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The American investigative journalist, economist and bestselling author, Greg Palast turned his attention to Greece and said austerity is killing the country. Palast underlined that the euro is the main reason for the bad economic situation in Greece.Moreover, Palast said that for...

Greece has been popular among legends of rock music since the 60's. The land of the sun and the blue sea seems to have been a source of inspiration to many of them, a place for quiet and peaceful...

Riot police were dispatched on Aug. 10 to put down a riot at Greece’s main migrant detention camp where detainees hurled stones at officers and set fire to their living quarters, authorities said. Authorities said 10 of the prisoners, eight...

Dozens of resignations of senior tax officials have been accepted since the beginning of the year when the auditing on their income and assets began. They are mostly managers of tax offices and centers of audit by the Internal...

While many analysts contend that Greece won't turn the corner for years, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaeas, the country's champion cheerleader, said Athens will press its international lenders for debt relief beginning in November if a primary surplus can be...

Former Greek premier George Papandreou's stay on the island of Samos hasn't been a welcome one for him with residents angrily demanding he leave, unhappy that he had put big pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on the...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, during a visit to New York, urged Greek-Americans and those in the Diaspora to invest in Greece although those who already had were burned with 74 percent losses on their holdings and he has...

The first official poster for The BBC's Atlantis, features Robert Emms (Kick-Ass 2) as Pythagoras, Jack Donnelly (Misfits) as Jason, and Mark Addy (Game of Thrones) as Hercules with Greek mythology becoming even more popular as films and for...

Extolling the beauties of Greece, "where the prices have significantly dropped and there are real opportunities for the tourists to enjoy the sun, Greek beaches and the sea at favorable prices," an Austrian tourism market company is urging Austrians...

Toronto's Taste of the Danforth festival, which runs August 9-11, is set to attempt two Guinness World Records over the weekend, involving Sirtaki dancing and yogourt. This year the festival celebrates its 20th anniversary and the records if achieved will...

Greece's hopes of boosting the economy by cutting the Value Added Tax (VAT) in eateries from 23 to 13 percent for a five-month trial are failing from the get-go as inspectors have found about 50 percent of all businesses...

The effort that various analysts are making in order to present Samaras’ visit to the White House as a step that will bring a new start in Greek-American relations and that it indicates the country’s upgrade in US eyes...

Minister of Tourism Olga Kefaloyianni expressed her satisfaction with the reopening of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete. The museum was closed for years, but now it will open again to the public with a brand new wing. Kefaloyianni visited...

More and more Italian tourists are discovering northern Greece thanks to the completion of the motorway Egnatia Odos and to the increase of the direct air connections of Thessaloniki with northern and central Italy. Tourism from Italy has been also...

Simon Critchley, a professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, brought the house down at the 23d World Congress of Philosophy meeting in Athens when he said the Parthenon Marbles stolen from the Acropolis nearly...