Makedonia

Porto Carras is set to have a new owner, as Technical Olympic has agreed to sell the emblematic tourism resort at Halkidiki in central Macedonia to the Ivan Savvidis group's Belterra Investments for 205 million euros.

Greek military authorities on Friday ordered an investigation into a video posted on social media by a cadet at the army's Parachutist School, in which he is seen singing a song about Macedonia during a practice jump.

It first appeared on the Thessaloniki waterfront in 1995 during the northern port city's Dimitria cultural festival, in the location now occupied by George Zongolopoulos's iconic Umbrellas sculpture.

Britain's foreign secretary has congratulated Greek lawmakers for accepting a deal to resolve the protracted disagreement over the use of the name Macedonia.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt described the Greek parliament's ratification of the agreement on Friday as a "historic moment bringing a decades-old dispute close to an end."

Greece, Macedonia and Alexander the Great topped last year's most searched entries list out of a total of 358.8 million visits in Greek Wikipedia, according to data published by the local Wikimedia Community User Group on its website on Monday.

Red tape and the absence of an investment-friendly environment continue to dog Greece, Fraport Greece chief executive Alexander Zinell testified on Tuesday at the InvestGR forum in Athens.

Under-fire Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris has received support from his counterpart in Athens, Giorgos Kaminis, who descried his colleague as a "true patriot."

Boutaris was widely criticised after suggesting this week that Thessaloniki should think about renaming its Makedonia Airport. He made the proposal in the context of the discussions between Greece and the Former

Well over 100,000 protesters from across Greece converged Sunday on Athens' main square to protest a potential Greek compromise in a dispute with the neighboring the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over the former Yugoslav republic's official name. 

Bulgaria's nationalist VMRO-BND party has joined the dispute between Macedonia and Greece over Macedonia's name, accusing Greece of trying to "usurp" the term Macedonia exclusively.

The party led by Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov confirmed its statement published on Sunday on its website was official.

An unnamed German company is in the process of creating a Greek subsidiary based in Thessaloniki, Stefanos Tziritis, the president of the German-Greek Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Northern Greece Committee, announced on Friday.