Thessaloniki

Greece’s shadow economy is estimated to have averaged at 25% of GDP in the last 15 years, which means that economic activity equal to one fourth of the country’s GDP exists, but is not declared in the official economy,...

European Commission Vice President and Commissioner for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic is scheduled to arrive in the Greek city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday to attend a ceremony inaugurating the construction of the TransAdriatic Pipeline (TAP), which will be held...

Preparations for the security measures for Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit in Greece at the end of May are underway by the Russian security services. According to Eleftheros Typos newspaper, the upper echelon of security of the Russian president are...

SYRIZA ruling party has lost 20 percentage points in Thessaloniki compared to the September elections results, an opinion poll shows. In the poll that was conducted by the University of Macedonia, SYRIZA is trailing by 10 percentage points to major...

A team of British police officers are heading to Kos in search for new witnesses that will assist in the case of Ben Needham -- a toddler who went missing almost 25 years ago. Ben Needham was 21 months old...

Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said that 30,000-40,000 refugees will stay in Greece for a long time. Mouzalas headed a meeting on the migration issue in Thessaloniki. He said that the makeshift migrant camp in Idomeni, on the Greek-FYROM...

Athens has started to gradually empty out, as many vacationers are getting into the spirit of Easter holidays and find several ways to escape the city in order to enjoy traditional and quite times in their hometowns. The Central Bus Station...

Four-year-old Konstantinos Kotsonis is suffering from a level-four neuroblastoma in the left suprarenal gland with metastasis to the bones and marrow. The diagnosis occurred in June 2014 by Ippokrateio Hospital in Thessaloniki and ever since the boy has been...

One of the most "famous" districts in Thessaloniki that attracts both tourists as well as locals is "Ladadika" -- a historical neighborhood that has been configured just for pedestrians and constitutes a favorite destination especially for the nightlife. Ladadika is...

The complaints by refugees and migrants for expired food are continuing, as today a new incident of sandwiches with vegetables that had gone bad was made known. The refugees complained about the incident outside the tents of the MSF. The...