Latest News from Greece
“Hostages of taxes”: We will pay 4,5 billion Euros more in 2017
Predictions of the State budget’s draft that will be delivered by the Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos to the Parliament’s President on Monday transcend the Memorandum’s demands on surplus in 2017.
De Maiziere urges Athens to implement Dublin rules
Germany Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has repeated his call for Greece to implement the so-called Dublin regulations, which state that migrants must seek asylum in the European Union member-state they first arrived in.
Institutions and the incompetent
In the last few decades, the Greek political system has been set on playing games with local institutions. It chose to ignore the importance of ability and reputation and selected its own people for pivotal positions. People with zero academic contribution became rectors, for instance, with the assistance of party mechanisms.
Prioritize foreign policy
Greece is currently facing a number of direct challenges in matters regarding national security and foreign policy.
On the other side of the Aegean, Turkey is going through a period of intense instability and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming increasingly unpredictable.
Shutters come down on historic Athens bookstore
Customers browse books at the Eleftheroudakis bookstore on Panepistimiou Street in central Athens on Saturday. It was the store's last day in business. Founded as a family business in 1898 with a single bookstore on Syntagma Square, the company gradually expanded, launching several outlets throughout Greece.
Greek Defence Minister Kammenos Warns Turkey's Erdogan Of Revising International Law
Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos recommended to Turkish President Recep Erdogan to refrain from embarking on the dangerous road of revising international law.
Cyprus celebrates Independence Day
A Cypriot special forces soldier with camouflage painted face takes part in the military parade in capital Nicosia in the divided capital of Cyprus, Saturday. President Nicos Anastasiades said in a televised address marking Cyprus' 56th anniversary of independence from British colonial rule that no modern state within the European Union has any need for third-country security guarantees.
Never-ending descriptions
We're all tired. We journalists, those who govern, you the readers, who follow the news and the commentaries - all of us living in this country with all its dead ends. The only real and consistent recycling taking place in Greece these days has to do with speeches, pledges and promises. What follows are denials, recriminations, misconstructions and conspiracy theories.
Foundations of hope
A new generation of young Greeks who were forced to leave their homeland due to the ongoing crisis are now getting organized and forming their own opinions regarding all that needs to change in this country.
Athens says Erdogan remarks on Lausanne Treaty are ‘dangerous’
Statements disputing the Lausanne Treaty were dangerous for relations between Greece and Turkey, as well as the surrounding region, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stated on Friday afternoon. The prime minister was responding to comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regarding the 1923 Lausanne Treaty on Thursday.
Minister admits gov't struggling to tackle migration
Greek authorities face a range of problems in dealing with the refugee crisis, Immigration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas admitted in comments to Parliament on Friday while calling on opposition parties to back the government's efforts to tackle the crisis.
Athens says Erdogan remarks on Lausanne Treaty 'dangerous' for bilateral ties
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has described Thursday's comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that expressed regret over the Lausanne Treaty, signed in 1923, as "dangerous."
Athens is likely to meet tranche conditions in time
Greece is likely to meet by next week the conditions for the release of a 2.8-billion-euro loan from the eurozone, concluding a first phase of an aid and reform plan agreed with international lenders, senior eurozone officials said on Friday.
July was 'best month ever' for Cyprus tourism
Cyprus recorded its best ever monthly revenues from tourism in July, scooping more than 400 million euros, official data showed on Friday.
"It is the best month for tourism income ever recorded by the statistical service," said an official statement.
French students' Little Odyssey takes in Corinth Canal
Three French law students from Sete in southeastern France are seen canoeing in the Corinth Canal, which separates the Peloponnese from mainland Greece, Friday. The students are on the final leg of a canoeing trip to Istanbul which they have dubbed L'Odyssette (The Little Odyssey). The route from the coastal village of Sete to Istanbul covers around 7,000 kilometers.