Greece

Three patients succumbed to COVID-19 on Friday in Greece, bringing the total number of fatalities from the virus to 160. A 73-year-old woman died at Nimitz Hospital and a 57-year-old at Evangelismos Hospital. A 37-year old man also died in...

About 5,000 people in a Roma settlement in Nea Smyrni, Larissa were put in quarantine on Thursday evening after 20 people were found to be infected by the covid-19 coronavirus. On Thursday afternoon, a 32-year-old Roma man tested positive for the...

The atmosphere in Giannitsa, northern Greece, early on Sunday morning was volatile as residents tried to prevent buses carrying 100-150 migrants and refugees from settling in an area hotel. According to a SKAI TV report, about 30 locals blocked the road,...

Greece's Ministry of Culture issued a statement on Friday, informing the public about the important results of a recent archaeological excavation conducted on Crete. The most recent dig was were undertaken on the tiny islet of Chrysi (Gold) off the...

Residents of the small village of Vrasna, northeast of Thessaloniki, forced Greek authorities on Tuesday to abandon plans to house approximately 400 migrants and refugees in local hotels. Local residents blocked the road at the outskirts of the seaside village...

The Greek Ministry of Culture announced on Tuesday that archaeologists have recently uncovered an ancient settlement on southern Evia, believed to date from the 6th century BC. The remains of the ancient settlement, discovered near the town of Karystos, are...

Significant finds that include an extensive early Christian church and early Byzantine buildings, as well as monumental structures from a much-older ancient sanctuary, have been unearthed by archaeologists on the rocky islet called Vryokastraki, opposite the ancient city of...

According to an announcement issued on Friday by Greece's Ministry of Culture, important discoveries have been unearthed near the town of Karystos on Greece's Evia (Euboea) Island. The announcement reveals that a systematic, two-year-long excavation in the Gourimadi area, on...

The last five years of archaeological research and excavation in central Greece's Petroto village, near the Trikala area, has unearthed a major settlement that dates back to the late Bronze Age. The archaeologists, led by Maria Vaiopoulou, the Karditsa Ephorate of...

A Greek private services company with arrears of nearly €700,000 ($870,000) became the first business to reach a settlement under a new out-of-court process for outstanding debts. The Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) reports that the unnamed company had outstanding debts...

An unnamed company became the first entity in Greece to settle its debts to the state and restructure through an extra-judicial mechanism, Ministry of Finance sources said on Friday. The case concerned a bilateral negotiation for debts to the national...

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades reiterated on Sunday the readiness of the Greek Cypriot side to immediately resume negotiations, underlining at the same time the need for the international Conference on Cyprus to be well prepared. He also assured that...

The President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades said that he will probe the possibility over a new initiative for a Cyprus settlement, during the UN General Assembly next September in New York. Speaking on Tuesday morning in the village Prodromos, President...

Only a few dozen refugees will be resettled from Germany to Greece in what Minister of Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas called a ‘symbolic gesture’. Speaking to SKAI TV, Mousalas defended the move saying that it stems from the EU Dublin...

For the first time since 2011, Germany will again begin the resettlement of refugees to Greece under the EU Dublin Regulation. Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas confirmed on German television that Greece will accept refugees who are currently in Germany...