Greece

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...

Greek is used in every language throughout the world. This Spanish oldie by an Argentinian musical group called Apurimac, featuring Greek singer Elli Paspala, is living proof that there indeed are thousands of Greek words in every language. Apurimac created...

A Spanish student who hosted a large party in Thessaloniki, a city in northern Greece, on Wednesday was handed a suspended sentence and hefty fine for breaking the country's lockdown rules. The 21-year-old exchange student, who claimed she was unaware...

Police on the Greek island of Mykonos broke up a gigantic party which had as many as 500 revelers at a rented villa in the area of Ftelia early on Thursday morning. Local sources tell Greek media that there were...

At least four elegant horse-drawn carriages, among them one used during the wedding of Queen Sophia and King Juan Carlos of Spain at their Athens nuptials in 1962, have been discovered at the former royal estate of Tatoi in...

Greece has shown on Friday its solidarity and support to the Spanish people who are suffering from the coronavirus pandemic by hoisting the Spanish flag at the Greek Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The symbolic act came as...

The Spanish Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will represent Greece and its Premier Alexis Tsipras at the European Council meeting on Tuesday, as the Greek Prime Minister has to return to Greece for his pre-election obligations ahead of the...

Greek tennis champion Stefanos Tsitsipas lost to Novak Djokovic in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open on Sunday evening. Despite his strength and passion, Tsitsipas wasn't able to bring the Serbian champion down and lost 2-0, scoring 3-6 and...

  Manolo Jimenez, the Spanish coach who led AEK to its first championship title in 24 years last season, has signed a contract to return for a third stint at the Athenian football club. Jimenez, who is expected to sign an...

Greek league champions AEK have parted company with their Spanish coach Manolo Jimenez despite his guiding the team to its first title in 24 years. According news reports, Jimenez had demanded a significant salary hike to sign a new contract, but...

After only three months at the helm of Greek champions Olympiacos, Spanish coach Oscar Garcia announced he is leaving the Piraeus club. “I decided, with the agreement of the club, to finish our cooperation today to give the team more...

A group of protesters in favor of Catalonian independence forcibly entered the Spanish embassy in Athens on Wednesday morning. About 15 to 20 members of the anarchist group, Rubicon (Rouvikonas) entered the embassy, at Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, near the Acropolis, and...

The parliaments of Austria, Latvia and Spain approved the third Greek bailout package on Monday. The Eurogroup had approved the program on Friday. The 86 billion euros will be dispensed from international creditors to Greece over a three-year period. 50 Latvian MPs voted in...

A third bailout package for Greece amounting between 30 and 50 billion euros is currently being envisaged by the Eurozone member-states' Finance Ministers, according to Spanish Finance Minister Louis de Guindos. As de Guindos highlighted, the terms of the third...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused the Spanish government of attempting to overthrow the Greek government, in the Sunday edition of the Spanish newspaper La Razon (March 1). The article focused on Tsipras’ speech during a party meeting, where he...