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While visiting the coastal town of Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese on Sunday, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis promised that a highway from Corinth to Kalamata via Tripoli, as well as a branch connecting Lefktro and Sparti, will...

Former Greek president Kostis Stephanopoulos died at the age of 90 at Errikos Dynan private hospital in Athens following complications during a respiratory infection. The conservative New Democracy politician was rushed to the hospital on Thursday, November 17, and...

The Synod of the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, held at the Patriarchal Center of Alexandria of Egypt from 15 to 17 November under the chairmanship of Patriarch Theodoros II, has decided to restore the institute of...

According to the annual property report by Cushman & Wakefield titled, Main Streets Across The World, Athens' Ermou Street is ranked the 25th most expensive shopping street in the world. This is the international property consultant company's 28th edition for...

Officials have announced their growing concern regarding violent attacks on migrants centers throughout the Aegean islands by far-right groups. According to the latest reports from Greek police force (ELAS), there have been at least two assaults against migrant facilities on the...

On Sunday representatives of Greece's creditors presented the government with a draft agreement for completing the second review. According to a Greek finance ministry official, this included some "open issues" on which staff-level negotiations were continuing. The biggest differences between the...

Staff on the Athens tram, electric railway (line 1) and metro (lines 2 and 3) have announced that work stoppages will continue next week, starting on Monday. On Monday there will be no trains on line 1 from the start...

Deputy Migration Policy Minister Ioannis Balafas said the government wants to close the camp in Souda on the Greek island of Chios and transfer refugees and migrants in a new camp outside the town. “We do not want to create...

The ministry of administrative reconstruction submitted on Friday night a draft bill introducing a new system of voluntary mobility for civil servants. The main elements of the bill are its voluntary character as well as the fact that employees will...

The huge economic crisis that has struck Greece has resulted in the lockage of small and large businesses, however other historic Greek brands have been reborn and given new leases of life under new ownership. A revival of sorts...