Greek News

"Life is that fraction of a second where the past meets the future in black and white eternity. The basic idea for me is life untouched, unprocessed. My photography is like that." Dimitris Tzanis is a film maker who quit...

The Greek family remains very traditional as the man goes to work and puts bread on the table while the woman stays at home and tends to the household, according to a new report by the Hellenic Statistical Authority...

The Greek Parliament has voted on a new legislation that institutionalized the legal obligation to deposit films and the establishment of a National Film Heritage Preservation Organization that will be managed by the Greek Film Archive. Since 1982, the Council of Europe...

His aim is to tackle as many of the 81 million fake facebook profiles as possible, that most users have encountered at least once. The 30-year-old computer engineer from Corfu, Giorgos Delaportas, who created the unique program that automatically...

The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece , is planning on entertaining its visitors throughout the holiday season with various imaginative workshops for children and many special presentations and surprises. Visitors will have the chance to see the unique Acropolis model made...

Greek Presidential candidate Stavros Dimas ruled out the scenario of being elected as the next President with the votes of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn. “As I respect the democratic institutions, I will not accept being elected President of the Republic...

A well-known German eyewear company has challenged its customers to buy 420,000 frames and, in exchange, it will buy a Greek island for them. Libuda Optic World, based in Villingen-Schwenningen in southern Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, which is specialized in manufacturing and selling...

Towards the emergency issuing of Greek treasury bills is directed the Finance Ministry in order to secure some 4.5 billion euros for the country’s government, which in the first quarter of 2015 needs to cover the payment of interest...

More than half of the Greek schoolchildren living in the country’s poor areas face “food insecurity,” suffering from a lack of access to enough food necessary to ensure a healthy life, according to 2013 data. The worrying and sad phenomenon...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is processing his final strategies ahead of the final, third ballot for the election of the President of the Hellenic Republic. The speculation regarding the Greek Premier’s final move has dramatically risen since yesterday and...

Greek tax revenue for the January-November 2014 period missed its target by 678 million euros, which is attributed to the significant reduction in income tax collection (at 416 million euros), according to data published by the Finance Ministry yesterday. In addition,...

The electoral alliance between Spyros Lykoudis’ Reformers and Stavros Theodorakis’ "To Potami" was announced today at a press conference that took place at the Old Parliament in downtown Athens, Greece. Lykoudis revealed that he was in talks with Theodorakis regarding...

Congratulatory letter from the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, and the Premier of Quebec, Philippe Couillard, received two Greek-Canadian publishers, George Guzmas and George Bakoyannis, on the occasion of the circulation of the 2000th issue of four of their...

Students who excelled in learning Greek in the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) examinations were awarded by the Greek Community of Melbourne during the established annual celebration of Christmas, which took place this year at the beautiful new community building...

Tourist arrivals in Greece jumped 21.9% to top the 20 million "barrier" in January-October 2014, boosting travel industry revenue by 10.6% compared to the same period in 2013, Bank of Greece (BoG) reported on Tuesday. Total travel revenue for the...