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“As you would expect from the leader of Greece’s radical left opposition party, Alexis Tsipras has many pungent criticisms of eurozone economic policy: demand is too weak; fiscal discipline too severe; debt repayments too high; and, consequently, growth is...

Michalis Chrysochoidis, the Greek Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, visited the archaeological site of Alikyrna near Missolonghi in western Greece, where an ancient city was recently unearthed during construction work for Ionia Odos. The ancient city, located next to...

Residents of Orestiada, in Greece's northern prefecture of Thrace, warmly welcomed Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who began on a four-day visit to the area on Saturday. Bartholomew was welcomed at the Orestiada Square by Metropolitan Damaskinos of Didymoticho, political, church and...

While evidence shows that archaeologists are one step away from uncovering the “big secret” of Amphipolis, Greece,  people are speculating on who is buried under Casta hill. Archaeologists and other world experts have supported different theories on who is the...

"In comparison with previous years, we see increased interest for the participation of Greek enterprises that have come here in London. The market acknowledges there have been great changes in the Greek economy, both structural and fiscal. Changes that...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met on Friday night with BP Group Chief Executive Robert Dudley during his visit to Baku as one of several country leaders attending events related to the natural gas pipeline in Azerbaijan. Earlier, Samaras attended a...

Model and actress Kelly Brook has been taking to social media the last few days, sharing her admiration for Greece through Instagram photos. The 34-year-old star of the upcoming NBC series "One Big Happy," is in Mykonos and has visited the beaches, local...

Lady Gaga and her long-anticipated concert took place tonight in Athens, Greece. Holding one of the most desired tickets, fans gathered in the Athens Olympic Stadium to admire the popular and eccentric pop singer's performance that started at 9 pm. A...

Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis talked to Bloomberg TV’s Guy Johnson on Friday and stated that Greece is likely to resort to emergency loans in 2015 and 2016 in order to exit from the terms of its bailout. "The IMF doesn’t want to lend alone;...

Outstanding debts to the Greek state hit a record high, reaching 69.24 billion euros in August, compared to 68 billion euros in July 2014. The amount of debts to the state is still huge, although 2.8 million citizens paid owed taxes in...

For yet another year, the International Short Film Festival in Drama presented some of Greece's newest and most interesting short films, as well as some significant foreign productions. The support residents of the Greek city of Drama have offered to the festival, has...

Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded to statements made by 19 Greek mayors, who have insisted that they will not permit the review of work contracts that changed the status of municipal personnel from contract workers to payroll employees. On Thursday,...

George Gasteratos, a man from the island of Corfu in western Greece, is the Greek look-alike of the Hollywood star Ryan Gosling. In fact, the resemblance is so uncanny that if Gasteratos were to live in the US, some think he could work as Gosling's double. "I...

Greece holds a unique record in Europe: six in ten Greeks own some sort of real estate property, with the total value of their assets reaching 520.5 billion euros. According to Imerisia newspaper, the total assessed value of real property...

For the first time in eight years, Greece will see positive growth rates in the third quarter of the year, Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis revealed on Thursday. Speaking during a ceremony for the signing of a loan agreement with the European...