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The IMF-Berlin Back and Forth Might Cost Greece

The technical teams of Greece's creditors return to Athens on Tuesday to resume negotiations over the bailout program review. This is what was agreed on Monday's Eurogroup, after a two-and-a-half-month standstill. Yet, no one is certain how the negotiations will...

U.S. Treasury Secretary: 'Greek Crisis Is Basically a European Problem'

The economic crisis in Greece is basically Europe's problem, said new U.S. Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin in a Wall Street Journal interview. The statement came after estimations that the Donald Trump administration will not encourage the International Monetary Fund...

Poll: 52% of Germans in Favor of Grexit

A new opinion poll for Stern magazine shows that 52 percent of Germans are in favor of Greece leaving the euro zone. According to the poll conducted by Forsa Research Institute, more than half of Germans (52 percent) are in...

First Greek Policeman in German Federal Police

Charilaos Kyriakidis is the first police officer of the Federal Police Directorate at Frankfurt airport without German citizenship, a Deutsche Welle report says. The 28-year-old policeman found his new "home" in Germany after serving the Hellenic Police for 10...

Greeks Pay as Much as Germans to Put Food on Daily Table

"Poor" Greeks are paying as much as "rich" Germans in order to put the daily food on the table, says a World Economic Forum report. The figures on food prices are compiled by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, which...

European Commission President: "Greeks Made More Reforms than Northern Europeans"

No country in Europe has achieved more progress than Greece on the issue of competitiveness, said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Saturday. The European Commission president spoke on  German public radio Deutschlandfunk (DLF) where, inter alia, he said that,...

Candidate for U.S. Ambassador to EU: Greece Will Choose to Leave the Euro Zone

Greece will leave the euro zone in a year or a year and a half, predicted the candidate for U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Ted Malloch. The American economist spoke to Skai television in an interview broadcasted on Tuesday...

WWII Survivors, Historians Present Database of Witness Accounts of German Occupation

“I don’t feel hatred for the Germans. But I feel great sadness because Nazis existed. Why did we allow as a society for Nazis to exist?” said Rosina Asser-Pardo, a Greek-Jew who survived the Second World War, during her...

Spiegel: Germany Sends 30 Guards to Greece's Northern Border

Germany is to send 30 policemen to guard Greece's northern border in fear that the country would be flooded by migrants who will try to cross to northern Europe, a Spiegel report says. The report which is posted in the...

Cretan Products and Cuisine Promoted in Binz, Germany

The Cretan products and the Cretan diet and cuisine were successfully promoted in an event held in the town of Binz, Germany. The Deputy Governor of the Region of Crete Theano Vrentzou-Skordalaki presented the three main pillars of the regional...