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On Monday the chairman of China's Cosco, Xu Lirong, made announcements that came as a welcome gesture to the tourism sector, according to Reuters. It was announced that there are plans that will be implemented both short-term and long-term, to extend...

Bulgaria is to build a 100 km barbed wire fence along its border with Greece and Turkey and deploy thousands of border guards to prevent migrant flows. Along with the existing structure, the total fence will exceed 200 km, while...

Czech President Milos Zeman proposed that refugees and migrants who end up trapped in Greece be sent to uninhabited islands, in exchange for a gradual reduction of the state debt. The Czech Republic leader was on Rhodes on October 4...

The Greek government is disputing recent opinion polls showing people's dissatisfaction with the administration and presented cases of previous polls that proved to be wrong. The reaction came after the government-endorsed Avgi newspaper published a poll that shows 90% of...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is expected to pass into the hands of the State in February 2017, according to a timeframe presented on Monday at the 66th meeting of the Special Advisory Committee for the Center. The consortium...

Toymaking giant Playmobil has, for the first time, created Olympian gods Zeus and Athena inspired by Greek mythology. The figures are specifically for the Greek market with proceeds from the sales going toward the ELPIDA association of friends of...

A strategy by successive governments to turn Greece into an energy hub is moving into form with the promotion of a series of investment plans focusing on the country. The TAP (Trans Atlantic Pipeline), IGB (Greek-Bulgarian pipeline), East Med...

European Researchers' Night took place on the last Friday of September for the eleventh year. The annual event celebrating science and research across Europe had a total of 1,500,000 visitors in 300 European cities. In Greece, universities and research...

Two Brazilian nationals were arrested by the Greek police for attempting to smuggle 2.240 kilograms of cocaine through security at Eleftherios Venizelos Athens International Airport. The man, aged 24, and his female companion, aged 27, landed in Athens from Sao Paolo via...

The Greek state budget for 2017 envisages an economic growth rate of 2.7 percent and a primary surplus of 1.80 percent, slightly higher than a target of 1.75 percent of an economic policy program. The 2017 draft budget tabled to...