Greek News

Various events took place in Athens during the week of May 5, 2014, in memory of the Greek Pontic genocide by the Ottoman Empire under Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal during World War I. The aftermath during 1914–1923, claimed aproximately...

The Greek magazine “The Reader” organized a book conference on the profile of the Greek Reader. The conference was held in Thessaloniki during the 11th Thessaloniki International Book Fair. According to data provided by public libraries, 75 percent of Greek...

The theme of this year’s International Museum Day, which is on May 18, 2014, is “Museum collections make connections.” The Athens Organization of Culture Youth and Sports will participate in the celebration with various events at the city's most important...

New facts have emerged about the European sovereign debt crisis and Greece’s recourse to the European stability mechanism in 2010, as former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn revealed Friday on French TV channel France 2 that former Greek...

Prices of lower-rated eurozone bonds fell on Friday, deepening sharp falls on Thursday caused, Reuters said, by nervousness about the stability of the Greek government, a tax on foreign holders of Greek bonds and weak growth.  "The rally in peripheral government...

The general rehearsal for the transmission of the first round in the local elections was successfully completed. The first estimation on the results is anticipated to be transmitted at 11 p.m. Leading authorities of the Ministry of Interior watched as...

Three Friday polls on Greece's local and European elections gave three different results. ALCO's poll for newspaper Proto Thema gave main opposition party SYRIZA a 1.5% lead in European Parliament elections over Nea Dimokratia, whose Antonis Samaras is considered the most popular political leader. According to the...

Greek police arrested members of three criminal gangs believed to be responsible for a recent spate of armed robberies in the Attica region. Police arrested a 25-year-old male member of a gang that allegedly committed nine armed robberies and attempted robberies in...

Former Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker, a candidate for European Commission President, said after a debate with rivals for the post that Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras wasn't fit to lead his country...

Greek authorities announced on Friday, that they are to extradite a wanted criminal to Canada in order for him to stand trial on charges of being involved in counterfeiting Canadian passports and quarterbacking cocaine drug deals. Robby Alkhalil, who is...

Nikos Fokas has won first prize in the Handbook of the Birds of the World photo contest, bagging a prize worth 6,800 euros in equipment and subscriptions. The photo depicts a pallid swift (scientific name : apus pallidus), a migratory...

Numerous Australians are expected to visit the Gallipoli peninsula in April 2015, to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC) landing during World War I, and to honor the victims killed by the...

Greece's economy shrank by 1.1% in the first quarter of 2014, said Greece's Finance Ministry May 15, citing ELSTAT data. Last year, the recession shaved 6% from Greece's gross domestic product (GDP), according to ELSTAT, so this year's data indicates that Greece may now be close...

A newly founded Greek publishing house in Istanbul will be reviving the long multicultural tradition of Greek literature in the former Byzantine capital city by translating and distributing on the Turkish book market Greek literature. Istos, which stands in Greek...

The First Instance Court of Athens has annulled the dismissal of 397 cleaning staff from the Greek Ministry of Finance, as their suspension was deemed unconstitutional. According to the court's decision the cleaners must be reinstated in their positions immediately,...