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SYRIZA's rise to power was accompanied by popular hopes for reform on all fronts: economic, environmental, political and cultural. Alas, none of the hopes became reality. In fact, instead of spurring positive social change, the governing SYRIZA party has followed closely...

Hollywood actor Jonathan Jackson, star of the legendary US soap opera General Hospital, has released a pop-rock album along with his band Enation, titled “Basileia ton Ouranon,” which explores the theme of Orthodoxy. The album was sponsored by the Greek...

The number of nationwide TV licenses allocated by the Greek government to private broadcasters via a public tender will be less than five in order to secure their viability, Greek State Minister Nikos Pappas said during an interview on...

In a move that was highly anticipated, China’s Cosco Group has just made a bid for a majority share in Piraeus Port Authority (OLP), according to the Greek privatization agency. What is rather surprising is that there were no...

Eldorado Gold, a Canadian-based gold mining company with assets in Europe, Asia and South America, announced that it suspends its mine construction in Skouries as permit delays continue and warned that it would do the same at its other...

The National Bank of Greece (NBG) announced on Tuesday an initiative aimed to support startups with activities in e-commerce through its NBG BusinessSeeds program. The bank will award startups offering innovative products and services, present integrated business models, financial sustainability and...

  Out of sheer desperation for cash, but also as a display of its determination to go after tax debtors, the Greek Finance Ministry is preparing to levy bank accounts, wages and pensions, even for those who owe small amounts...

Greece and Turkey are planning a series of high-level bilateral meetings to discuss tackling the ongoing migrant influx. The trilateral talks between Greece, Turkey and Germany are likely to be called off, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under pressure...

Nurse Melie De Champlain from British Columbia in Canada, just returned from the Greek island of Lesbos, where she was helping locals deal with the refugee crisis. Upon her arrival in Canada, the nurse stressed that her country need...

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"Cyprus is my island / When the going's rough / I would love to find you / Somewhere in a place like that," says a lyric from David Bowie's song "Move on" that was released in 1979. It is not...

Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold says it is suspending work at a site in northern Greece and laying off 600 workers following protests by local residents and a spat with the country's left wing government. The Vancouver, Canada-based company said...

A timely completion of the first review of the Greek program and a dynamic implementation of a privatization program, combined with a new development law by the government will help the economy to respond positively later this year and...

Greek film director Nikos Panayiotopoulos died on Monday at the age of 74. Panayiotopoulos was born on the island of Lesvos in 1941 and studied cinema in Athens and Paris where he lived from 1960 to 1973. He has been...

Foreign investors raised their participation in the capitalization of the Greek stock market in December to 60.3 pct (including the participation of Hellenic Financial Stability Fund) and to 64.2 pct (excluding the participation of HRDAF), from 59.2 pct in...