Politics

Greece and Cyprus have decided to establish a joint committee to deal with problems in the education and culture sectors, following a decision by the parliamentary education committees of both countries. The decision to jointly formulate policy was taken...

The European Commission decided to refer Greece, Luxembourg and Romania to the Court of Justice of the EU on Friday for failing to transpose into national law Directive 2012/34/EU establishing a single European railway area. The Directive aims at strengthening...

The eight Turkish officials implicated for having taken part in the attempted coup in their country before escaping to Greece were sentenced to two months in prison on Thursday for illegal entry to Greece due to mitigating circumstances. Their...

On Friday reports from reliable sources said that the assistant to the Turkish military attaché in the Turkish Embassy in Athens has been arrested in Turkey. Although there is no confirmation from Turkey regarding this issue, the man, a sergeant major, is said to...

  The Greek government was strategically defeated on the matter of pushing through a draft bill to introduce a proportional representative electoral system without the 50-seat bonus as it fell short of the necessary 200 parliamentary votes required to move...

During a meeting in Athens on Thursday, Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and visiting U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew agreed on the necessity of significant debt relief for Greece. In a brief dialogue before television cameras as Lew...

A Greek court sentenced the eight Turkish army officials who fled to Greece aboard a Turkish military helicopter in the wake of an attempted coup in their country, to two months in prison on charges of illegal entry to...

Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday met his former rival for the party's leadership and interim party president Vangelis Meimarakis at ND's headquarters on Syggrou Avenue. According to sources, there was a "cordial atmosphere" and "coinciding...

Security checks have been heightened in the Aegean following reports from the Turkish media that fugitives from Turkey's armed forces were trying to reach the island of Symi in the wake of Friday's failed coup attempt. Greek state broadcaster,...

The Greek Health Ministry on Monday announced the formation of a working group consisting of  academics, psychiatrists, and scientific and legal advisers of the prime minister, health ministry and the justice ministry and members of patient associations, to initiate...

There are reports that two Turkish inflatable boats with an unconfirmed number of passengers have made their way to the Greek border island of Symi. The Greek side has been carefully monitoring the two dinghies making their way to...

Greek Parliament's quarterly report points to growth prospects to follow the completion of the first review and "additional bailout." The report states that development will come if the reforms are adopted, but there are still dangers lurking. The report stresses...

An article in the Financial Times makes a case for the current turmoil in Turkey being of benefit to Greece. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said that Greece's creditors should let Greece restructure its debt so that the...

  Human Rights Watch, a rights group concerned with the refugee crisis, called on Greece to stop holding unaccompanied migrant children in police station cells. Greece is urged to find facilities to hold minors entering the country and offer them...

The Western Thrace Muslim minority party issued a pamphlet in Turkish calling on Muslims to act against the alleged suppression by the Greek state. The Friendship, Equality and Peace party (FEP) distributed the pamphlet calling on Muslims to rally in...