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Tsipras Calls on Turkey to Abide by International Law
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called on Turkey to abide by international law in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean during a joint summit on Thursday with the leaders of Cyprus and Israel....
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Greek Conservatives Maintain Commanding Lead in New Poll
Greek main opposition New Democracy Party (ND) has a 9.5 percent lead over governing SYRIZA in a new poll conducted by Greece’s Pulse polling company on behalf of Skai TV. In the poll, which was...
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Piraeus Bank Returns to Profitability Says CEO Christos Megalou
Piraeus Bank CEO Christos Megalou, says that Greece’s largest lender is returning to profitability in an exclusive interview with the Greek Reporter. Speaking on the sidelines of the 20th Annual...
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Christmas Carols From Every Corner of Greece (videos)
Greece is a country where traditions and customs are a part of modern, everyday life. Most holidays in Greece are celebrated traditionally, and Christmas in no exception. Christmas caroling is very...
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Abandoned Babies Celebrate Their First Christmas in Greece’s Largest...
Marianthi Nikolopoulou snuggles an abandoned baby at Elena Venizelou Hospital The holiday season has an additional meaning to workers at Greece’s largest maternity hospital. The babies in their care...
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Two Injured in Athens Bomb Blast
A policeman and a church employee were injured in a bomb blast that rocked the Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki on Thursday. According to Skai TV, the explosion occurred outside the historic Agios...
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Barrage of New Violations of Greek Airspace by Turkish Jets
The Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) recorded 36 violations of Greek national air space over the northeast, central and southeast parts of the Aegean Sea on Wednesday. GEETHA said nine...
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Greek Businessman Kidnapped in Piraeus
The Greek police have launched a desperate manhunt for at least four men suspected of kidnapping a businessman in Piraeus on Thursday. TV station Skai reported that the suspects grabbed the victim and...
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Hundreds of Ancient Coins Seized by Greek Police
A 55-year-old man in Larisa, central Greece, was arrested on Friday. He was found in possession of 693 ancient coins and other items during a coordinated operation conducted by the police. The man was...
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Survey Discloses Greek Preferences at Start of 2019
Everyday dilemmas faced by modern Greeks were put to the test in a wide-ranging national survey. The results of the survey were released on Friday. 675 people aged 17 and over were called to choose...
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Greek Opposition Decries Lack of Security After Bombing
Greek politicians condemned Thursday’s bombing outside the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Dionysios in Kolonaki, central Athens, which slightly wounded a policeman and the caretaker of the church. No...
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Remembering December 2014’s “Norman Atlantic” Ferry Disaster (video)
On December 28, 2014 the passenger ferry “Norman Atlantic” caught fire in the Strait of Otranto in the Adriatic Sea, en route from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona, Italy. The “Norman Atlantic”...
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Thessaloniki’s Christmas Magic Captured in Spectacular Drone Video
The city of Thessaloniki has been covered in millions of twinkling Christmas lights and other festive decorations as Greece’s second largest metropolis undergoes a complete metamorphosis to welcome...
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Gambling on New Year’s Eve Has Become Greek Tradition
Outside of the Greek world, it is little known that Greek people nearly always play cards on New Year’s Eve. But according to Greek folklore beliefs dating back to ancient times, the new year will not...
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New Year Brings Storms, Heavy Snow to Greece
The year 2019 will kick off to a cold and wet start in Greece, according to weather forecasts issued on Sunday by Metro, the National Observatory of Athens weather service. The low pressure front...
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Migrants Granted Greek Citizenship After Saving Dozens in Mati Fire
Greece’s President Prokopis Pavlopoulos will grant Greek citizenship to three migrant fishermen who helped rescue dozens of people from the sea during the deadly fire at Mati last summer. One hundred...
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November 17 Murderer Spotted Strolling Athens Streets (photo)
Dimitris Koufodinas, the infamous and unrepentant killer who was a hitman for the disbanded terrorist group November 17, was spotted taking a stroll in the streets of Athens on Wednesday. The hitman,...
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Turkish Foreign Minister Calls Greece’s Kammenos “Spoiled Child”
Greece must do something about its “spoiled child” defense minister, Panos Kammenos, to avoid a military response by Turkish armed forces, Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on...
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Average Salary on Cyprus Climbs to 1,827 Euros
The average gross monthly earnings of working people in Cyprus stood at 1,827 euros ($2,078) for the third quarter of 2018, according to provisional data published by the country’s Statistical Service...
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Greek Opposition Leader Warns Rule of Law “Under Threat”
Leader of the New Democracy (ND) Party Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned on Thursday that the separation of powers, and even democracy in Greece, are being undermined by government intervention in the...
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