economic crisis

Welfare Secretary General Dimitris Karellas said that one in three students goes to school hungry, announcing a program that would feed some of the children. Speaking on Mega television on Tuesday morning, Karellas said that 200,000 out of 600,000 elementary...

Depression, anxiety, frustration, fear, disappointment and anger are some of the negative emotions that 44 percent of Greeks feel as a result of the economic crisis, according to research. In a study conducted by GPO on behalf of the National...

Secretary of State John Kerry told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that the United States wants to help Greece come out of the economic crisis. "I appreciate the way in which you have been approaching the economic reform effort and...

Greece recorded the third highest tax ratio increase among OECD countries in the 2013-2014 period, with an 1.5% increase, following Denmark (3.3%) and Iceland (2.8%), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Thursday. In its annual Revenue Statistics publication,...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with visiting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday, with talks focusing directly on the ongoing refugees crisis plaguing Greece and the rest of Europe, the economic crisis, as well as bilateral relations. During the...

The economic depression in the Mediterranean – and especially Greece – has dominated Europe’s headlines in the last several years, leading many businesses to bankruptcy and people to unemployment. Two years ago, Greek London-based lawyer; Joanne Skoulikas quit her successful...

  Company bankruptcies in Greece slowed to 330 in 2014, from 392 in 2013, for a decline of 15.8%, the second biggest percentage decline in European south after Spain, a survey by ICAP Group, a member of the Federation of...

More than 600 Greek patients are being treated in the Humboldt Municipal Outpatient Mental Health Clinic in Berlin's Wittenau district. Three out of four of these patients are people who migrated to Germany after 2010, when Greece was hit by...

The Greek Open University is in danger of having its study programs cancelled and being shut down due to lack of funds. A large number of faculty and staff of the Open University is getting paid by a program funded...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a three-hour dinner with Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos and discussed the importance of the Church's philanthropy and the need for constructive dialogue between Church and State. The Archbishop received the prime...