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For thousands of migrants coming to Greece from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Victoria Square in central Athens, will be their home until they find money and papers to start their journey to Northern Europe. The refugees that have flooded the...

The president of the Lesvos Hoteliers Association Pericles Antoniou sent a letter to interim Finance Minister Giorgos Chouliarakis and Tourism Minister Nikos Christodoulakis describing the damage caused to tourism because of the refugee influx. In his letter Antoniou stresses that...

Former HSBC Bank employee Hervé Falciani gave a USB stick with eight names of alleged tax evaders to the four Greek prosecutors who took his testimony at the Greek Embassy in Paris. According to information from an anonymous source at the...

The close race in opinion polls ahead of Sunday's elections continues, with a new survey showing conservative New Democracy leading over leftist SYRIZA by half a percentage point. The new poll by Pulse for Action 24 television, was conducted after...

Popular Unity and the PASOK-DIMAR alliance started the major pre-election rallies in the Greek capital on Tuesday evening. Less than eight months after the party campaigns that culminated in the January 25 election, the people of Athens are gathering again...

The Embassy of Canada is honoured to announce the participation of Canada’s former Governor General, the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson at the 3rd Athens Democracy Forum, September 13-15, 2015 as a keynote speaker. Madame Clarkson’s keynote address, which will...

The exhibition "Zythognosia" dedicated to high quality beers is being organized for a second consecutive year in Athens on October 17 and 18 at the multi-purpose venue "The Hub Events." According to an announcement, the exhibition will host breweries and...

Greek authorities announced the arrest of seven alleged traffickers considered responsible for the fatal migrant crossing that ended in tragedy on Sunday morning, when the wooden sailboat used to transport upward of 100 refugees overturned due to bad weather...

At a White House meeting Tuesday with Spain's King Felipe VI, President Barack Obama said the entire world has to pitch in to help the migrants. "We agreed that this is going to require cooperation with all the European countries...

European Union nations remain deeply divided on how to deal with the influx of migrants that is not showing signs of slowing down. Hundreds of migrants remain trapped Tuesday as Hungary closed its border with Serbia, and Germany continued to...

The QS website included six Greek Universities in its 2015/2016 World University Rankings. These six Greek institutions ranked globally known table. Specifically, the National Technical University (NTUA) ranked 376th, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ranked 461-470th, University of Crete 501-550, National...

The Greeks Men's Basketball Team FIBA Eurobasket 2015 bid ended with a 73-71 nerve-wracking loss to Spain on Tuesday evening in the quarterfinals round. The Greeks came back from a 7 point deficit at the beginning of the second half...

The European Commission plans to provide Greece with the 30 million euros for the country's efforts to deal with the ongoing refugee crisis. European Commission spokesperson Margaritis Shinas said that the Greek Interior Minister submitted all the necessary documents for...

European Sustainability Academy (ESA) will host the 3rd Annual Women Empowerment Conference, September 25 through 26, in Chania, Crete. The conference will give women entrepreneurs the opportunity to contact influential business people around the globe. "Against the backdrop of the...

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris alleged through a tweet that he has found two Greek islands that he could potentially purchase to host refugees. Sawiris, who is worth an estimated 2.9 billion dollars according to Forbes, had expressed his interest in...