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Members of the PAME trade union occupied symbolically on Tuesday morning the main premises of the Finance Ministry Building at Syntagma Square, protesting against the "new measures in Social Security, taxation and foreclosures that turn against the workers." In an...

Migrant smugglers are preparing a new route to Europe that would transfer people by sailing to Italy, says Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. After the closing of the Balkan Route that refugees used to travel from Greece to central Europe...

A group of around 20 assailants threw Molotov cocktail bombs late on Thursday night at a police station in Pangrati, a busy residential neighborhood in central Athens, Greece. According to Greek police reports no one was injured in the attack,...

The student parade for the anniversary and celebration of March 25th was concluded several minutes after noon. For another year, heavy police forces patrolled  the area, in order to carry out the parade safely and without any unexpected incidents. Before...

An anonymous caller announced that there is a bomb at Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos airport. "It will be the same as Brussels, it is not a hoax," said the man in a call to news website Zougla.gr. The call comes 24...

"The mission has been productive. Significant progress has been made on the income tax reform," according to the respective announcements of IMF and Eurogroup. "The mission made important progress on key aspects of the pension reform. Work is ongoing and...

American actress Angelina Jolie, who acts as UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador, arrived in Athens, Greece, earlier on Wednesday. Jolie is currently visiting refugees hosted at Piraeus port and is planning to visit other areas in Athens where refugees are hosted. The American...

Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the institutions will return to Athens “possibly tomorrow” to complete the first review of Greece’s adjustment program. Speaking after the Eurogroup meeting at a joint press conference with European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs,...

Idomeni and Victoria square are the two main areas that the European Union is focusing on and drawing its conclusions regarding Greece's bad management of the refugee and migrant issue, according to the German Press. The photo depicting refugees trying to tear...

The government is going to apply a plan-b in order to manage the refugee and migrant issue, which entails decisions for the temporary accommodation of 100,000 refugees, even in camping, stadiums and abandoned factories. Meanwhile, the European Commission is...