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President of Bulgaria Rosen Plenveliev has reiterated his country's support toward the efforts for a settlement of the Cyprus problem, underlining that his country will never support frozen conflicts and division practices. Plenveliev was speaking during a dinner he hosted...

Greece has filed a formal complaint with Austria over its decision to call a meeting of Balkan states on the migrant crisis. "Political Director of the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Petros Mavroeidis, presented yesterday to Austrian Ambassador to Greece, Mrs. Andrea...

Eight out of ten Greeks distrust the government and the overall political system, a new Eurobarometer survey shows. The new report by the survey body of the European Commission also shows that Greeks do not trust mass media, and television...

The Greek government decided to accommodate 50,000 more refugees on its soil and then negotiate again with the EU on how to tackle the continuous migrant inflow. In an extraordinary cabinet meeting on Monday evening, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras decided...

Six Turkish fighter jets and two CN-235 maritime patrol aircraft entered successively in Athens FIR on Monday without submitting a flight plan. The Turkish warplanes violated the Greek airspace 36 times at different points of the Aegean Sea. Athens FIR...

Talks between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and representatives of protesting farmers on Monday evening failed to find a solution on a month-long blockade of Greece's national highways. Tsipras told the farmers that their "positions and proposals have to take into...

Do you want to learn Greek but haven't yet found the right and most suitable way to do it? Now there is a great new online service available for anybody wishing to improve their Greek skills, or Philhellenes looking to...

The police arrested one publisher and two journalists for blackmailing public organizations, companies and banks. The persons arrested are Panayiotis Mavrikos, publisher of the newspaper “Acropolis” and reporters Panagiotis Mousas and Christos Fragou. Mavrikos reportedly blackmailed public organization executives and bankers,...

One of the leading members of the organization "Epanastatikos Agonas," Pola Roupa, attempted to help her partner and comrade Niko Mazioti escape from Korydallos prison via helicopter. According to the information currently available, a woman who bears a striking resemblance...

After four and a half hours of talks, Greek farmers left the government mansion saying that they will present the prime minister's proposals to their unions to decide whether they would continue their protest actions. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has...

IN-EDIT Festival returns to Athens! From February 24th until the 28th, the biggest international festival for music documentaries will present the best and most interesting recent music documentaries. The idea began in 2003 in Barcelona, where for the first time, a...

According to daily French financial newspaper Les Echos, Greece is fighting for its life to avoid isolation as one country after another are sealing off their borders to refugees and migrants. European officials may have been able to reach an...

A group of about 150 Afghan refugees and migrants occupied the train tracks in Idomeni in recent hours. The group took down the wire fence along the tracks of Idomeni in order to protest the ban to enter the...

Corfu's candidacy for "European Cultural Capital 2021" will be presented on Tuesday in Athens by Corfu Mayor Costas Nikolouzos. The presentation will be held at central Athens hotel ahead of the selection of the candidate cities that will move into...

A recently released study by the Economics Department at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens revealed that Greece has the third highest taxation rate among 21 European countries. Only Sweden and Denmark have a higher tax rate, countries with...