Greece

Member of European Parliament Ioannis Lagos, a former leader of Golden Dawn, has been able to avoid arrest after being sentenced by a Greek court for his part in leading the group, since he is currently in Brussels enjoying...

The European Commission published its Winter 2020 Economic Forecast on Thursday, showing Brussels' projections regarding growth rates for nations in the European Union for both 2020 and 2021. The European Executive body noted in the report that ''The euro area...

Margaritis Schinas, the next Vice President of the European Commission, said on Thursday that a new, integrated, coherent and sustainable European policy on handling refugees and migrants will be the main priority for the von der Leyen administration. The VP...

Greek Minister of Defense Nikos Panagiotopoulos met with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar in Brussels on Friday. The meeting took place concurrent with the NATO Defense Ministers summit which is currently being held in Belgium's capital city. This was the first time that...

Vitor Gaspar, the Head of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) presented the Fund's Fiscal Monitor on Wednesday, just before its annual autumn summit in Washington. With regard to the IMF's projections about Greece's economy, the data presented...

A new, state-of-the-art integrated maritime surveillance system will be developed in the Aegean Sea, as the European Internal Security Fund  has decided to grant Greece €50 million to develop the system. Once deployed, the new surveillance system will allow the...

The defense ministers of Greece and Turkey, Evangelos Apostolakis and Hulusi Akar, met together on Wednesday in Brussels. The ministers were both in the capital city for a ministerial summit among NATO members. The meeting lasted for approximately 30 minutes...

In a competition organized by the Panhellenic Union of Young Farmers in Greece's Livadia, Larazos Semertzidis won the first place and became Greece's best farmer of 2018. Semertzidis is a 33-years-old farmer from Xirolimni village near the West Macedonia's city of...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that at his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday -- scheduled on the sidelines of the NATO Summit meetings -- he raised the issue of Turkish escalation of tension in the...

German Chancellor Angela Markel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pledged to offer assistance for the asylum services and with Frontex at the Greek-Turkish and Greek-Bulgarian borders during a quadrilateral meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Bulgaria's premier...

European creditors have raised concerns about the implementation of the Greek program at the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) meeting on Monday in Brussels. The meeting discussed the third program review ahead of the informal Eurogroup to be held on September 15...

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Deputy Giorgos Chouliarakis and Labor Minister Efi Achtsioglou flew urgently to Brussels on Tuesday morning in order to unlock bailout review talks with creditors. The Greek government is making a last-minute effort to reach a...

  Energy and Environment Minister George Stathakis will join the Greek negotiating team in Brussels, ministry sources told the Athens-Macedonian news Agency on Tuesday, without specifying the date. Stathakis is currently in Berlin where he participated in the Berlin Energy Transition...

Monday's Eurogroup in Brussels confirms that the return of Greece's lenders to Athens is not likely; the new round of negotiations in Athens have been postponed for the moment and further negotiations are to continue in Brussels. Eurogroup chief Jeroen...

Cyprus government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides called President Nicos Anastasiades' meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday in Brussels "constructive." In the meeting held on the sidelines of the EU Summit, the two top officials focused on five issues,...