A generation after the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia and weeks following President Trump‘s withdrawal from nation-building ambitions, a California Congressman apparently plans to single-handily introduce border changes in the Balkans.
Greece will not fragment European unity in the case of tougher sanctions against Russia, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday. Tsipras was replying to questions during a joint press conference with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, following their meeting in Kiev.
Nationality and ethnic origin are among the risk factors for depression among Greek women, who are more prone to suffering from the disease than either men or migrant women living in Greece, according to a survey presented in Athens on Thursday.
Greek authorities have declared a state of emergency in the Thessaloniki municipality Kordelio-Evosmos due to the operation underway to dispose of an unexploded WWII bomb found under a petrol station.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who is paying a visit to Ukraine, met on Thursday with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev.
Two refugees, that had applied for asylum in Greece two months ago and their request was still pending, stole a boat and attempted to escape from Chios and return to Turkey.
Vogue Australia magazine has placed the Cycladic island of Milos among the top five destinations to visit in 2017, describing it as an “undiscovered paradise”.
Waterway plans and projects across Greece are still up in the air with leading investor Hellenic Seaplanes warning that if a sufficient number of waterways is not licensed in the upcoming summer season then “hydroplanes will never make it to Greece”.
Everything may be in place for more than a year to issue the much talked about biometric ID cards, but Greece has still failed to launch the new and securer form of identification document.
German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a statement just before the upcoming Euroworking Group ruled out the possibility of a haircut of the Greek debt. He underscored that something like this would be a violation of the Lisbon Treaty. As he said, something like that could take place only if Greece was not inside the Eurozone.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recognizes the sacrifices of the Greek people, its Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday, speaking at an event at the Atlantic Council in Washington.
Tourism bodies and municipal authorities in the northern Aegean reacted angrily to a letter by Alternate Foreign Minister George Katrougalos informing them that the European Commission rejected the extension of a visa facilitation pilot program that allowed Turkish nationals to travel to the islands of the eastern Aegean without applying for a visa at the Greek consulate.
Greece's Central Archaeological Council has given its approval for a horseback parade through central Athens, planned as the opening event of the international exhibition 'documenta 14' on April 6. The Council drew a line, however, at the organisers' request to use miniature Skyrian ponies.
One of Greece’s most beloved musicians, Loukianos Kilaidonis has died at the age 74. SYRIZA MP and wife of the singer, Anna Vagena, informed the public of his death through a Facebook post. “Loukianos has left us today, February 7, 2017, in the morning”, she wrote.