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A report published by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs states that there were 147 attacks against religious sites around Greece in 2015. The report, published for the first time, was aimed at raising awareness on issues of...

Greece's National Organization for Medicines on Friday issued a temporary ban of parallel exports, stockpiling or intra-Community trade of five brands of children's vaccines guarding against hepatitis and whooping cough, in order to ensure an adequate domestic supply. The ban...

"I feel that we are making a new start, a more ambitious one, with a larger participation of the city and not only the artists," Culture Minister Aristidis Baltas said on Friday in an interview with Praktorio 104.9 FM...

A high-ranking European Commission official, who wished to remain anonymous, said that the second review of the 3rd bailout needs to close by the end of November if a deal for debt relief can be reached at the December...

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency documents that there were 169,993 arrivals in Greece by sea in 2016, compared to 85,723 arrivals in 2015. From these 87 percent were from the world’s top 10 refugee-producing countries (Syria and the Arab...

The economic crisis in Greece has led to an increase in mental disorders, with depression being the most common as more than half million Greeks suffer from it. The data regarding the increase in mental disorders were presented during the...

Real estate sales marked a significant increase of 37% in October 2016 compared to the same month the previous year, continuing an upward trend that began last February. An indication of growing real estate sales is that during the first 10...

The growth rate of the Greek economy in the second half of 2016 will probably be positive, resulting in zero at the end of the year, according to a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development report. The report, called Regional...

The most vulnerable victims of conflict zones are being shunned by members of the Visigrad Group, Greece's Migration Minister, Yannis Mouzalas says. Refugee children, many of whom arrived in Greece and Italy unaccompanied by adults, are a top priority for the...

Yanis Varoufakis disliked the Eurogroup president, refused to negotiate and caused Greece to lose six precious months," writes EU Commissioner for financial affairs, Pierre Moscovici in his book. In his latest book entitled "If it's Midnight in the Century," the...

Greek budget revenues significantly surpassed targets in October by 835 million euros, or 21.37 percent, the General Secretariat for Public Revenue said on Thursday. In a report, the General Secretariat said that in the 10-month period from January to October...

Six out of 10 employers in Greece are finding it difficult to fill their vacant job positions, ManpowerGroup said in its annual international talent shortage report for 2016 released on Thursday. For 2016, ManpowerGroup said that 59 percent of employers had...

Two migrants missing at sea since Thursday morning some six miles north of the Aegean island of Samos were rescued by a Super Puma helicopter in the evening. One of the migrants was well in his health but the other was...

A neurosurgeon, an anesthetist and a paramedic of the Evangelismos public hospital in Athens were arrested by Greek police on charges of asking for a bribe to operate on a patient. The Internal Affairs Directorate of the Hellenic Police filed...

On Friday, Greek riot police put an end to a group of nationalists occupying a site at Votanikos where the country's first mosque is set to be built. The group of 15 nationalists referring to themselves as the "Association of...