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Greeks could soon be part of globally renowned amusement park and resort, Disneyland Paris. Disneyland Paris representatives will be coming to Athens on November 3rd and 4th to recruit people for various employment positions. Various departments are looking for staff and available...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to appoint Euclid Tsakalotos for the second time, as Greece's finance minister in his new cabinet, according to a SYRIZA official. The Oxford-trained economist, who replaced Yanis Varoufakis in July, played a crucial role in Greece's...

Amid the recurring phenomena of shipwrecks and rescue operations in the Aegean Sea, a different story has emerged in Lesvos. A Syrian couple making the long a journey from Syria into Europe, took with them their eight month-old twin children. According to...

Greece's former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis replied to criticism he received from Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, claiming Europe's leaders 'bullied' Alexis Tsipras into agreeing to the final terms of the bailout. Varoufakis wrote an open letter on his blog...

The Delphi Bank 22nd Greek Film Festival (GFF) announces its full 2015 program showcasing cutting-edge cinema steeped in Greece’s time honoured culture of storytelling. Jam packed with 14 feature films, 4 documentaries and a 60’s classics retrospective on the...

Greece's conservative party New Democracy is expected to elect a new leader by the end of October in the aftermath of the election loss to leftist SYRIZA. Incumbent party chief Vangelis Meimarakis announced on Monday that it is time to...

European Union interior ministers approved a controversial plan Tuesday to relocate 120,000 migrants throughout the 28-nation bloc, overriding vehement opposition from four ex-communist eastern nations. The interior ministers adopted the plan by majority vote ahead of a Wednesday summit of...

Economy Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz criticized once again the austerity policies imposed on Greece by Germany and the Eurozone, saying that "Germany is responsible for the chaos." In an interview with the German newspaper Tagesspiegel, Stiglitz estimated that Greece's...

The constituency of Rodopi Region in northern Greece is left without Christian representatives as the three parliamentary seats went to Muslim MPs. Former New Democracy lawmaker Euripides Stylianidis who represented the Christian population of the region, lost to the two...

Reforms, a new industrial policy and a plan to fight corruption and tax evasion are the three main requests of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) for the new government. "The result of the elections reflects the will of the...