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A group of anti-establishment protesters managed to enter the premises of the Greek Parliament for several minutes earlier today protesting for the abolition of maximum security prisons (the so-called «Type-C» prisons). The group was asking for the release of former...

A Grexit could cost the European Central Bank tens of billions of credit, a hole that Germany and other euro zone members may have to fill, says a Reuters report. The continuous arguing between Greece and lenders has put a...

The Euro 2004 Champions, Greece, beat the 2004 national team of Cyprus 6-1 in a friendly match in Nicosia in front of 6.000 fans. Angelos Charisteas, Giorgos Karagounis, Stelios Giannakopoulos and the rest of the gang that participated in the...

An agreement with the lenders is expected to be reached in the Holy Week, Greek Economy Minister George Stathakis told SKAI TV on Wednesday. "I take it for granted that the agreement will close soon and will lead to the disbursement of...

The Greek Government proposed a new list of economic reforms to its creditors today. The 26-pages-long list covers taxation, privatizations, Greece’s public sector, its labour market and healthcare, among others. The list was firstly obtained by The Financial Times and journalist...

With no significant decisions, as expected, concluded the Euro Working Group (EWG) teleconference about Greece. According to a Eurozone source the discussion between the single currency's Deputy Finance Ministers lasted less than two hours and the member states' representatives...

A Russian sailing ship has docked in Patras until April 2, on a visit leading to a twinning between the Greek port city and Kaliningrad, the home of the Russian Baltic fleet.

The newly elected SYRIZA – Independent Greeks (ANEL) coalition government has managed to attract the Greek public opinion to its side in the first two months since it took office. According to a new opinion poll conducted by the University...

About 500,000 immigrants mostly from Syria are waiting in Turkey to enter Greece, according to information by the Greek secret services. At a time when the citizen protection ministry decided to reduce by 30 percent the border guard forces in Xanthi,...

The special committee that will pursue war reparations, the repayment of the loan received during the occupation and the return of stolen archaeological treasures from Germany starts work today. The committee convenes a few days after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras...

While Greece's lenders are pushing the Greek government to accept their terms in order to allocate funds so the country will not go bankrupt, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis seems to have another ace up his sleeve. The second top thinker in the...

No one can blame Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for not trying hard enough to hold the country from falling off the cliff. Like a captain in a ship hit by the roughest storm, he fights tooth and nail to...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos, on his second day in Cyprus, visited the Greek Contingent in Cyprus (ELDYK), in line with the provisions of the 1960 Constitution which established the Republic of Cyprus, as well as the...

"The ties between Greece and Russia can be upgraded to a new level and Greece can become a bridge between the West and Russia," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told TASS news agency, ahead of his upcoming visit to Moscow...

The newly elected leftist-led Greek government coalition is expected to submit a proposal for the creation of a committee to examine the previous governments' handling of the country's debt crisis. Specifically, according to government sources, the so called «memorandum examination...