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Athenians poured out of the city this weekend, heading to country villages, islands or other vacation spots, although many have opted not to take trips inside the country because of how hard they've been hit by austerity measures. Ironically, Greece...

More and more Italian tourists are discovering northern Greece thanks to the completion of the motorway Egnatia Odos and to the increase of the direct air connections of Thessaloniki with northern and central Italy. Tourism from Italy has been also...

Simon Critchley, a professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, brought the house down at the 23d World Congress of Philosophy meeting in Athens when he said the Parthenon Marbles stolen from the Acropolis nearly...

The Hellenic Railways Organization (ERGOSE) will sell 17,500 olive trees from olive groves in northern Peloponnese in order to construct the new railway network. The trees are in olive groves which were expropriated along with fields in Korinthia and Achaea,...

The German newspaper Die Zeit published an article, entitled “The bill, please!” in which it charged that Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing re-election next month, is deliberately concealing that she will go along with Greece imposing losses on its lenders,...

According to an article posted in Kathimerini, a study which was conducted by the non-profit, Hamburg-based, Foundation for Future Studies, show that Greeks seem to be second on the list of the happiest European peoples. Despite the financial crisis, Greeks are...

The Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung published a long article titled, We do not owe you money. It refers to the changes the image of Greeks living in Austria has undergone because of the financial crisis in Greece, as well...

Devastated by big pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, 90 percent of Greeks will spend their holidays this year right in their own country, unable to afford to travel, according to a survey by Eurobarometer. This is far ahead...

With a crushing economic crisis affecting many Greeks, more of them are turning to gambling and games of chance, especially during the holiday season, in a desperate bid to get their hands on some big cash fast. That has led...

Only 22% of Greek households are satisfied with their financial situation, three times less than the European Union average, according to a Eurobarometer survey published. Seventy-seven percent of Greeks described their household finances as "rather" or "very bad," against...