Greek News

Bastille Day was celebrated in France yesterday, July 14. This year, the grand celebration was combined with the 100th anniversary since the start of the World War I. The president of the French Republic, Francois Hollande, was present during the parade in...

LA Demo Reels, the leading talent-reel production house, and its Greek creative director Konstantinos Mousoulis, held their first public screening of selective works by the Hollywood-based company at the LA Film School on July 8.  The screening included three short films...

There are hundreds of Greek restaurants all over Germany. They typically offer rustic settings and solid – but heavily Germanized – “Greek” food at affordable prices. The standard restaurant design includes light strings, small Greek statues and flags. The...

In a meeting that included Government Vice-President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, as well as Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis on Monday, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras set the issue of accelerating privatizations. Hardouvelis went to the Prime Minister immediately after concluding a 3.5 hour-long meeting with...

A massive explosion took place in the warehouse of a firework factory in Zevgolatio, Peloponnese, southern Greece. The owners and two young children aged 8 and 13 years, were seriously injured and have since been transported to hospitals in Athens. The...

The town of Mykonos island in Greece is the seventh most expensive destination in the world in terms of hotel prices, a survey on the summer 2014 trends for UK travelers showed recently. According to data from hotel comparison website Trivago,...

The most expensive brands in the Greek market, Hermès, Dior, Prada and Louis Vuitton, appear to be doing well in regards to sales and profits, despite the financial crisis that has troubled the country for more than 5 years....

Former Thessaloniki Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos had his life sentence for embezzlement reduced to a maximum of 20 years by a new court ruling today. By a vote of 3 to 2, the five-member Appeals Court ruled that Papageorgopoulos had been...

A study analysis conducted by Fairfax Media showed that three out of ten people in Melbourne speak a language other than English when they return to their homes. In fact, according to the relevant data, 251 languages from all...

Greek authorities on Monday reported a primary budget surplus of 712 million euros in the first six months of the year from a primary deficit of 1.511 billion euros in the corresponding period in 2013. This is 77 million...

Panagiota Fotou is so fed up with bad news on Greek free television that she’s willing to pay for programs that help her forget about her country’s economic woes, as she stated at Bloomberg report. “People are tired of crisis-related...

NICOSIA,(AP) - A group of Cypriots has filed a war crimes complaint against Turkey at the International Criminal Court over what they say is its policy of settling Cyprus' breakaway north with mainland Turks. Cyprus split into a Turkish-speaking north...

The number of defaulting debtors in Greece is growing, and experts are warning that the situation could blow up and smash hopes the country can finally emerge from a crippling six-year recession this year. Greece’s central bank says that non-performing...

Greek Ministry of Culture plans to cooperate with Interpol in a bid to trace some 100 Greek artifacts that have been missing since World War II and the subsequent Greek Civil War, Kathimerini newspaper reported. The initiative comes in the wake...

Summer sales start today and will run until Saturday, August 30. Moreover, retail stores throughout the country will remain open on July 20, the first Sunday of the sales period,  from 11 am to 8 pm. In addition, stores will have...