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Greek nurse Foteini Kourakou can now work as a qualified intensive-care nurse in the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) after the regulator relaxed a language test she was forced to take. Before that, the 28-year-old had been forced to work...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras referred to the economic crisis experienced by the Greek and Irish peoples, as he received visiting Irish president, Michael D. Higgins, at Maximos Mansion on Thursday. Tsipras said the Greek people perhaps have suffered more...

Greece will get 19 billion euros in the next seven years for development in agriculture, while Greek traditional products will be protected, said European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan. The European commissioner is in Thessaloniki and on...

OECD ranked its country members based on the number of people living overseas. Ireland came first, with the highest number of citizens living in countries overseas, even though the country is quickly recovering from the devastating impact of an...

A new study that looked into the origins of the Irish race revealed that the people who migrated to the land that would become Ireland potentially came from the Near East and Southern Europe, including the Pontic Steppe. The report was conducted...

  Company bankruptcies in Greece slowed to 330 in 2014, from 392 in 2013, for a decline of 15.8%, the second biggest percentage decline in European south after Spain, a survey by ICAP Group, a member of the Federation of...

Eurozone members did not feel the weight of the financial crisis equally, at least until 2013. Reuters sites European Central Bank data which shows the different implications of the European financial crisis on the wealth of different countries' citizens between 2009-2013. The citizens...

Nikolai Diekerts, 28, and Julian Schärdel, 29, are friends and they share a common passion: board games. However, they are interested in finding new games that escape the mainstream board game market rules and promote their own ideas. It appears...

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis will be opening the 6th annual Kilkenomics Festival in Ireland, according to a recent announcement by journalist David McWilliams. The festival which was co-founded by McWilliams and Naoise Nunn is set to kick...

It seems that the economic crisis and the fear of bankruptcy has led a lot of Greeks to overeating. Then again it might be that the healthy Mediterranean diet has become too expensive for Greeks and they have resorted...