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entertainment
Greek Director Costas Gavras: 'Some People don't want Tsipras to Succeed'
There are some people who don’t want Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his government to succeed in Europe because they prefer to have “yes-men,” award-winning Greek-French film director and producer Costas Gavras told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency in an...
Economy
Institutions: 'Greece Will Need A Third Aid Package'
Greece will need a third bailout package this summer in order to avoid a potential default, sources close to the institutions involved in European negotiations have told German daily newspaper Die Welt.
European creditors believe that even if Greece receives the current...
Economy
Negotiation Between Greece and its Creditors Is Entering the Final Phase
The negotiation between Greece and its creditors is entering its final phase and since last week, the government has issued specific directions to its representatives at the Brussels Group to speed up the process, it was announced on Saturday.
The Greek government...
Australia
The Man who Quit the Greek Army to Become the Souvlaki ‘King’ of Melbourne
Thomas Deliopoulos resigned from the Greek army four years ago and travelled to Australia, where he settled in Melbourne, opening "Kalimera Souvlaki Art," a Greek restaurant that now serves around 1,500 skewers a day.
Deliopoulos joined the army at the age of 17. After...
Cyprus
US and Russia Hail Resumption of Cyprus Negotiations
The United States has hailed the resumption of negotiations on the Cyprus problem, reaffirming its readiness to help the process.
A US State Department official, responding to a question, said the US welcomed the start of talks between the Greek-Cypriot...
Greece
French MEP Mélenchon: Greece Used as an Example to Show 'How Those who Resist Are Treated'
French MEP Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in an interview to French newspaper "l'Humanite," explained that the reason why he decided to support Greece in his book "Le Hareng de Bismarck" is Europe's stance toward Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
Mélenchon said that he...
Archaeology
Pavlopetri: The Ancient Greek Underwater City
Pavlopetri is an ancient Greek city that has been submerged off the coast of southern Laconia in Peloponnese, Greece, by a series of consecutive earth tremors around 1,000 BCE and consists the oldest underwater archaeological town site in the world,...
Greece
Greek Main Opposition Ready to Help Provided SYRIZA Leaves Obsessions Behind
Greek main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, in an interview to Sunday's Ethnos newspaper, left the possibility for cooperation with the government open provided that SYRIZA leaves its obsessions behind.
He underlined that if the government needs help, New Democracy...
Europe
Thomas Cook Wins £3.5 Million After Children’s Death in Corfu
Travel agency Thomas Cook won £3.5 million in compensation for loss of profits and other expenses after the tragic deaths of two British children in Corfu in 2006.
Bobby and Christi Shepherd died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty...
Art
Greek Art and Culture Transmitted at Spring Art Exhibition & Sale
The Greek Artists Guild held their Spring Art Exhibition & Sale on Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26, at the Stathakion Center of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of New York in Astoria. Greece's Consul General in New York George Iliopoulos and his...
Education
Ivan Savvidis to Support University of Athens Slavic Studies Dept
Greek-Russian businessman and politician Ivan Savvidis was warmly greeted by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Meletios-Athanasios Dimopoulos, on the occasion of Saints Cyril and Methodius Celebration on May 11.
A month ago, the Charitable Foundation of...
Economy
Greek State Minister: "The Agreement with Creditors Must Be Realistic"
"The agreement must be realistic and implementable. But mainly to define the new day for the country, the restart of the Greek economy and growth," Greek State Minister Nikos Pappas said in an interview with newspaper 'Efimerida ton Syntakton' on...
Greece
European Commission: "Greece is One of the Greatest Concerns of the Eurozone"
Athens must speed up its reform efforts and present a "comprehensive and credible" list of reforms, the European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said, describing Greece as "one of the greatest concerns of the eurozone."
"The Greek government must prepare a...
Greece
Main Opposition Lashes Out at Greek PM Tsipras
Greece's main opposition New Democracy party on Saturday lashed out at Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after his speech at a conference organized by the Economist.
The main opposition accused the Greek Prime Minister of "lying" for Greece's economic situation when...
Greece
New Leads for Ben Needham 24 Years After His Disappearance
A team of South Yorkshire Police detectives travelled to Greece seeking to leverage new findings in order to unlock a new cycle of research about Ben Needham, the toddler from Sheffield who went missing in the Greek island of Kos...