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Deputy Minister of Finance Nadia Valavani announced on Wednesday that a new exceptional measure for the repayment of old tax debts in 100 installments will be added in the government’s draft bill on humanitarian aid that was tabled in...

Students, academics, authors, actors and journalists will participate in the 4th International Student Conference “Georgios Vizyinos. The Road to Istanbul” in order to approach the life and work of the great Greek novelist, poet and scholar Georgios Vizyinos. The...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday that there could be a more flexible approach to Greece ΄s debt crisis but recent elections have not changed the fundamental situation. "Elections do not change treaties," Juncker said in an interview with...

Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis reacted strongly to a police document that circulated on Tuesday regarding "new policy on migrant detention procedures." The document states that illegal immigrants arrested in the Greek borders will not be detained but...

Greece has been devastated by the disappearance of 20-year-old student Vangelis Giakoumakis, who has been missing for almost a month since February 6. Greek journalist and writer Elena Akrita addressed a letter to Greek Deputy Minister of Public Order,...

The Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy ministry is working with Greece 's Public Power Corporation (PPC) on a plan to lower electricity rates, government sources said on Tuesday. Responding to media criticism of a decision to improve the pay package...

The Greek Communist Party (KKE) submitted on Tuesday a draft law denouncing the loan facility agreements signed by Greece and its partners in the EU from 2010 to date and abolishes the two memoranda and Medium-Term Financial Strategy Frameworks...

The trial of former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou on charges of tampering with possible tax evasion evidence continued on Tuesday with witnesses taking the stand including former colleagues and ministry staff. Papaconstantinou is on trial on allegations of striking...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble maintained his hard stance on Greece by warning his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis to not change the terms of the bailout extension agreement. Speaking to German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung, Mr. Schauble said that the burden of...

A little over a month in the Maximos Mansion and it seems that the Greek government officials are in constant competition with each other over who is going to sound more leftist, more "for the people," who commiserates more,...

A former Greek-British Royal Marines member became the first Briton to be killed fighting alongside the Kurdish forces against the jihadist Islamic state in Syria, according to BBC. The 25-year-old soldier, Konstandinos Erik Scurfield died on Tuesday March 3 after...

According to the latest post-election poll with 1,009 respondents, conducted on behalf of star.gr, leftist SYRIZA remains in the lead with a 22.1 percentage point difference over center-right New Democracy. Asked “what party would you vote for if elections were...

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos announced on Tuesday he submitted two files relating to arms procurement to a public prosecutor in order to investigate possible bribery or corruption. "For two of the cases we already have evidence - very...

The Greek Accounting Office has received the government's bill to address the humanitarian crisis, which is the first to be tabled by newly elected SYRIZA. The bill includes measures for feeding, housing and providing electricity to households classified as "very...

Greek main opposition New Democracy leader and former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is preparing his armory for the upcoming critical meeting of the party's Parliamentary Group on Thursday, where he is expected to go under friendly fire and his leadership...