Greece

ATHENS - Development Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, who has stated he wants to take over the leadership of the PASOK Socialist party, which has been in shambles and sliding deep in the polls since the resignation of George Papandreou as...

Greece's situation is "pretty hopeless", Greek Economy Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said in a newspaper interview released Wednesday, but insisted Athens was doing everything to "ensure our country's survival." "On the one hand, our situation is pretty hopeless," Chrysochoidis said in...

A Wikileaks leak  revealed comments by former Minister for Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis.  He spoke disparagingly about Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) to American ambassador Daniel Speckhard. Three telegrams composed by the former American ambassador to Athens have been published by the British...

Six months after the murder of Greek investigative reporter, Giorgos Karaivaz, the group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is asking the Greek government to speed up the investigation. The prominent Greek journalist was brutally murdered on the morning of April 9, 2021...

Athens police have now been assigned bodycams after their use of batons on protestors at a demonstration over Covid-19 restrictions.

Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis decried the influence of social media, especially with the youth, saying it was “bad for our democracy.”

Turkish soldiers fired guns over the border with Greece at Evros on two separate occasions earlier in March, Der Spiegel reports.

A massive demonstration of nearly 6,000 people against police brutality has resulted in violent clashes between police and protesters.

Over 100 people have been arrested in Athens on Sunday after attempting to hold a demonstration for the anniversary of the killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in 2008, despite the state's ban on gatherings. The majority...

Around 50 anarchists clashed with police in the Athenian neighborhood of Kolonos on Saturday, leaving four officers injured. As of Saturday evening, no arrests have been made. Reportedly, the group of anarchists gathered to demonstrate for the anniversary of the...

A man who had come on a boat to Greece from Turkey in 2017, claiming political asylum from the nation of Tajikistan, was brought before the appellate prosecutor of Nafplio by officers from Greece's Special Suppression Counter-Terrorism Unit (EKAM)...

Greece begun this week the construction of the new fence at the border with Turkey along the Evros River, a project aimed at stopping illegal immigration into the country. The 5-meter (16.4 foot) tall fence with a total length of...

Greek authorities announced the arrests of five young migrants in relation to the series of fires that razed the refugee camp Moria to the ground last week. Another man has been identified and authorities are in the process of locating...

A total of 800 migrants and refugees who had been left without shelter after the fires that destroyed the Moria camp on Lesvos last week, were resettled at a new facility by Monday evening. The Greek Army built a temporary...

  At a meeting today on the cosmopolitan island of Mykonos, Greek Citizens Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis vowed that police authorities in the country would be heightening their enforcement of the many rules and regulations designed to stem the further...