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Forty-one migrants landed on a Mykonos coast on Friday afternoon, with the coast guard men transferring them to the island's new port shortly afterwards. According to mykonosdaily.gr website, the Mykonos municipality has set up a coordinating operation in order to provide...

The traditional dance festival "Diamantis Palaiologos" won a European award by the EILEEN (Enhancing Intercultural Learning in European Enterprises) project. The festival, organized for the fourth year on Skopelos, August 27-29, will feature more than 600 volunteers from Greece and...

The hearings for the asylum claim of the eight Turkish military personnel who fled to Greece after the failed coup attempt in Turkey began on Friday with the first officer. Turkey has accused the eight men for participating in the...

The total assets of investment funds increased by approximately 8% to €2.928 million in June 2016, compared with €2.712 million in March 2016, Central Bank statistics show. The Central Bank said that this is "due to the increase of the...

There is rumor that the Italian power grid company, Terna, along with the infrastructure fund F2i (Fondi Italiani per le Infrastrutture) will be making a joint bid to pick up the 24 percent stake the Greek grid operator ADMIE...

A study by the Germany's Bertelsmann Institute published in German newspaper Deutsche Welle refers to the consequences of the economic crisis and years of austerity in South European countries. There has been an exacerbation of problems over the last...

All three teams representing Greece completed victoriously the first leg of the Europa League playoffs for the group stage, thereby keeping Greece in 15th place of international football. The current ranking means that for the 2018-2019 season, Greece will be...

Flexible, cheap work agreements are becoming the norm in Greece with young people under 29 years most affected. Data by Ergani Center for the Support of Employment and Entrepreneurship in Women found that one in two recruitments from a...

According to figures released by the Bank of Greece (BoG) and the General Accounting Office on Thursday, the Greek government has deposited 1.1 billion euros back into the Greek market. The payment in arrears went, for the most part, to...

On Friday morning the Greek coast guard picked up a boat carrying some 70 migrants near the southwest of the Peloponnese region of Greece, the AP reports. The boat ran ashore the uninhabited isle of Sapientza at the southwestern tip of...