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The unemployed, uninsured, and the poor, who need health care and are lost in the bureaucracy of a National Health System, resort to health centers in order to see a doctor, Greek Alternate Health Minister Andreas Xanthos said on...

A troika demand for further austerity and shrinking of the public sector, without taking in mind the impact on the Greek society and economy, serves only a strict implementation of lending terms and it is not based on some...

Greek exports to the United States in 2014 rose by almost 10 percent compared to 2013 and exceeded 1 billion dollars, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC). The two main factors that contributed to the rise were the...

A total of 127 travel agents and tour operators from Saudi Arabia participated in the 1st Greek Tourism Workshop that took place in Riyadh. The event was held on April 19 at Burj Rafal Hotel Kempinski, in the presence of Greek...

2015 has been going extremely well for Greek-French film composer Alexandre Desplat; two of his soundtracks were nominated for Oscars ("The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "The Imitation Game"), and he ended up winning the Academy Award for "Grand Budapest...

The organizers of the Greek Festival in Perth (Perth Glendi) have sent an open invitation to western Australia’s capital residents, to support the effort to break the Guinness World Record for the largest chain of Zorba sirtaki dancers. The Greek...

The Greek government has fooled society and Greece is facing a dead-end, main opposition leader Antonis Samaras told a private broadcaster on Wednesday. “We’re at a dead-end; the government has fooled society. At this point it has to clash either...

Unemployed people in Greece might not find work again, as long-term unemployment figures are soaring, a Eurostat study shows. Long-term unemployment means that someone has been unemployed for more than 12 months. In 2014, 73.5 percent of unemployed Greeks were...

There is no way we can reach an agreement with creditors before June and a political solution is the only way, said General Secretary of Fiscal Policy Nikos Theocharakis. Theocharakis, who is the head of the Greek negotiating team, described...

  All tickets are sold-out for the upcoming Olympiakos home game against Barcelona for the Euroleague playoffs. Leading the series 2-1, the Pireaus club needs one more win to make it to the 2015 Final-4. Panathinaikos is out of the tournament after its third...

FIFA and UEFA sent an ultimatum to Greece that the country’s national football team and domestic clubs run the risk of being excluded from international competitions if the legislative bill to combat corruption and hooliganism in all the country's sports, proposed...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that the Cyprus problem is begging for an international solution and progress in United Nations-backed peace talks. Speaking before a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu at the State Department, the US official...

One of Greece's top businessmen, Ellaktor Managing Director Leonidas Bobolas, appeared before a public prosecutor after his arrest by the Financial Crime Unit today, accused of major tax evasion but was subsequently released after paying the sum of 1.8 million euros,...

The Euro Working Group (EWG) teleconference, in which Greece participated with Greek Finance Ministry general secretary Nikos Theocharakis and economic experts' team head George Houliarakis who are currently in Paris, concluded on Wednesday evening. After the teleconference, the institutions' representatives returned to the...

The Energy Ministers of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania agreed on the construction of a gas interconnection grid, which is scheduled to begin on March 2016 and completed by the end of 2018. According to Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova,...