of the European Union. The National Council advises the Greek...

Greek FinMin Stournaras Heads to Eurogroup Meeting

Greek Finance Minister Giannis Stournaras will be attending todays Eurogroup meeting with a mission to assuage impatient EU Finance Ministers, ahead of the return of Troika officials. It is expected that Stournaras will use Greece's 2013  budget surplus as an example...

Kedikoglou: Illegal Immigration Biggest Issue for Greek EU Presidency

In the aftermath of the Farmakonisi incident, New Democracy and SYRIZA continue to exchange words regarding Greece's pressing illegal immigration issue. In the latest round of rebuttals, it was Greek Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou who, replying through a press...

State of Emergency Declared in Cephalonia (Update)

More than  two dozen aftershocks followed Sunday's strong earthquake, which struck just before 4pm off the Greek island of Cephalonia. The initial quake measured 5.9 on the Richter scale, hitting at a relatively shallow depth of ten kilometers, just...

Property Taxes Could Leave Greeks Homeless

During the conference of the Hellenic Property Federation (POMIDA) which was held on Saturday in Athens, the president of the Federation Stratos Paradias, underlined in his remarks the urgent need to change the legislative framework on the new property...

Greek Crisis: Unwanted Toddlers, Child Beggars

The facts being revealed about the child protection networks which are operating in Greece are very concerning. Toddlers abandoned in nurseries, children who are exploited for their labor even by their own families and especially, the absence of a...

Greek Pensioners Sue For Lump Sum Payments

Greek civil servants, upset that the country's highest court has ruled that military pay cuts imposed as part of austerity measures affecting the public sector across-the-board were unconstitutional and must be repaid, are suing to get back lump sum...

Farmakonisi Incident, What Really Did Happen?

New evidence comes to light in the tragic incident last Monday involving a boat transporting illegal immigrants in the eastern Aegean Sea and the Greek coast guard, which led to the death of 12 immigrants. The statements given by...

Heists Netted Terrorists 10M Euro Bankroll

Greek law enforcement officials fear that two terrorists on the loose have plenty of cash to buy guns and explosives and begin a new reign of violence after estimating that guerrilla groups over the years have stolen about 10...

Golden Dawn Spokesman Wants Athens Mayor's Seat

Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman for Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, facing charges along with other party leaders of running a criminal gang, told supporters that he will run for Mayor of Athens next year despite the government's vow to...