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Greece and the European Union need to take urgent and bold action to tackle the refugee crisis unfolding in the country, UNHCR officials said in Athens on Friday. Addressing a press briefing at the end of a five-day visit to Greece,...

    Let's pretend you have some capital to invest and you have chosen to offer your cash to one of your poorer relatives in order to reform their struggling company. A noble investment. Now, would you ever invest in that company if its...

"Greece is returning to the Balkans," Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said, in statements after briefing a meeting of the National Council on Foreign Policy about the results of his tour in seven southeastern European countries. Kotzias said that he had...

Greece's parliament approved a second set of austerity measures into laws on Thursday; a requirement for the country to receive a bailout deal by its creditors. Greece moved closer to seal a new bailout deal, the third one, with the European Central...

The highest government debt to GDP ratios in the Eurozone were recorded in Greece (168.8%), Italy (135.1%) and Portugal (129.6%), according to a recent Eurostat news release for the first quarter of 2015. However, the Greek government debt also recorded...

European Union interior ministers failed on Monday to find temporary homes on the continent for some 40,000 African, Asian and Middle Eastern asylum-seekers encamped in Greece and Italy after perilous journeys across the Mediterranean. Meeting Monday in Brussels, the ministers...

A senior European Union official told Reuters that there is a 20 to 30 percent chance of success for the three year European Stability Mechanism bailout program that Greece and its international creditors will begin negotiating. Greece and its creditors agreed on the conditions of...

Although Greece and its international creditors came closer to preventing a Grexit in Brussels last Monday, a secret European Commission Grexit report indicates that the possibility of Greece leaving the Eurozone was very real, and still could be, at least until a bailout...

When Greek and other European leaders came to the 17th hour of their all-night talks that culminated in an agreement Monday morning, their immediate concerns were economic. But experts say there were also serious strategic issues driving them toward...

The Greek government's determination to proceed with the negotiation in order to close a deal based on the people's mandate and its decision in Sunday's referendum, underlined on Wednesday Alternate Social Insurance Minister Dimitris Stratoulis speaking to private ANT1...