Greece

"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...

The Greek government passed the second omnibus bill required for the negotiations on the third bailout package, but the rift within SYRIZA remains as 36 MPs voted against. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has tried to minimize losses from his own...

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...

New Democracy interim leader Evangelos Meimarakis is likely to organize party elections on August 30, 2015. This decision, however, could be facing opposition from within the party. Meimarakis has taken over the reigns in New Democracy after Antonis Samaras stepped down following...

Scientists taking part in an investigation on the location of the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the waters of the Greek island of Santorini, recently discovered opalescent pools of hydrothermal activity forming at a depth of 250 meters. During the...

Greek Parliament President Zoe Konstantopoulou spoke out against the changes in the Code of Civil Procedure that the Greek Parliament will vote on later in the evening. “The vote is a diversion because it is introduced as an intervention by the institutions...

Watching lawmakers in the Greek parliament speak about the required reforms they have to vote for in order for Greece to start negotiations for the third bailout package is like watching an absurd tragicomedy. It would have been hilarious if...

Greece's television landscape will change as of autumn, Alternate Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Christos Spirtzis said in an interview to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Wednesday. Spirtzis is expected to table the draft law on television licences for discussion in Parliament on...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias addressed the 10th World Panhellenic Inter-Parliamentary Association (WHIA) convention on Tuesday, where he discussed the role of the Greek Diaspora in Greece's well-being. The WHIA is staffed by people of the Greek Diaspora who are elected legislature members in non-Greek speaking countries. “Without the...

Greece never asked Russia for financial assistance in order to print its own currency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, according to Sputnik. "The President has already said, and the Minister has said, and we have repeatedly said on various levels...