December 1, 2024
Rhodes Floods & Havoc: 24h Traffic Ban, new warning message (pcts, video)
Storm weather BORA hit the island of Rhodes with heavy rainfalls wreaking havoc and despair. Homes a…
November 30, 2024
Storm BORA: 2 dead on Lemnos; Floods in Rhodes, Warning to Attica, N. Greece
Two men died on the island of Lemnos in northern Aegean Sea and residents in several regions includi…
November 30, 2024
Metro of Thessaloniki starts operation after decades of delays
With kettledrums and trumpets, the Metro of Thessaloniki began running on the tracks, 40 years after…
November 29, 2024
RED ALERT: BORA to hit Greece with heavy rainfalls, storms, gusty winds and snow
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a RED ALERT weather warning of the baromet…
November 29, 2024
Boy dies, three girls and mother hospitalized after gas leakage
One 16-year-old boy died, two of his sisters are intubated in ICU, while a third sister and his moth…
November 29, 2024
Christmas Tree of Athens was lit in Syntagma Square
The Christmas Tree in Greek capital Athens was lit in Syntagma Square early Thursday evening in the …
November 28, 2024
Football fans threaten to sabotage the Metro inauguration in Thessaloniki
Deputy Minister of Transport, Nikos Tachiaos, filed a lawsuit for sabotage threats in the Metro of …
November 28, 2024
Athens named “World’s Leading Cultural City Destination” in 2024
Greek capital Athens was named “World’s Leading Cultural City Destination” during the Grand Final Ga…
November 28, 2024
Greece to install 1,388 advanced traffic cameras to improve road safety
The government unveiled on Thursday a new plan to install 1,388 advanced traffic cameras nationwide …
November 28, 2024
One more MP resigns from SYRIZA leaving the party with 28 deputies
MP Yiannis Sarakiotis, elected with SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance in Fthiotida, sent a letter to the P…
Recent News
Some 200 employees of Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) demonstrated outside the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection on Tuesday evening. EYP personnel protested the austerity measures and handed to the general secretary of the ministry a list with their demands. According to Greek media, the national security of …
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NYT Op-Ed: Greece Arrests the Messenger
Hey! Caught red-handed and exposed even on the other side of the big river! Renomated New York Times sharply criticized “Greece’s slow and cumbersome justice system” and “mainstream Greek politicians”: the first for showing a “stunning swiftness” to arrest investigative Kostas Vaxevanis, and the latter for “shamefully stripping the poorest and most vulnerable from …
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Greece in Governance Black-Out: PASOK & DEMLEFT Disagree with Samaras “Negotiation with Troika Completed”
Coalition partner and leader of PASOK, Evangelos Venizelos was angered over PM’s Samaras statement that the negotiation with the Troika has been completed, considering the negotiation has to continue until short before the Eurogroup meeting. With PASOK’s reaction and Democratic Left insisting in not voting for the labour rights ‘reforms’, the …
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Greek PM Samaras’ New Old Dilemma: Measures or Chaos
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras issued a statement on Thusrday noon saying the negotiation with the Troika has been completed. Samaras announced that Greece has completed the austerity measures of 13.5 billion euro and the budget for 2013, two preconditions for the debt-ridden country to receive the loan tranche of …
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UPD Athens: Man Threating to Blow Himself Up Surrendered to Police
A middle-aged man claiming to carry explosives is threatening to blow himself up in downtown Athens. According to Greek news portals, the man is sitting on a bench of a park near the presidential manor and the prime ministers’ office. Greek police has cordoned the area, while mediators have moved to the spot …
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Public Order Minister Presents Parliament with Suspected Golden Dawn Crimes
Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias on Tuesday presented Parliament with a list of violent and criminal acts that have been attributed to deputies and officials of the ultra-nationalist party Golden Dawn in police reports from around the country. The lengthy document was submitted to the House following calls for an …
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EUROPOL Dismantles International Network Smuggling Migrants to EU
In a joint cooperation with Europol, Greek, Italian and German authorities dismantled an international criminal network smuggling Iraqi and Kurdish migrants to EU. The criminal organisation set up by Iraqis had transferred more than 1,500 people and earned around 12.5 million USD. The criminal used to move migrants from Turkey …
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Berlin: Students Verbally Attack Ex PM Papandreou (video)
The prime minister who took Greece to IMF had an unpleasant surprise in Berlin. While he was enjoying dinner in a restaurant in Berlin, a group of Greek students stormed in and started to verbally attack him. “Shame on you!”, “You ridiculed the country!”, “You eat with people’s money!”, “Go, …
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Mini Crash: Athens Stock Exchange Plunges -6,28%
Athens Stock Exchange suffered a mini crach on Monday, plunged by -6.28%, the General Index fell below 820 units and the banking sector with losses of 15% as Greece’s lenders refused to make any concessions on labour rights ‘reforms’ and junior coalition government partner Democratic Left insists on not voting in favor of the …
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Juncker: Eurogroup meeting on Nov 8, Decisions on Greece on Nov 12/2012
Jean Claude Juncker has called an extra ordinary Eurogroup meeting for November 8th 2012 and claimed that final decisions on Greece will be met on November 12. He considers that no decisions on Greece will be met during the Eurogroup on upcoming Wednesday. At the same time, he called to …
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State NET-TV Presenters Censored for Criticizing Public Order Minister Over Guardian Torture-Report
A case of censorship in Greek state broadcaster ERT/NET. Kostas Arvanitis and Marilena Katsimi, presenters of news-magazine “Morning Information” on NET TV were removed from the magazine due to comments on Minister of Citizen Protection Nikos Dendias over the Guardian-Dendias conflict. Nikos Dendias had threatened to sue British newspaper The Guardian …
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BDO-Survey: Greece riskier for investors than war-torn Syria
An annual survey of finance directors from global business consultancy BDO finds that the crisis over too much government debt in Europe remains one of their key concerns — so much so that Greece is considered a riskier place to invest and set up business in than war-torn Syria. Only …
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Metro of Thessaloniki starts operation after decades of delays
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SYRIZA down to 27 MPs after one more goes independent
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Greece to install 1,388 advanced traffic cameras to improve road safety
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One more MP resigns from SYRIZA leaving the party with 28 deputies
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“Tsipras saved Greece” writes Angela Merkel in her memoirs
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Deaths and malpractice at Greek Hospitals spark concerns
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Greece-Turkey: The “Aegean” remains a Sea of troubled waters
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Mitsotakis pledges for a stronger defense industry, Rutter sees Greece as a “staunch NATO ally”
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MP Sokratis Famellos, 58, elected the new leader of SYRIZA
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Ex SYRIZA Kasselakis presents his new party “Movement for Democracy”
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“The Lausanne Treaty refers to a Muslim Minority,” Athens tells Turkey
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Black Friday fines of €2.2mln to 14 companies for misleading advertising
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Eurostat: Eurozone inflation at 2.3% in November, 3% in Greece
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Greece’s Primary Surplus at €13.5 billion, higher than the target
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Passenger traffic in Greece’s airports hits new record
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Amazon invests in three new utility-scale wind farms in Greece