Greece

A spirited, but limited Greek side lost to Italy 2-0 at Rome's Stadio Olimpico on Saturday for the Euro 2020 qualifiers. The defeat has left Greece second from bottom in Group J, just above Lichtenstein, with just five points in...

The Greek National team suffered another miserable night losing 1-0 to Finland in Tampere - a result which leaves Greece all but out of the Euro 2020 finals. New coach John van’t Schip made several changes to the team that...

The Greek Football Federation (EPO) announced on Wednesday that former Dutch international winger John Van't Schip will take over as the new coach of the national team. Canadian-born Van't Schip signed a two-and-a-half year contract for an undisclosed fee, EPO...

Teams from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, or Frontex, will patrol Albania's borders with Greece for the first time, it was announced on Tuesday in Tirana. The newly-placed officers will patrol areas for illegal immigration and also keep...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades met on Monday evening with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the old Larnaka airport, where the latter had a layover on his way to Asia from France, during which they discussed the Cyprus problem...

The First Greek-Serbian Tourism Forum to increase the growth of tourism and develop specialty tourism between the two countries throughout the year was held in Thessaloniki on Friday. A total of 97 tourist agencies and organizations attended from Serbia and 135 from...

Greece ranks 108th among 162 countries and is placed in the third category in terms of indicators of economic freedom, a study by the Fraser Institute shows. Specifically, the study by the Canadian think tank places Greece in the same...

Greek Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas is out of the race for the European Council's Commissioner for Human Rights, after coming fourth in Thursday's vote. Mouzalas received 21 votes, not enough to put him among the three candidates who will...

The heads of the Greek and Turkish armed forces exchanged views on the situation in the Balkans on Wednesday at the annual meeting of Balkan chiefs of defense and general staff (11th Balkan Countries CHODs Conference), held in Athens. The...

Police identified the man who held an offensive banner during the football match between Greece and Bosnia-Herzegovina last Sunday at a World Cup qualifying match. A banner with the slogan "Noz, zica, Srebrenica" ("Knife, wire, Srebrenica”) was displayed among Greek...

The Greek football federation apologized to the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina following a banner by a fan at a World Cup qualifying match. The federation condemned the banner that referred to the Srebrenica massacre. In a statement it said that...

This year, there was a twist in topics at the 13th Thessaloniki International Book Fair. As a part of the Year of Greek-Russian Friendship, there was the highlighted theme of Russian literature, and in light of the refugee crisis that has...

The draw that took place in Russia on Saturday, July 25, determined that if Greece qualifies for its third FIFA Wold Cup finals in a row, the team will be placed in the same pool as fellow 2014 finalists Bosnia...

"Greece is returning to the Balkans," Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said, in statements after briefing a meeting of the National Council on Foreign Policy about the results of his tour in seven southeastern European countries. Kotzias said that he had...

Huffington Post recently published a Gallup survey of the “12 Countries That Hate Their Government Most." Greece ranks in third place, just behind Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria. “In many countries, lawmakers and their governments are quite unpopular. U.S. President Barack Obama’s approval...