Thessaloniki

The second Gay Pride Festival in Thessaloniki is scheduled for June 14-15 under the slogan Free Minds, Free Bodies. The festival will start with a big street party, while an art exhibition will be hosted at a cultural space. Thessaloniki...

Second-grade students of the Second General Lyceum of Eleftherio-Kordelio, a city in northwest Thessaloniki, started a research in September 2012 trying to collect as much information as possible on the period before and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and...

Greece will reportedly abandon plans to host a summit meeting of European Union and Western Balkan countries next year when it assumes the six-month rotating Presidency of the EU in Januarky, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. The meeting had been planned...

The sketch, comic and cartoon festival, under the title The Economic Crisis and its Impact on Greek Society, which is organized by the municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, will present works of professional and new artists seen in the light...

The CosmoPHOS-nano Project, whose opening meeting was held in Thessaloniki, aims at the creation of an innovative system for the treatment, diagnosis and effectiveness of the treatment of atherosclerotic heart disease (Coronary Heart Disease-CHD) based on nanotechnology. This program started...

Misha the bear, who had been transferred from Belgrade’s Zoo to Arcturos Bear Sanctuary in Nymfaio, Florina, during the war in Yugoslavia in 1999, passed away in hibernation, it was reported. Volunteers noticed that all the bears had woken up...

A 111 year-old mosque in Thessaloniki, Greece has opened its doors to Muslim worshippers for the first time in 90 years at at the same time a planned mosque in Athens is moving closer to reality and as Turkey...

There was tension at the students' demonstration outside the Parliament, in protest of the changes the Athena project will implement to Universities. Students burned the EU flag and the police made use of tear gas. A little after 4...

During this year's summer season Thessaloniki and Smyrna are expected to come a little bit closer. The air connection between the two cities will be open from June 22 to September 12 with charter flights, stated the General Manager of...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups in a landmark speech marking the 70th anniversary of the first deportations of Thessaloniki's Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Samaras spoke Sunday at a memorial ceremony at the...