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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...

Speaking on BBC’s HARDtalk, Greece’s newly-elected New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis charged Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with being a “populist” who won the elections by making promises that he could not be delivered. Specifically, Mr Mitsotakis said that Mr....

One of Greece's top photojournalists, Giannis Kyriakides, who wrote history in the field of photography through his unique style of work, has died at the age of 92. Based in Thessaloniki, Kyriakides for 70 years captured the biggest events inside...

Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation released a report today that says that the collapse of the Schengen area could cost the European Union economy up to 1.4 trillion euros over the next decade. Employing a worse case scenario in which the reintroduction...

A family of refugees have been reunited with their beloved cat, after splitting up from the pet while fleeing from Iraq. The epic journey of Kunkush the "refugee cat" lasted over four months when he was welcomed in Norway...

Greece’s Alternate Migration Minister, Yiannis Mouzalas, said that there are countries which do not respect EU’s decisions and there is nothing the EU can do about it, the result being that Greece, as a southern country located at the...

"The main mission of NATO in the Aegean will be surveillance," Alternate Minister for Civil Protection Nikos Toskas on Sunday said in an interview with newspaper "Avghi." "NATO will be responsible for the surveillance and observation of migratory flows and...

The quartet of Greece's creditors return to Greece on Monday to discuss several issues that remain unresolved, with the finance minister worrying that new fiscal measures might be needed. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos says that the bailout program evaluation must...