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The official number of asylum seekers in Greece came to 62,407 on Tuesday, according to data released on Wednesday by the Greek Defense Ministry’s Coordinating Body for the Management of the Refugee Crisis. On the five Aegean islands that host...

More than a dozen members of the anarchist group Rubicon breached security and entered the courtyard of the Greek parliament. The group threw fliers and shouted slogans standing just outside the parliament building. They were demonstrating demanding the release of a...

Greek consumers seem to know very little about their rights, as they rank last among European Union citizens, according to the 2017 Consumer Conditions Scoreboard that the European Commission published on Tuesday. It is often that the lack of consumer...

The federation of the Ministry of Culture employees (POE-YPPO) has announced a 48-hour strike for this weekend, and as a result museums and archaeological sites in Attica might be closed. Yiannis Mavrikopoulos, president of POE-YPPO told Kathimerini newspaper that "the...

"The quality and number of investors who have shown interest in this bond issue shows that the markets started showing confidence in the Greek economy," Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said. The Greek government is celebrating Monday's successful bond sale claiming...

Olympiacos beat Partizan 3-1 at their home in Belgrade, while AEK lost to CSKA Moscow 0-2 in Athens, in the first leg of the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. After playing an even game until halftime which...

With the old American saying "even turkeys fly in a strong wind", Professor of Economics Nicholas Economides described Tuesday’s foray into the international markets by Greece, the first in three years. In an exclusive interview with the Greek Reporter, Economides...

Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), known as Gray Wolves, sent a threatening message to Athens saying that 15 islands are held by Greece "illegally and unfairly." According to Kathimerini, Bahcelii called on Greece not to...

Greece's national team in the men's water polo tournament at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest has made its way to the semi-finals after a glorious game against opposing team Montenegro, where it prevailed in both offense and...

Greece has made a return to the financial markets, by selling €3 billion worth of its new five-year bond, at a yield (or interest rate) or 4.625%. That’s lower than the 4.95% that Greece last sold five-year bonds for, in...