#Greece

Almost two dozen Greek Cypriot students from the nationalist far-right student organisation Drasis-Kes were arrested in Athens on Thursday, after protesting outside the Turkish embassy, as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was undiplomatic and rude to cancel a scheduled meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last Monday over a few anodyne remarks he made to ...

Talks over a possible return of the British Museum’s Parthenon Sculptures to Athens are not advancing quickly enough, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday as he prepared ...

An EU-wide mechanism to combat illegal migration was one of the main issues on the agenda on Tuesday during a meeting in Athens between Cyprus Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and ...

Greece’s state-controlled bank bailout fund HFSF said on Monday it sold its 9 per cent stake in Alpha Bank (ACBr.AT) to UniCredit for 293.5 million euros ($314 million) after an improved ...

Cooperation between Cyprus and Greece is becoming even closer, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. Letymbiotis had held a meeting with his Greek counterpart Pavlos Marinakis on the sidelines ...

Asylum-seekers arriving in Greece face physical violence including being beaten and sent back to sea, Doctors without Borders said on Thursday, calling on Greece to increase migrant search and rescue ...

Deputy Minister of Shipping Marina Hadjimanoli is traveling to Athens on Monday to participate in the 8th tripartite ministerial meeting of Greece, Cyprus and Malta on shipping issues to be ...

EuroAsia Interconnector Ltd – the Cypriot company behind the mooted subsea power cable linking Greece, Israel and Cyprus – will quit the project entirely, it emerged on Monday. Industry sources moreover told ...

The electricity transmission operators of both Cyprus and Greece signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the provision of technical services from Greece to Cyprus in view of the forthcoming EuroAsia ...

Cyprus’ ambassador to Greece has become the target of bemusement following reports which surfaced in Greek and local media that he was selling signed ladies’ scarves. The recently appointed ambassador ...

Athienou municipality launched a humanitarian aid campaign to provide relief to those affected by the devastating floods that have struck central Greece, it announced on Friday. The initiative is carried ...

Permanent Secretary of Religious Affairs of the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, George Kalantzis, has praised the excellent relations between Cyprus and Greece both as regards the state ...

Members of the Cypriot missions who went to Greece to help fight fires there were on Wednesday awarded “for their zeal and professionalism”. The group, which comprised members of the ...

The second team of Cypriots who had been sent to Greece to aid in the fight against the country’s wildfires are due to return to the island on Friday ...

At least six people have died and more than six were still missing on Thursday after storm Daniel swept across central Greece, triggering landslides, destroying roads and bridges and carrying ...

At least two people died and four were missing on Wednesday after torrential rain flooded homes and businesses and destroyed infrastructure in central Greece, the fire brigade said. Since Monday, ...

Despite catching most observers off guard, the decision to include India in trilateral meetings between Cyprus, Greece and Israel has long been in the pipeline, the foreign ministry confirmed on ...

The Cyprus problem was among the issues discussed by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Greek counterpart Giorgos Gerapetritis in Ankara on Tuesday. At a press conference following the ...

The First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides and the spouse of the prime minister of Greece, Mareva Mitsotaki, were given a guided tour of the historic neighbourhoods of Ayios Kassianos and ...

Following three-way talks at the presidential palace on Monday, President Nikos Christodoulides, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis reaffirmed their commitment to reinforce their cooperation in energy. “...

The Cypriot firefighting mission in Greece will focus on battling blazes in the Dadias region in Evros as of Monday. The Cypriot team had been focusing on fires in the ...

The Cypriot firefighting mission in Greece has been moved to a different area after battling fires in Parnitha until late at night on Friday. The 31-member team is now operating ...

Cyprus will be sending to aircraft to help battle fires in Alexandroupolis, Greece, Forestry Department spokesman Giorgos Constantinou said on Monday. Cyprus will be sending two air tractors. Four people ...