Greece

Rescuers scoured the seas off Greece on Thursday following a shipwreck that killed at least 78 migrants, as hopes of survivors dwindled and fears grew that hundreds more, including children, may ...

At least 79 migrants drowned early on Wednesday and hundreds more were feared dead or missing after their overloaded boat capsized and sank in open seas off Greece, in one of ...

Cyprus and Greece have taken different paths toward resolving the previously sizable number of non-performing loans (NPLs) in each country, according to a recent piece of analysis by rating agency ...

National flag carrier Cyprus Airways this week announced the launch of a new route between Larnaca and Preveza, which is set to begin on June 29 with two weekly flights. The ...

Three people drowned and at least 12 were believed to be missing in a migrant shipwreck off the island of Mykonos, the Greek coast guard said on Friday. The bodies of ...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greek authorities were investigating a New York Times video showing asylum seekers being forcibly ejected from Greece but reiterated denials that his government knowingly carries ...

Greece’s two main opposition parties on Tuesday turned down mandates offered to them to form a coalition government, setting the stage for a second election in June after an ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday he will not seek to form a coalition government following this weekend’s election, paving the way for a second vote in ...

Greece’s conservatives were set to be offered an opportunity on Monday to form a coalition after winning the weekend’s election, but without enough seats to deliver on their ...

President Nikos Christodoulides congratulated Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his victory in Greek parliamentary elections. In a post on Twitter, Director of the President’s Press Office Victoras Papadopoulos ...

Greece‘s ruling New Democracy party stormed to a crushing victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday but fell just short of the threshold needed to form a government on ...

Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Robert Menendez, expressed hope for a “different attitude” following elections in Turkey and Greece. Menendez was in New York, as a ...

Greeks were voting on Sunday for a new government in a poll likely to be inconclusive, setting the stage for either a coalition administration or new elections in about a ...

Greece heads for what is likely to be an inconclusive parliamentary election on Sunday, paving the way for wrangling between parties to forge a ruling coalition in a deeply divided ...

Politicians vying for votes in Greece’s election on Sunday have turned to YouTube and TikTok to win over a younger generation who have long felt that years of crises ...

In working-class neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Athens, Spiros Richard Hagabimana is going door-to-door in an election campaign that could see him become Greece’s first Black lawmaker. It is ...

The 2023 Eurovision has caused a political stir on the island, after Greece’s national jury awarded the island’s entry only four points in the final, when it has traditionally ...

Fourteen years after a debt crisis that saw Greece nearly crashed out of the euro, single parent Niki Klaoudatou says she worries more about money now than she did during ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, this Sunday, May 14th, will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remains in office, and they will shape the country’...

Italian police on Wednesday arrested 29 people on charges of belonging to a criminal group smuggling migrants by boat from Turkey and Greece, a statement said. Italy is struggling with a ...

Greece issued a series of warnings to shipowners to avoid sailing close to Iranian waters days before Tehran seized two tankers amid heightening tensions in the region, according to documents ...

Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of accepting bribes in one of the biggest scandals to hit European Union institutions, was released from custody to house arrest ...

Israel signed a 1.44 billion shekel ($400 million) deal to sell Spike anti-tank missiles to Greece, Israel’s Defence Ministry said on Monday, just days after reaching a similar-sized deal to provide ...

A month after 12 students at Greece’s largest university were killed in a train crash, messages of grief across the campus are tinged with rage. “This crime will not be ...