Greek News

It has been two years now since the death of Greek film director Theodoros Angelopoulos. The city of Athens Youth and Sport Organization will screen on Friday, January 24, the film "Athens, Return to the Acropolis" in Syntagma Square, Athens,...

The Federation of Greek Private Employees (OIYE) has decided to strike in response to Sunday store opening. For the upcoming Sunday opening on January 17, OIYE has announced a 24-hour strike covering all of Greece and has called for a...

Sotiris Emmanouil was detained for his part in the submarine scandal after his formal statement to the Magistrate Gavriil Mallis. Emmanouil was an executive and former president of the Hellenic Shipyards in Skaramagas, Athens when Akis Tsochatzopoulos was Minister in...

An official statement issued by the office of the Greek President of the Republic, Karolos Papoulias, has denied speculation of a possible early departure from the Presidency. According to the statement, "The President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias will complete his...

The head of the Fire Department in Australia (FRNSW), Greg Mullins, announced that he wants service to be modern and efficient, with the best executive staff on board. He believes that he can find excellent firemen amongst the Greek Diaspora. The...

The ongoing financial crisis in Greece along with sky-high levels of unemployment, currently 27.8 percent, has led many Greeks to migrate to other countries in order to find work and better living conditions. The most common destinations are Germany, Great Britain...

The Greek restaurant "Nostimo" in Amsterdam organized a dinner to promote the institution "Mount Athos Area Kouzina" of the "Mount Athos Area Organization." The dinner, which excited the Dutch, was inspired by the culinary tradition of Thessaloniki and Halkidiki,...

  According to data from research company ICAP concerning 4,670 firms out of the 22,500 which issued a 2012 financial report, only one in five (21 percent) Greek enterprises is run by a woman. That 21 percent however, represents a rise...

The mayor of Patras, Yiannis Dimaras , the president of community business “Patras Carnival” Konstantinos Trigos, the art director, Maria Kourampana and the director Panayiotis Fafoutis who will be coordinating the event, called everyone to celebrate the opening day...

According to the Association of Greek government’s Individual Bondholders, 15 bondholders have committed suicide over the past few months. The latest suicide was recorded on Saturday, January 11, 2014. It is worth mentioning that Greece’s small bondholders saw their...

A day after Bank of Greece Governor Giorgos Provopoulos told a parliamentary committee that the economy is recovering but that the country's banks may need more money, authorities said he and TV presenter Yiannis Pretenderis received envelopes containing bullets,...

An 18 year-old man in Kavala, Northern Greece, did not hesitate to force his 17 year-old sister into prostitution. The ruthless man was charging potential clients 1,100€ for the services of his underage sister. Police attained information on the young...

A new opinion poll carried out by GPO on behalf of newspot.gr, shows the popularity of the MPs in the first and second Constituency of Athens, as well as the rest of the Constituencies of Attica. In particular, the Greek...

Experts of the global organization Oxfam America, rank Greece among the 20 best countries in the world to eat. According to the latest report published by the group working to right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice, Greece ranks...

  “He is an excellent talent and he will leave his mark on tennis.” This statement came from one of the greatest tennis players of all time and currently the world’s number one, Rafael Nadal when he was asked to...