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Greek Muslim Group Hits Out at ‘Threats, Hatred’
The largest association of Muslims in Greece has accused a shadowy racist organization of threatening to attack its members. In a statement the Muslim Association of Greece said it received a...
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Greeks Experience ‘Cultural Shift’ on Smoking
Greeks have finally understood the problem of smoking and are kicking the habit, says a leading authority on public health. Speaking to the Greek Reporter, Prof. Panagiotis Behrakis, Director of the...
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Olympiakos, PAOK Secure Easy Wins as AEK Stumbles
Olympiakos and PAOK maintained their winning streaks after cruising to victories with the identical scoreline of 3-0 against Xanthi and Apollon Smyrnis respectively. Third-place AEK dropped two points...
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Greek Pilots Safe Amid Carnage of Kabul
The two Greek pilots, Michalis Poulikakos (left), and Vasilis Vasileiou (center) lived through the terrorist attack in Kabul. A Greek pilot working in Afghanistan initially thought to be among the...
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Mob Chases Former Greek Minister at Macedonia Rally (video)
A group of demonstrators participating in Sunday’s rally against the use of the name ‘Macedonia’ by FYROM set upon Greece’s former deputy minister of Education, Kostas Zouraris. Zouraris, who last...
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‘Fascists’ Torch Historic Thessaloniki Building (video)
A historic building occupied by activists in Thessaloniki has been torched during a massive rally in the Greek port city against use of the term ‘Macedonia’ for Greece’s northern neighbor. Emergency...
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Exhumation Begins of Greek Soldiers Killed in Albania During WWII (photos)
The process of officially exhuming the remains of thousands of Greek soldiers who fell in the mountains of southern Albania at the start of WWII is to begin Monday, with the activation of a bilateral...
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Vandals Attack Thessaloniki Holocaust Memorial
Outrage has followed the vandalism of a Holocaust memorial in Greece’s second city of Thessaloniki. The words “Golden Dawn” — the name of a Greek far-right party — were daubed on the base of the...
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Athens Just Got Its Own Natural Hot Spring in Glyfada
Greek authorities have designated a stream in the southern Athenian suburb of Glyfada as being a hot spring, endorsing a decades-old demand of the local council. The Aixoni hot spring makes Glyfada...
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Riot Breaks Out over Torching of Squat in Thessaloniki (video)
Greek riot police used tear gas on Monday evening, to disperse a large crowd of leftists demonstrating in Thessaloniki against the torching of an occupied building by ‘fascists’. A crowd of around 500...
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Cyprus Alerts UN over Newspaper Attack
Cyprus has expressed its concern over freedom of the press in the areas under Turkish military occupation, following the ransacking of the offices of a newspaper critical of Turkey’s president. In a...
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Young Greek Entrepreneur Makes Forbes List
A young Greek businessman has won a place in Forbes’ list of the 30 most notable European entrepreneurs for 2017. Stavros Tsombanidis, based in Patra, is founder of PHEE, which manufactures gift boxes...
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Cyprus Presidential Candidates Cross Swords in TV Debate
The Cyprus issue and the re-ignition of the UN-backed peace process dominated a televised debate between the candidates running in the island’s presidential election on Sunday. The five main...
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Greek Jewish Group Slams Desecration of Holocaust Statue
Greece’s Central Board of Jewish Communities (CBJCG) has condemned the desecration of Thessaloniki’s Holocaust Monument which took place on Sunday. The words ‘Golden Dawn’ — the name of a Greek...
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New ‘Macedonia is Greece’ Rally Planned for Feb. 4 in Athens
Following the success of Sunday’s massive protest in Thessaloniki where hundreds of thousands demonstrated against the use of the term ‘Macedonia’ by FYROM, a new rally is to be held in Athens on Feb....
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Greek, FYROM Leaders Prepare for Crunch Summit
The Greek and FYROM prime ministers are meeting on Wednesday afternoon at Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in the latest round of negotiations on the name dispute. A meeting between...
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Cyprus President: FYROM Name Not Important (video)
Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades, on Wednesday delved into the name dispute between Greece and the “Lilliputian” Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), claiming the issue is not important....
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Tsipras at Davos: Greece Managed Migration with Dignity
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday the migration problem is a European and international issue and not the concern of Italy and Greece alone. “It is necessary to face this problem not as...
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Greek Debt Rises in Third Quarter of 2017, Says Eurostat
Greece’s public debt totaled 177.4 percent of GDP in the third quarter of 2017, up 1.3 percent compared with the second quarter of the year, but down 0.5 percent in comparison with the third quarter...
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Greek Opposition Leader Slams Tsipras over FYROM Talks
The Greek government is wrong to pursue a solution to the name dispute with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) now, New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday....
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