Refugees on Lesbos celebrate New Year with hope
Xinhua — The first snowflakes fell on New Year’s Eve at the reception center of Moria in the suburbs of capital Mytilene on Lesvos island […]
Head of disease control centre to face trial for fraud
eKathimerini — The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the director of the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) should face trial for fraud. […]
Retired MPs to get €60K each in back pay
Greece’s Court of Audit has decided that retired members of parliament are entitled to up to 60000 euros in pension pay retroactively, according to an […]
Municipality of Gortyna declares bankruptcy
The Municipality of Gortyna in the prefecture of Heraklion has declared bankruptcy and is to enter a supervision program that will require increasing the municipal […]
Minoan: Approval for Crete complex in final stages
The Scotsman — Travel and property group Minoan saw its shares jump yesterday amid progress for its long-awaited plans to build a flagship hotel complex […]
Greek drivers surrender car plates to avoid heavy taxation
Greek car drivers formed queues with their car number plates at tax offices around the country in the closing days of the year, to hand […]
2015 – The year hope did not come in Greece
Anyone hoping that Greece might finally have a quiet year was quickly disappointed in 2015. Brinkmanship with European bailout lenders brought the country a half-step […]
Greek and Turkish jets in dogfight over Aegean
Greek and Turkish jets engaged in a brief dogfight over the Aegean Sea on Tuesday after Turkish aircraft violated Greek national air space several times. […]
Greece to remain under close EU supervision in 2016
Greece will feature heavily on the Eurogroup agenda in the first six months of 2016 as creditors want to supervise closely the progress of the […]
Heated areas to open to homeless in Athens as cold snap expected
Municipal authorities in Athens are bracing for a cold snap at the end of the week and are opening emergency shelters for the capital’s homeless. […]
Italy passes tax-cutting 2016 budget, dismissing EU doubts
Reuters — The Italian parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s tax-cutting 2016 budget which the European Commission says risks […]
Sites, museums close as guards walk off
eKathimerini — As retail stores stayed open on Sunday in a bid to boost flagging trade, many of the country’s main archaeological sites and museums […]
British ‘cocaine kingpin behind £1,600,000 drug smuggling ring arrested in Greece
The Mirror — An alleged cocaine kingpin from Britain has been arrested in Greece, it has been reported. Simon Dutton, 39, was reportedly arrested in […]
Verhofstadt calls for reforms in Greece
The President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Guy Verhofstadt referred to the need for structural reforms in Greece. “2015 was a […]
Greek and Danish archaeologists excavate the ancient Greek harbour town Lechaion
In Greece, underwater excavations of Lechaion, ancient Corinth’s partially submerged harbour town, reveal the infrastructure of more than a thousand years of flourishing maritime trade. […]