Greece
Greece
03/14/2016: Latest Greek Super League Results with Video
Olympiakos Piraeus scored twice in the last three minutes to beat Panathinaikos 3-1 (video) thanks to late goals by Manuel da Costa and Brown Ideye in a thrilling Athens derby on Sunday.
Panathinaikos’ Italian coach Andrea Stamaccioni was visibly annoyed...
Greece
Idomeni Migrant Camp Speaks Volumes of Greek Administrative Inefficiency and Makes Mockery of EU Pledges to Human Rights
Greece has begun refugee transfers from the Greek border town of Idomeni where some 13,00 people are stuck after Balkan countries completely sealed off the migrant trail as part of an EU plan, although Germany has publicly denounced the...
Culture
Clean Monday Traditions: Greek Recipes and How to Make Your Own Kite [video]
Clean Monday, also known as Ash Monday, marks the beginning of the 40-day Easter Fast as well as the end of the Carnival. The fast lasts 40 days, just like the number of days that Jesus fasted in the desert. Clean...
Economy
Central Banker Yiannis Stournaras: Debt Talks Will Resume April 15
The debate on the reduction of Greece’s public debt is likely to start the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) spring meeting on April 15, the country’s central banker Yiannis Stournaras said in an interview with Italian paper “Il Sole 24...
events
Patras Carnival Kicks off with Main Parade
Over 30,000 carnival revelers are expected to participate in the main parade on Sunday which will close this year's Patras Carnival. The big parade which started at 2:00 p.m. follows yesterday’s smaller night parade, where revelers danced and sang in...
Greece
Greece Says 44,035 Refugees were in its Territory on Sunday
The ministry of migration policy said on Sunday 44,035 refugees were in Greece’s territory, with 8,904 located on the islands of the eastern Aegean, 10,987 in the region of Attica and 12,000 stranded in Idomeni, in northern Greece.
According to...
Greece
FM Kotzias in Brussels on Monday for EU Meeting on Russia, Iran, Libya
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will be in Brussels on Monday (March 14) to attend a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC).
The items on the FAC agenda include the European Union’s relations with Russia and Iran, as...
Greece
Chines Artist Puts on a Performance in Idomeni for a Young Aspiring Syrian Pianist
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who had announced plans earlier in the year to create a memorial on the Greek island of Lesbos for the plight of refugees, many of whom have lost their lives trying to reach Europe, made...
Greece
Greek Deputy Minister for Migration Policy Hopes to See Turkish Observers at Refugee Centers
As the official announcement that Turkish observers will be assigned to refugee centers on Greek islands stirred up some deep emotions among many Greeks, Syriza government officials have gone on the offensive in an apparent effort to justify the...
Europe
Border Closures Heighten Fear Refugees May Use Adriatic Connection
Huma rights groups and organized crime experts are expressing rising alarm at the prospect of Syrian and Iraqi war refugees — many of them women and children — heading into Albania from Greece, now that the main Balkans route...