Greece

Tolis Voskopoulos, one of the most popular singers in modern Greece, will give a concert to mark 60 years of unprecedented success in the country's music industry. Voskopoulos known for his passionate and romantic laika songs will appear in front...

Three years imprisonment with parole have been imposed on Greek singer Tolis Voskopoulos, regarding suspicion of tax evasion. The punishment was imposed by an Athens Misdemeanor Court as the singer declared he was unable to pay EUR 5,5 million in taxes, including...

Just as Greece has promised to go after tax cheats, fines imposed on a once-popular singer found to have evaded 5.5 million euros ($7.5 million) in taxes have been annulled by a Greek court, setting up another round of...

The Greek dance Zeibekiko is one of the country's most iconic dances, and although women do dance Zeibekiko, it is considered to be highly masculine. Although Zeibekiko was once strictly a man’s dance, women have begun to take part in...

Asteras Vouliagmenis, the emblematic resort of the Athens Riviera, re-opens on March 29 as Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens to revive its glory on a new level of luxury. The renovated resort operated by Four Seasons offers visitors three...

The popular Greek singer Yannis Kalatzis, famous especially during the 60s and the 70s has died at the age of 74. Yannis Kalatzis was born in Thessaloniki in 1943 and his career as a singer began in the early 1960s...

Tzeni Vanou, one of the most popular Greek singers of all time lost her battle with cancer on Wednesday. During the last few months she was in an Athens hospital where she had undergone a surgery to remove a...

Greece's Finance Ministry has admitted what everybody in Greece already knew: the government has been playing favorites with VIP's and allowing them to dodge taxes, with inspectors checking with supervisors before deciding how to handle the case of people...

For a second time in two months, Greek fashion designer Lakis Gavalas has been convicted of evading taxes, and for a second time has dodged jail. An Athens misdemeanors court on July 19 passed down a five-year suspended prison...

Continuing to show leniency toward major tax cheats while hammering workers, pensioners and the poor with pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, a Greek court on June 21 found fashion entrepreneur Lakis Gavalas guilty of owing some 17...

With antiquated record keeping, court cases backed up a decade, and tax cheats still running rampant during a crushing economic crisis, Greece is planning to use the same kind of cross-referencing and collection techniques that make the American Internal...

According to the newspaper Democracy, popular actor, filmmaker and producer, George Kimoulis, is being sought by authorities who issued an arrest warrant for him for failing to pay 200,000 euros ($271,500) in taxes. The paper said he had not contacted...

Nobody is above the law in Greece, except for politicians, the rich, athletes, celebrities, architects, tax evaders, engineers, lawyers, doctors, auto mechanics, fruit and vegetable vendors, street sellers, taxi drivers, truck drivers, hairdressers, organized crime, and everybody else who...

A concert-tribute to the music and valuable artistic ability of Mimis Plessa will take place April 24 at Megaron Concert Hall of Athens. His well-known songs include “O Dromos” (“The Road”) and “Mila moy gia Lefteria” (“Talk to me about Freedom”)....