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The review of Greece's programme should ideally be concluded before April 12, a well-informed source in Brussels told the ANA-MPA on Friday, while clarifying that this depended on the required "political will." According to the same source, there was a...

Listed companies in the Athens stock exchange registered losses totaling 7.5 billion euros last year with the banking sector being the main contributor, according to data published by Beta Securities on Friday. Beta looked into the balance sheets of 199...

In a recent press release, the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association (AHA), announced that hotels in Athens have been seeing their occupancy numbers decrease since last fall until February 2016. According to AHA's data, there was a steady decrease throughout...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Deputy Minister for Sports Stavros Kontonis on Friday to continue efforts to reform Greece’s football leagues following increased crowd violence at games. Kontonis canceled this season's Greek Cup indefinitely. Tsipras met with Kontonis earlier to...

Greek parliament approved in principle on Friday a bill on migration activating the EU-Turkey deal and allowing the return of refugees to Turkey as of Monday, with 169 votes in favor and 107 against. Twenty four MPs were absent. SYRIZA,...

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that Greece's ruling party SYRIZA will dwindle from 40 percent to 4 percent. Varoufakis gave an interview to The Economist where he predicts the fall of the Alexis Tsipras party: "There is no...

A planned nude performance directed by Belgian artist Jan Fabre at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival this summer has caused an outcry. The initial reaction over the festival was by Greek artists who protested the decision of Culture Minister Aristides...

Greece will support any decisions made by the Republic of Cyprus and will stand by Nicosia for the achievement of a viable solution of the Cyprus problem which will safeguard national rights, Greek Minister of Defense Panos Kammenos has...

Hundreds of refugees and migrants left the hot-spot of BIAL in Chios, on Friday April 1 and are heading towards the city of Chios, through the provincial highway. According to the local site of Chios, astraparis.gr, around noon, the refugees...

An earthquake occurred on the island of Crete in the afternoon, mostly felt in Herakleion. The earthquake was of 4.5 magnitude on the Richter Scale, according to the Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens. The earthquake was mostly felt...