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Fearing the potential impact of Greece eventually exiting the Eurozone on the French economy, President Francois Hollande held a secret meeting with the German Social Democratic Party leaders behind Angela Merkel’s back in 2012, NSA intercepts show. The NSA intelligence...

“Orlean,” a feature film by famous Russian director Andrey Proshkin and award-winning screenwriter Yuriy Arabov attracted much attention in Moscow, while the fact that a Greek actress stars in the film has made Greeks in the Russian capital proud. A...

Russia is planning to hold a discussion with the European Commission, and in particular with Commissioner for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic, about the infrastructure construction outlook for transporting natural gas via the TurkStream and its extension, the South European...

New Democracy circles reiterated on Tuesday their proposal for a national consensus to achieve a different policy mix which would be fiscally sustainable, growth-friendly and socially fair. The party also criticized the government’s handling of the ongoing negotiations with Greece...

We achieved the most balanced agreement taken into account the circumstances," Greek Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis on Wednesday said in statements to Mega TV. The Minister described the measures "balanced" because as he said "lenders initially demanded direct pensions and...

The Greek government's proposal, in order to make a deal with the country’s creditors, was accompanied by taxes amounting to 7.9 billion euros, while the taxes on the two previous bailout programs amounted to 7.7 billion euros in total. The...

The European Central Bank is the institution that can be forced to pull the trigger on Greece if negotiations with creditors do not lead to an agreement, says a Financial Times report. Greek banks rely entirely on the ECB to...

Even though a small country like Greece is rarely featured on the front page of prestigious British magazine The Economist, after the crisis broke more than six years ago, Greece has had the… honor of being on the magazine's cover not...

Greece's creditors differ on certain items on the list of proposed measures Athens has presented while they are worried about final parliamentary approval. The troika of Greece's creditors -- the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary...

A Clinton Foundation conference and reception that was to take place in Athens, Greece has been cancelled due to alleged fears of political cost to Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy. According to a Politico feature, the lavish Clinton Global Ιnitiative event...

The number of charter flights to six regional airports in Greece has dropped by 2%, according to Greek Travel Pages (GTP) quoting a report released by the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA). The local airports of Rhodes, Chania, Heraklion, Thessaloniki, Corfu and Kos...

Explore TripAdvisor's list of top ten historic sites and landmarks worth visiting in Greece, based on travelers' votes. Get your ticket, fasten your seatbelt and follow us on a quick but refreshing trip to Greece. Acropolis Acropolis is one of the most famous and...

  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will fly to Brussels on Wednesday to meet with European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and two top European Union officials to discuss...

The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) has announced three winners of the 2015 award who, in addition to sharing prize funding of up to €1,000,000, will be provided with an expert mentor and a range of business support services.

Presenting a new shelter set up in Athens to house unaccompanied children that enter Greece as migrants, Greek Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou praised on Tuesday the initiative by the Ioannis. S. Latsis Foundation and the non-governmental organization...