Latest News from Greece
Norway Ranked Happiest Country Worldwide
Norway has been declared the country with the happiest population in the world. The evaluation is contained in the World Happiness Report published on Monday and drafted by the organisation Sustainable Development Solutions Network at the request of the UN.
The report was published on International Happiness Day - March 20.
Bailout monitors unlikely to return to Athens after Eurogroup, official says
The chances of representatives of Greece's international creditors returning to Athens after Monday's Eurogroup meeting to resume bailout talks are very slim, a European official told Kathimerini, noting that little progress had been achieved in a series of teleconference calls over the weekend.
Dijsselbloem wants bailout fund turned into a European IMF
The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) -- the euro zone's bailout fund -- should ultimately be turned into a European version of the International Monetary Fund, the head of euro zone finance ministers said on Monday in a German newspaper.
Bulgarians Abroad To Vote in 371 Sections, 70 Countries
Bulgarians abroad will be able to vote in the upcoming snap parliamentary elections on March 26 in a total of 70 countries and 371 voting sections.
The number of sections was determined via a decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) taken on March 4, while Bulgarians abroad filed declarations to vote out of the country until February 28.
EuroGroup: Ministers arrive in Brussels
Finance Ministers from the common European currency zone are arriving in Brussels to take part in the March 20 EuroGroup meeting with Greece on main agenda.
Bulgaria's Vice President: Europe Needs New Policy on Migration, Asylum
Europe needs an entirely new policy in the sphere of migration and asylum, stated Vice President Iliyana Yotova during a discussion on the future of the European Union.
Iliyana Yotova underlined that the policy of quota distribution of migrants arriving in Europe is not working. She stated that European institutions must reconsider the migrant agreement with Turkey.
Three suspects linked to perpetrator of ISIL attack on Berlin market caught in Istanbul airport
Three suspects allegedly linked to the slain perpetrator of an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack on a Christmas market in Berlin last year have been apprehended at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, Turkey's Interior Ministry announced on March 20.
NATO excludes Limnos from exercise – Greece withdraws!
NATO -once again…- danced on Turkey’s tune! With a decision that could evolve into a diplomatic incident, NATO excluded the island of Limnos from an electronic warfare exercise.
Turkey has been questioning Greece’s sovereign rights on Limnos and has attempted repeatedly in the past to exclude the island from NATO exercises.
Sharp increase in migrants reaching Aegean islands from Turkey
New arrivals to the eastern Aegean islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos have raised the number of migrants landing in Greece from neighboring Turkey since last Thursday to 566, government figures showed on Monday.
The figure represents a significant increase compared to arrivals in the rest of March and for the whole of February.
Erdogan’s fanatics in Thrace call for “Holy War”! (PHOTOS)
In the light of the upcoming referendum in Turkey, President Erdogan is pulling every card available to convince his people to vote “Yes” to the constitutional changes that will empowering him greatly.
Greek tax workers protest against austerity as Eurogroup meets in Brussels
Greek tax service employees took their protest against bailout-driven austerity to the heart of government on Monday, as Athens waits to hear if its reform plans are enough to satisfy euro zone finance ministers meeting in Brussels.
Euro Zone Finance Ministers To Discuss Greece
The Finance Ministers of the countries in the Euro zone will discuss the development of the second review for macroeconomic corrections of Greece.
Gazprom Changes Policy Over Natural Gas Deliveries to Bulgaria
Moscow and Brussels shook hands in agreement to fundamentally change the gas policy of Russia in relation to certain former satellite countries to the Soviet Union, now part of the EU, according to BNR.
Refugee deal the only bond left between Turkey, EU
A Turkish-EU refugee deal reached last March is a success despite certain setbacks, according to Erkut Emcioğlu of the European Stability Initiative, a think tank based in Berlin.
After Netherlands and Germany, Greece?
The war of words between Ankara and Western Europe during the past weeks has shifted our attention from another longer war of words: that between Ankara and Athens, with its latest phase having started with the case of the eight Turkish officers accused of taking part in the attempted coup of July 15, 2016, who escaped to Greece.