Greek News

Capital Link is hosting its 9th Annual Greek Shipping Forum “Opportunities & Challenges”, on Thursday, February 8th, 2018 at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, Greece. The Forum held in cooperation with NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange will...

The dramatic moment when dozens of migrants make a dash to board ferries that would carry them from the Greek port of Patra to Italy has been captured on camera. The amateur video shot from a ferry’s deck shows people...

Crocodiles, cobras and giant Komodo-dragon-sized lizards called varanids once walked the banks of the Axios River and lived on the Greek island of Evia between nine and 18 million years ago, according to recent findings from a study of...

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who will on Friday step down as president of the Eurogroup of euro area finance ministers, told the U.K.'s Financial Times newspaper that further reform efforts are needed in Greece. Since July 2015 and after a tumultuous six months when...

By Savas Abadsidis Hollywood production company Little Studio Films, run by the Greek/Italian mother/daughter team of Alexandra Yacovlef and Alexia Melocchi, seek to do that very thing with sponsor Sophid Greece who’ll be supporting a spate of films, beginning with...

Convicted November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas -- currently serving a number of life sentences for crimes including murder -- is to ask for new prison leave, only months after his first two-day release sparked anger from victims’ families. Koufodinas, convicted...

Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Kotzias and his FYROM counterpart Nikola Dimitrov met in Thessaloniki on Thursday where they discussed ways to move forward with the name dispute. The two men focused on the methodology, the approach of the two...

The Semaphore Greek Festival, South Australia's Hellenic festival, is to celebrate its 39th year this weekend, on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 January. The two-day Semaphore Greek Cultural Festival is held at the Semaphore foreshore every January. It is situated...

Six media groups have applied to get TV licenses in Greece in the latest effort by government to shake up what it sees as a debt-ridden, unregulated broadcasting sector. If all are successful, it would be mean a reduction...

Labor union members and riot police faced off in Athens on Thursday evening, on the eve of major nationwide industrial action. Riot police were ordered to assemble at the front of a Finance Ministry building, where members of the Communist...

  Greece's government on Thursday came in for stinging criticism from a German media outlet for its handling of the case of eight Turkish ex-servicemen wanted by Ankara for their alleged role in the 2016 coup attempt. Spiegel Online carried a...

OTE-owned Greek pay-TV service Cosmote TV, has secured exclusive rights to UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League football, until 2021. All Champions League and Europa League matches will air exclusively on Cosmote Sports channels, as it has done for...

Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Kotzias and FYROM counterpart Nikola Dimitrov, met in Thessaloniki on Thursday, where they discussed ways to move forward with the name dispute, focusing on the methodology, the approach of the two parties and the framework...

The Independent Greeks (ANEL) will call for a meeting of political leaders if they disagree with the name that will be negotiated with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM), party leader and Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said on...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymos II, that the government will pursue Greece's national interests in its name dispute with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM). He was responding to the Standing...