Greece

Greek and Turkish military delegations completed talks on Confidence Building Measures aiming to ease tension between the two countries. The 5-day talks took place in Athens and completed on Thursday. The talks took place amid a series of daily provocations from Turkey that included violations of Greek air space and …

Two Greek nationals, passengers on cruise ship “Diamond Princess,” were repatriated on Saturday morning and transferred to a hospital in Athens where they will remain in preventive quarantine for 14 days. The two Greeks were ‘trapped’ in the cruise ship since early February. The ship initially carried 3,700 passengers and crew …

Motorists on the island of Rhodes found not so polite stickers on their cars that they parked illegally. “I’m a donkey and I park where I want,” the stickers read, reminding them that donkeys may b gentle and patient animals but in Greece we also use the word for rude …

Greece’s export performance recorded a slight increase and a new historical record in 2019. This increase is due to the upward trends in Greek exports to EU, while export performance to third countries dropped. Specifically, exports to the EU increased by 6.9 pct while exports to third countries fell 5.8 …

A surprise proposal by local authorities on the island of Lesvos: The new closed migration center should be constructed on the uninhabited islet Tokmakia near Lesvos and not in Karava area as the government has planned. The idea is attributed to New Democracy MP and former Justice Minister Charalambos Athanasiou, …

The renovation of Omonia Square in central Athens is almost concluded and will be delivered to Athenians and the capital’s visitors by the end of next week, Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said on social media on Thursday night after a test of the fountain. The square’s fountain has been filled with …

The bewildered youngster was invited to join the squad for their pre-match photo after being left all alone on the pitch, leaving big smiles on the faces of several stars.

Who is “Let’s Do It Greece? Let’s Do it Greece is the country’s largest Volunteer Action.   Every year, a day is decided when all over Greece, volunteers take action sending a message across the country for change.  Thousands of Volunteers stretching out on campaigns within forest areas, beaches, lakes, …

The European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) audited financial statements for 2019 show that the profit for the year increased by €790 million, to €2,366 million, mainly as a result of higher income earned on the US dollar portfolio and on the asset purchase programme (APP) portfolio. Net interest income totalled €2,686 …

“You can hear Schaeuble’s voice saying that the profits from Greek bonds he wanted for the German budget,” Yanis Varoufakis revealed in an interview ahead of the controversial release of his secret recordings from the Eurogroup sessions in the first half of 2015. “Don’t you want to hear Schaeuble speaking …