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With a record tourist season in swing in Greece comes the good news that Athens is the sixth-cheapest European capital concerning the average price of a hotel room, according to the online hotel search engine Trivago. The figures show that...

In October 2013, a series of actions will start being implemented in the Municipality of Grevena, a mainly mountainous and agricultural area located within the administrative region of Western Macedonia, Greece, for two years, in the framework of the...

Greece's record-breaking tourist season got a big bump in June when the first hordes of visitors started coming in droves in and the trend is continuing, officials said. According to preliminary aggregated data for July released today by the K,...

Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said preliminary investigations have found that nearly half the dozens of fires sweeping Greece and its islands were arson, resurrecting fears that the lands are being burned so they can be developed. Despite a perennial...

The Greek State generated approximately 812.5 million euros ($1.081 billion) from issuing six-month treasury bills, as reported by the Public Debt Management Agency (ODDIH). The rate of these bills so far remains the same as the previous treasury bills, which...

With a lingering crushing economic crisis, prices of enough products fell to show a Consumer Price Index (CPI) drop of 0.7 percent in July, compared to an increase of 1.3 percent for the same month in 2012 and 2011. Enough...

Greek Justice responded to the provocative publication of the British newspaper Daily Mirror, which presented the touristic region Malia as “a hellhole of rapes of British women,” based on reported incidents. The development of criminal cases shows that in many...

According to data of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention (HCDCP) another three outbreaks of the West Nile Virus appeared on August 6. One of them appeared in the region of Xanthi, a fact that accentuates the...

Two Greek women, the director Ioli Andreadi and the musician Erato A. Kremmyda will participate in the theatrical workshop-festival World Wide Lab that will take place in Brooklyn, New York City from Aug. 16-Sept. 17. The World Wide Lab was...

In an opinion piece entitled The Euro’s Morality Lesson which it compares the financial situation of Germany and Greece, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen said that despite a crushing economic crisis, Greeks still believe in putting bribes in...

The first week of a five-month trial in Greece of cutting the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 23 to 13 percent on food services such as restaurants and tavernas isn't going well, with 92-95 of the eateries not reducing...

An average of 15.5 million tourists visits Greece each year and spends an average of 627 euros each, according to a study carried out by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). The same study mentions that 83 million...

Cretans are not going on vacation this year. The reduction in wages and income will keep a lot of people home, while the best plans include a weekend of camping at the south part of the island for those...

The Ministry of Education announced the entrance examination program for General Education and Orientation Courses for candidates belonging to the special category of children of Greeks living abroad, for admission to Higher Education. The exams will take place from September...

According to recently published estimates, more than 100,000 tourists went on a cruise to Corfu in July. A significant rise in tourist mobility in Corfu has been recorded this summer, particularly in the cruise sector. In July 2013, the number...