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PM Mitsotakis Aims to Rebrand Greece at the UN Climate Summit and General...
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will seek to rebrand Greece by launching a charm offensive during his presence this week at the UN Climate Summit and General Assembly in New York. In scheduled...
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Cyprus Rules Out Reunification Talks Until Turkey Stops Provocations
President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday that just as he is determined to engage in an honest and creative dialogue, he is equally determined to never do so until Turkey ceases its...
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Syrian Men Posing as Volleyball Team Nabbed at Athens Airport
The group of illegal immigrants after they were detained at Athens’ airport Greek police arrested a group of ten illegal immigrants from Syria at Athens’ International Airport on Saturday. The men, who...
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Greece to Offer Incentives for Zero Emission Vehicles
The Greek government will provide incentives for people, and companies, to replace their old cars with zero-emission ones starting next year, Deputy Finance Minister Apostolos Vesyropoulos said....
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Greece to Strengthen Coast Guard Amid Surge in Migrant Arrivals
The Greek government decided at an urgent meeting on Saturday to strengthen the coast guard due to an increasing number of migrant arrivals, a spokesman for the government told reporters. “During the...
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Greek Super League Derbies End in Draws
Panathinaikos and Olympiacos shared an 1-1 draw in the Greek version of el clasico on Sunday at the Athens’ Olympic Stadium, whereas PAOK saved a point equalizing against Aris deep in injury rime in...
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Greek Tourism Industry Suffers Blow After Thomas Cook Collapse
The Greek tourist industry is reeling following the announcement on Monday by Britain’s Thomas Cook tour operating corporation has ceased all trading of shares in the company. Approximately 50,000...
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Greek Police Raid Another Migrant Squat in Downtown Athens
Police on Monday raided an illegally-occupied building in the Exarchia district in downtown Athens, removing more than 100 illegal migrants and refugees as part of a clean-up drive by the government....
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Greek Police Release Lebanese Hijacking Suspect in Case of Mistaken Identity
The hijacker of the TWA plane still remains at large Greek police admitted on Tuesday that the arrest of a Lebanese man on suspicion of participating in the hijacking of a TWA flight in 1985 happened...
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More than 800 Migrants Cross into Greece in Less than 48 Hours
A total of 360 refugees and illegal migrants were registered just from midnight Tuesday to 4 PM the same day at the Moria Reception and Identification Center on the Greek island of Lesvos, authorities...
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Greek PM Vows to Respect Prespa Deal in Meeting With North Macedonian...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Tuesday in New York that although he did not agree with the Prespa Agreement, Greece is obliged to honor...
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Travel Company Offers Nine-Day Free Luxury Tour of Greece — For Snapping Photos
A new luxury travel company is offering one lucky person the chance to spend nine days island-hopping in Greece, staying in high-end hotels while taking photos for Instagram on a free smartphone — and...
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Greek PM Mitsotakis Meets Turkish President Erdogan in New York
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York on Wednesday, his first with the Turkish president since he became prime minister in July. The meeting,...
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Notorious Exarchia Square Given a Facelift by Athens Council
Work crews belonging to the Athens municipality arrived in Exarchia Square early on Thursday morning and began their work to clean up and give the central Athens square a “facelift,” which the city...
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Greek PM Raises Cyprus Impasse and Climate Change in Meeting with UN Chief
The Cyprus issue and climate change dominated the talks between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York on Thursday. In a statement, Mitsotakis...
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades Blasts Turkey’s “Gunboat Diplomacy” in UN...
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has deplored Turkey’s “gunboat diplomacy,” saying that Ankara’s illicit activity in the Eastern Mediterranean undermines the prospects of reaching a settlement on...
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Greek Police Bust Antiquities Smuggling Ring; Precious Rings, Coins Recovered
Some of the items retrieved by the police on Thursday Greek police on Thursday arrested eight people suspected of belonging to an antiquities smuggling ring in the town of Larissa. Police say that the...
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Government, Opposition Clash Over Greek Diaspora Vote
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis described on Thursday a proposal submitted by main opposition party SYRIZA on the ability of diaspora Greeks to vote in general elections as “deeply offensive,” saying it...
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AEK, PAOK Share Honors as Olympiacos Moves Top of Greek Super League (video)
AEK held reigning champions PAOK to a 2-2 draw at the Athens Olympic stadium on Sunday enabling Olympiacos to move alone to the top spot of the Greek Super League. AEK twice fought back from a goal...
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Rioting Breaks Out at Greece’s Moria Camp After Migrant Dies in Fire
Greek riot police clashed with angry migrants at the Moria Reception Center on Lesvos on Sunday after one woman died in a fire at the infamous camp. A child which was initially thought to have been...
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