Greek News

While the island of Crete, Greece, still remains shocked by yesterday’s suicide of Takis Pavlakis, another man has since ended his life with a shotgun. This latest tragic suicide took place in Crete only 24 hours after the suicide of...

The founding congress of Greece's new Elia (Olive Tree) movement trying to unify the country's fractured left broke apart as it began when forces loyal to former prime minister George Papandreou refused to back current PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos...

An unexpected development occurred during the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches and its preparatory meetings held at the Headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul from March 6 to 9, 2014. The delegation of the Antiochian...

Greece's international lenders want an end to the practice of political parties taking money from the state treasury and spending it any way they want and are asking for accountability and transparency in a political system critics said is...

Greek pole vault champion Konstadinos Filippidis won the event at the World Indoor Athletics Championships at Sopot, Germany on March 8, taking advantage of the absence of injured 2012 London Olympic gold medalist Renaud Lavillenie from France, sidelined with...

A Roma couple in Katerini, Greece, have been arrested for presenting as their own a female infant who, DNA testing proved, has no biological relationship to them. According to the Greek police, the couple had managed to obtain a birth certificate for...

The criminal court of Thessaloniki, Greece, has sentenced a huge number of excise officers to life in prison for being involved in cases of illegal VAT refunds. According to lawyers, this was the first time that a criminal court in...

"Germany owes Greece 162 billion euros in total, without calculating the accumulated interest. This amount is precisely calculated, based on the data that the Bank of Greece gave to me,” said one of the most honored and longstanding members...

According to a recent international study, the volcano of the island Santorini, Greece, erupted in the 16th century BC and not earlier. The survey characterized a number of research studies that took place in the past and have indicated...

 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has expressed strong opposition to the potential conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. He was speaking during a debate about whether or not Hagia Sophia should become a mosque, at the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches,...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' vow not to administer more austerity measures has run headlong into demands by international lenders for lower salaries for new hires, no hikes in the already-cut minimum wage and salary cuts for some civil...

More than 3 1/2 years after first receiving it, Greece is speeding the pace of looking into a list of 2,062 citizens with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts and after only 72 inspections has found the depositors...

The Greek communities of Italy have started a travelogue of solidarity, in order to boost the efforts of “Medecins du Monde” to support Greek families who have been hit by the economic recession. The first event is the presentation of...

Students, academics, authors, actors and journalists will participate in the student congress “George Seferis: From Smyrna to Istanbul” that will be held at Istanbul's Zografeion Lyceum from 20 to 23 March. The congress is being organized by the Zografeion Lyceum...

The Athens Startup Weekend is taking place for the 7th time in Greece at The Cube Athens, a state of the art startup cluster and innovation space. The Startup Weekend Athens, which runs March 7-9 and is part of the global nonprofit organization aiming...