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Greek Elections: New Democracy Slightly Ahead, SYRIZA Loses Young Vote

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...

Greek Elections: Parties Start Major Pre-Election Rallies in Athens

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...

Former Governor-General of Canada to Speak at Athens Democracy Forum on Migration

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...

Free Top Quality Beer at Zythognosia Exhibition

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...

Seven Alleged Traffickers Arrested for Sunday's Fatal Migrant Shipwreck Near Farmakonissi

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...

Obama Speaks Out on EU Migrant Crisis

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...

Europe Remains Divided on How to Deal With Migrants

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...

Six Greek Universities Ranked in the 2015/2016 QS World University Rankings

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...

Spain Eliminates Greece from FIBA Euorbasket 2015

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...

European Commission to Disburse 30 Mln Euros to Greece for Refugee Crisis

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...

Annual Women's Empowerment Conference on the Island of Crete

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 Claims to Have Found Two Potential Greek Islands for Refugees

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...

Farmers from Northern Greece to Demonstrate on Election Day

Farmers from northern Greece will be position themselves at polling stations to protest on election day, Sunday September 20, announced the head of the nationwide coordinating committee of farmers and stockbreeders Christos Gondias. Gondias spoke to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency,...

New Website Helps Greek Diaspora Children Learn Greek

Ellinopoula.com is a web-based educational platform catering to the needs of Greek Diaspora children and parents, focusing on building and maintaining Greek language skills through entertainment and other methods. The website's founders wished to create an on-line fun place that Greek kids...

Eurostat: Greek Employment Rises

Employment growth in Eurozone accelerated marginally for the second straight quarter in the three months ended June, figures from Eurostat showed Tuesday. Employment rose a seasonally adjusted 0.3 percent in the second quarter, following a 0.2 percent climb in the...