Syntagma Square

The Exarcheia area in downtown Athens was once again the field of riots as hooded men burned cars, smashed shop windows and vandalized bus stops. The riots started at night after about 1,000 anarchists marched from Monastiraki to Syntagma Square...

Thousands of people gathered again at Syntagma Square across the Greek parliament in downtown Athens to show their support to the government ahead of Monday's critical meeting of the Eurozone Finance Ministers in Brussels. The call was made by Greek...

For yet another afternoon and despite the freezing cold and the light snow falling since yesterday, more that 10,000 Athenians gathered in front of the Greek Parliament at Syntagma Square in downtown Athens to express their support to the Greek...

A demonstration largely different from those Athens has seen in recent years took place today in downtown Athens' Syntagma Square. The rally was called for 6.00 pm and was organized through social media. It was the first pro-government demonstration...

Newly elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras proceeded with yet another symbolic move since he assumed office last Monday, by ordering the removal of the iron fence placed before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square in downtown...

The Syrian refugees who had camped in across the Greek Parliament at Syntagma Square in protest, were removed from the spot in a joint effort between the Municipality of Athens and the Greek Police. The refugees had been at the...

Fruitful was finally the meeting held earlier today between the Greek Interior Ministry's Secretary General, Angelos Syrigos, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis and the representatives of the Syrian refugees who have been in a sitting protest for more than 20 days in Syntagma...

Syrian refugees who have camped at Syntagma Square across the Parliament in downtown Athens, Greece , since November 20 demanding EU travel documents, have begun applying for political asylum, Secretary General of Population and Social Cohesion Angelos Syrigos said on...

Almost the entire Greek Police force of the Attica region will be on alert on Saturday due to the sixth anniversary of Alexandros Grigoropoulos' assassination, the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the planned parliamentary vote on...

Two Syrians refugees, among those protesting in Syntagma Square in order to be granted a political asylum, have lost their lives, as their compatriots revealed yesterday. According to them, one died in his attempt to cross the Greek-Albanian border...