Greece

Government spokesperson Stelios Petsas on Tuesday announced that Greece's Foreign Ministry has sent letters to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the presidency of the Security Council on Monday, in which it outlines Greece's positions on the Turkish-Libyan...

More than 700 migrants and asylum seekers have landed on several Greek islands from Turkey over the weekend, as PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Ankara on Sunday not to coerce Greece and Europe over the explosive issue. At east 207 migrants...

Turkey on Thursday warned Greece for allegedly conducting an illegal joint military exercise with Egypt at the Greek island of Rhodes. In a written statement, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said it learned that Greece and Egypt are conducting a joint amphibian...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has said that the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot side have agreed on a definition as regards the issue of the legal domicile and exercising the four EU fundamental freedoms by the citizens of...

The Greek Health Ministry on Monday announced the formation of a working group consisting of  academics, psychiatrists, and scientific and legal advisers of the prime minister, health ministry and the justice ministry and members of patient associations, to initiate...

The proposal of Greek Education Minister Nikos Filis to legalize 2,500 public sector employees who were hired using forged school degrees has caused an uproar among opposition parties. Reportedly, Filis stated that the 2,500 people who had been hired in...

Three mosques are operating legally in Athens at the moment after getting licenses in the past two years, and many more illegally according to a Kathimerini report. The Hamza mosque at the Victoria Square area started operating in the summer...

A five-year-old female bear, possibly pregnant, has been rescued after becoming trapped in an illegal wire snare and almost suffocating to death, the environmental bear conservation group 'Callisto' reported on Monday. The group was called in to the Siatista,...

At the presentation of an ancient marble head depicting the god Hermes, returned to Greece on Monday from Bonhams auction house as the product of illegal antiquities smuggling, Greek Alternate Culture Minister Nikos Xydakis said it is proof of what...

The Greek Environment, Energy and Climate Change Ministry said it will rush to reduce the number of illegal landfills around Greece, in order to reduce the imminent fine imposed by the European Commission, the ministry’s general secretary said. The European...

The Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens, Greece ruled on Friday that the strike of Public Power Corporation (PPC) employees' union GENOP is illegal, also finding part of its claims abusive. The ruling comes following a motion by...

Arriving at a meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he would "push" for solutions to the problems of illegal immigration and youth unemployment. As he said to reporters "We're here to push for more...

The presidents of labor unions described the gloomy picture of unemployment in Northern Greece at a meeting which took place in  Thessaloniki in the framework of the TIF. As they said, illegal and uninsured work reigns, while unemployment rates have...

Greeks who've paid penalties to the government for building homes without permits - in return for which they were allowed to save them from demolition - are in limbo after the Council of State, the country's highest court, said...

State-owned real estate worth billions of euros is being arbitrarily and illegally used by people or companies without any real authorization to do so, newspaper Kathimerini reported two days ago. A report by the Hellenic Commission for the Privatization of...