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Greece Raises 2.5 Billion Euros From Bond Auction
File photo Greece launched a 5-year bond auction on Tuesday, with the financial products having a yield of 3.6 percent. The sale successfully raised a total of 2.5 billion euros ($2.87 billion) for...
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Greece Seen as Second-Most Corrupt Nation in the EU
Greece is second from the bottom among EU countries in this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index, which was released by the organization “Transparency International” on Tuesday. At the very bottom of...
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Tsipras to Meet Turkish Leader Erdogan Next Week
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is preparing to pay an official visit to Turkey on February 5, where he will meet with the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish leader extended...
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Tsipras Calls Opponents of Prespa Deal “Extreme Right Populists”(video)
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was caught on camera on Tuesday telling EU leaders that the tens of thousands of Greek citizens who demonstrated in Athens against the name deal with FYROM were...
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President Anastasiades Congratulates Tsipras on Prespa Accord
President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades congratulated Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras over last week’s ratification of the Prespa Agreement before their meeting in Nicosia on...
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The Imia Crisis: When Greece Faced War in the Aegean (video)
Turkish reporters who were helicoptered in to plant flag on Imia islet are pictured in this January 1996 photo. (file photo) Unlikely as it may seem, a dispute over salvage rights between Turkish and...
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Greece Seeks UNESCO Heritage Status for Spinalonga Islet (video)
Greece’s Culture ministry submitted a nomination to UNESCO on Tuesday asking them to declare Crete’s Spinalonga islet, with its impressive sixteenth-century Venetian fortress, a new “World Heritage...
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Corfu Museum of Asian Art Plans Lafcadio Hearn Exhibitions
The Corfu Museum of Asian Art, located in the imposing Palace of Saints Michael and George, is planning two exhibitions on Lafcadio Hearn, the writer who bridged the Greek and Japanese cultures. The...
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Chinese “Year of the Pig” Celebrated in Athens
Photo source: AMNA Hundreds of Greek citizens joined members of the vibrant Chinese community in Athens on Tuesday to welcome the nascent Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, which begins on Feb. 5...
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Greek Government Calls Farmers for Talks as Roadblocks Continue
Greece’s minister of agriculture urged striking farmers on Thursday to lift the roadblocks they had set across several highways and proceed to the negotiating table. “I am inviting the farmers at the...
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Russia Demands Greece Extradite Bitcoin Suspect
Vinnik was detained in Greece on July 25, 2017 Moscow expects Athens to extradite back to his own country the Russian national Alexander Vinnik, a bitcoin fraud suspect who has been in a Greek prison...
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FYROM to Change Signs to “North Macedonia”
The government in Skopje decided on Tuesday to change all signage in the nation in order to reflect the country’s new name, the “Republic of North Macedonia.” “In compliance with constitutional...
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UN Peacekeeping Mission to Cyprus Extended
The work of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) has been extended for 6 months, as a result of a Security Council resolution which was unanimously adopted on Wednesday. The move...
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Greek Baby-Cry Interpretation Application Takes World Stage (video)
iCry2Talk developers (L-R) Andreas Loutzidis, Anastasia Ntracha and Jason Hadzikostas A new Greek-designed software app which tells new parents what their baby is “saying” when it cries has become a...
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Tsipras, Zaev to be Honored in Germany
The leaders of Greece and FYROM will receive the prestigious “Ewald von Kleist” Award in February for their efforts to resolve bilateral differences. A report by Deutsche Welle DW) on Thursday says...
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Two Earthquakes Jolt Greek Islands of Karpathos and Rhodes
Two tremors were recorded earlier on Friday under the seabed near the island of Karpathos, which were felt on Karpathos and the island of Rhodes. The first quake, measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale,...
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One in Four Greeks Cannot Afford to Heat Their Home
One in four Greeks say that they cannot afford to heat their homes, according to data released on Thursday by the EU statistical service Eurostat. The EU-wide survey for the year 2017 reveals that the...
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Greece’s Creditors “Concerned” About Minimum Wage Hike
Greece’s creditors expressed deep concern on Thursday over the recent decision by the government to increase the minimum wage by 11 percent, according to reports. “Not even the Greek experts had...
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Top 10 Private Islands For Sale in Greece
Now that many of us in the northern hemisphere are beginning to tire of the bleak white/gray/black palette of winter, here comes some great news. You do not have to be a billionaire to buy one of the...
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Outcry Over “Limited Impact” Vote for Greeks in the Diaspora
The government is under fire because of its controversial proposal to allow Greeks in the diaspora to vote in the next elections, but restricting their influence. According to a report in Kathimerini,...
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