Greece

Carlos Vera from Ecuador will be holding the whistle in Greece’s final group stage game against Ivory Coast on Tuesday. Earlier in the tournament, Carlos Vera who is celebrating on Monday his 38th birthday, supervised the match between Iran and Nigeria. It was quoted...

The Cervantes Institute of Athens, in cooperation with the Argentinian and Ecuadorian Embassies in Greece, will be presenting a new series of 5 film productions from the two Latin American countries. The screenings will take place on January 17, 24...

After Constantinople, a city first settled by ancient Greeks in the 7th century BC as Byzantium, fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, many Greeks made their way to European countries, including Spain. There, some flourished in the Spanish...

A British mother took off for a Greek vacation with her children against the advice of the UK, which has placed Greece on its "Amber List"

As the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic on Friday jumped over the 10,000 mark, Greece, which has recorded nine deaths, strengthened its measures against the spread by announcing that all hotels which operate on a 12-month basis...

Hellenic Police announced on Thursday morning that they have broken up a criminal group that is accused of smuggling large quantities of cocaine using sailboats in different parts of the world. The investigation was completed in cooperation with the Ecuadorian...

Greece's Piraeus Bank and twenty-five other leading global lenders from five continents are re-defining financial institutions’ purpose and business model to align the sector with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement, the lender announced...

Greek Government Deputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis proposed sanctioning debt restrictions within the framework of the Greek Constitution. Taking part in the first conference of the sub-committee of Greek Parliament's Committee of Economic Affairs focused on debt and debt...

Greek swimming legend Spiros Gianniotis won a Silver medal for Greece in the gruelling 10k open-water swimming event in Rio. After chartering through an Olympic course  that avoids Brazil's most controversial waters, Gianniotis proved that he had the endurance required...

A metamorphosis is in progress, which aims to erode the principle of democracy and reduce nation-authority forever...... The idea of reducing the powers of democratically elected governments has been surreptitiously under planning for years. It goes as far back as...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a brief encounter with US President Barack Obama during the United Nations General Assembly week. President Obama approached the Greek Prime Minister during a lunch, hosted by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on September...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with a number of national leaders on Monday, during his participation in the United Nations General Assembly's annual General Debate that is taking place in New York. He met with Cuban President Raul Castro who invited...

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has found another cause to devote himself. He has become a WikiLeaks supporter, helping the international, non-profit, journalistic organization to crowd-source 100,000 euros. The organization plans to use this amount in order to uncover the...

By Odette Lienau The financial brinkmanship over Greece’s debts has raised the question of whether (or when) the country will default. To be sure, it would be far better for Greece and its creditors to reach a negotiated solution. But...

Greek high school student Nefeli Stefopoulou was one of ten winners at the worldwide Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change competition. Her project managed to stand out among thousands of participants from 100 countries. This year's 10 winners represented Greece, Chile, Ecuador,...