Greece

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The first aircraft hijacking in Greece took place during the Civil War on September 12th, 1948 when six pro-communist students who wanted passage to Yugoslavia, hijacked a plane that was traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki. Alexandros Koufoudakis, 21, Dimitrios Koufoudakis, 23,...

Christos Staikouras, the Greek Finance Minister, expressed on Sunday his belief that the Greek economy will shrink by four percent in 2020 due to the reduction of economic activity the coronavirus pandemic has brought upon the country. Speaking with Greece's...

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt has unveiled the #USGreece2021 logo which the US government will use for all its programming in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Greece’s independence. “I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished over the past...

Legendary Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 103, actively supported the United States' aid efforts for Greece in the midst of the catastrophic Civil War in the late 1940s. Douglas can be seen...

The scope of China's challenge to the American-led order is described in two unpublished and unclassified studies commissioned by the US Air Force, in which Greece is presented as China's Trojan Horse into Europe. It is no secret that Washington,...

Speaking on Bloomberg from Davos, George Soros said that the European Union is facing an existential crisis and that the refugee crisis is leading to the collapse of the European Union. He also commented on the ongoing Greek debt drama...

Greece's finance minister Constantinos Karamanlis signs the agreement for the German debt write off Germany could show some good behavior and write off a part of greek debt like Greece did for Germany in 1953. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' speech...

Josephine Witt, the 21-year-old activist whose confetti attack frightened European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi, talks exclusively to Greek Reporter about her protest, how she sees Greece and what she believes about Europe's future. From our conversation, two...

A documentary about Greece in the aftermath of the Civil War and World War II that was found in the United Nations archives in 2007 will be shown on October 30, at 8:00 pm at the National Archives headquarters in Psychiko, Athens....

“From the beginning, our state had no other choice than to live on credit. We were born in debt.” - Gerassimos Notaras, head archivist, historical archive, National Bank of Greece The debt history of Greece begins well before an official Greek...

The former president of Germany, Roman Herzog, in an interview to the newspaper Handelsblatt, claimed that democracy wasn't born in Greece. When the journalist mentioned that the trump card of Greece is the birth of democracy, the German politician said...

By Ioannis Patrikakis* The current state of affairs in the Euro zone clashes with the basic principles of Aristotelian Ethics philosophy. Aristotle is describing a "flourishing state of the mind," (Evdaimonia), as the perfect aspiration for all human beings. After...

The U.S. has decided to permanently close its consular offices in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, as part of government budget cuts, the outgoing Consul-General Marsha Lance said during a meeting held in Katerini, at the Conference Centre of...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is trying to persuade his reluctant coalition partners to go along with a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan, the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras...