Halkidiki

A non-governmental organization based in Belgium is seeking for a Greek volunteer to help in planning the communication strategy, organize demonstrations and coordinate their teams in the case of the Greek gold mines in the northern Halkidiki peninsula, Greece. The...

Big in ...theory, but small in practice has proven to be the investing interest for the long-term 30-year lease of the hotel Makedonia Palace in Thessaloniki. According to ANAmpa, only two candidates appeared today to submit binding offers for the...

Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos will be questioned by a Thessaloniki prosecutor after suggesting residents of Halkidiki should “lynch” a local mayor for backing gold mining in Skouries which many area residents fiercely oppose, saying it would hurt...

Hundreds of Turkish tourists are going to celebrate the end of this year’s Ramadan in Thessaloniki and Halkidiki. The tourists from Turkey will visit Northern Greece by car, bus and air. Ramadan celebration ended on August 7 followed by...

Activists from Greece traveled more than 7,500 kilometers to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to protest in front of the Eldorado Gold Corporation's headquarters. The Greek mine opponents read a letter addressed to the company’s president presenting the social and...

Over 12 million Americans will learn about the flavors, colors and lifestyle of Halkidiki, northern Greece, through articles and broadcasts. In India, 210,000 readers of the magazine Global Destinations will follow in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and...

Unrelenting in their opposition, thousands of Greek protesters on April 13 demonstrated against a gold mining venture under way in the northeastern region of Halkidiki, which locals say will cause irreversible damage to the environment. About 2,000 people took part...

Authorities say a police station has been attacked in a village in northern Greece where frequent protests have broken out against plans to develop a gold mine in the area by a Canadian mining company. The attack took place in...

Despite violent protests, Canada's Eldorado Gold said it plans to go ahead with work on a gold mine in northern Greece, refuting reports it had given up because of the opposition and difficulty of doing business in Greece. "I don΄t...

In unrelenting demonstrations against a gold mine in northern Greece that has gotten the go-ahead from the government, more than 10,000 people took to the streets of the country's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, in a bid to stop the project...