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Greece moves to ease overcrowding in Lesbos migrant camp

September 18th, 2018 Greece said on Tuesday it would move 2,000 asylum-seekers from the island of Lesbos to the mainland by the end of the month as pressure mounted on the...

Greece

Wait and see, lenders tell Greece on bid to rescind pension cuts

September 14th, 2018 A bid by Greece to rescind pension cuts mandated for next year remains on hold after its international creditors withheld instant approval during their first...

Greece

Tourists injured after rockfall at pristine beach in Zakynthos

September 13th, 2018 At least seven people were injured in Greece on Thursday in a rockfall at the popular Navagio beach in the island of Zakynthos, Greek authorities...

Europe

Tsipras: Europe must face its failures to stop rise of far right

September 11th, 2018 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday Europe could face an existential crisis over nationalism unless it owned up to its failure to handle a...

Greece

Greece says fiscal success means pension cuts, tax hikes not needed

September 9th, 2018 By George Georgiopoulos Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, seeking re-election next year, said on Sunday that Greece would not need to cut pensions or...

Greece

Greek PM to promise economic relief after years of austerity

September 7th, 2018 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to announce on Saturday some economic relief for Greeks who have swallowed the bitter pill of austerity during...

Greece

Greek seamen strike over wage deal, labour rights (Update)

September 3rd, 2018 Greek ships remained docked at the country's ports on Monday as seamen started a strike to demand the restoration of wages and labour rights, following the...

Greece

Situation ‘at boiling point’ at refugee centre on Greek island

August 31st, 2018 The United Nations refugee agency urged Greece on Friday to speed up transfers of eligible asylum-seekers from Aegean islands to the mainland, saying...

Greece

Syrian swimmer who saved refugees arrested in Greece - lawyer

August 31st, 2018 Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees in 2015 by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged...

Greece

Greek PM touches up his cabinet ahead of 2019 elections

August 28th, 2018 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras lightly rejigged his cabinet on Tuesday ahead of a general election next year in an effort to shore up ebbing support from...

Greece

Greece investigates aid workers for suspected migrant smuggling, espionage

August 28th, 2018 Greek authorities have arrested two aid workers and are investigating a total of 30 from the same organisation on the island of Lesbos on suspicion they...

Health

West Nile virus cases in Greece jump in 2018

August 25th, 2018 Eleven people have died and 107 infected by the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in Greece so far this summer, authorities said, the highest number of reported...

Greece

Tsipras declares "day of liberation" after Greece exits bailout

August 21st, 2018 Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed the end of a "modern-day Odyssey" on Tuesday after Greece emerged from nine years of bailouts, saying it should never...

Greece

Greece's marathon bailout programme finally over, or is it?

August 20th, 2018 GREEK CB CHIEF WARNS OVER BACKTRACKING Greece's central bank governor warned the country not to backtrack on commitments to its lenders after it exits the...

Greece

Greece exits final bailout successfully - ESM

August 20th, 2018 Greece has successfully exited its final, three-year bailout programme, agreed in August 2015 to help it cope with the continued fallout from a debt crisis,...

Greece

Germany reaches deal on sending back migrants to Greece

August 17th, 2018 Germany has reached an agreement with Greece to send back migrants to the Mediterranean country if they have already applied for asylum there, the German...

Greece

Turkish court frees two Greek soldiers pending espionage trial

August 14th, 2018 A Turkish court has released two Greek soldiers pending their trial on espionage charges, state-run news agency Anadolu said on Tuesday, in a move Athens said...

Greece

In find of ancient gold earring, echoes of Greek rule over Jerusalem

August 8th, 2018 A gold earring believed to date back more than 2000 years has been unearthed near the site of the ancient Jewish temples in Jerusalem, in what Israeli...

Greece

Greece to tear down unlicensed constructions after killer blaze

August 7th, 2018 Greece will demolish thousands of illegal constructions, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, after unlicensed building was blamed for trapping...

Greece

Russia expels Greek diplomats in retaliatory move (Update)

August 6th, 2018 Russia said on Monday it had summoned Greece's ambassador to Moscow and told him it was responding in kind to what it called an unfriendly decision by Athens...

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