Greece

Greece

Refugee in suitcase arrested on Lesbos island

02/03/2017

Greece

Doctors walk out in Greece

Doctors in Greek state hospitals walk out in protest in central Athens over social security changes

02/03/2017

Greece

Metro and trams grind to a halt in Athens

Metro, urban rail and tram workers in Athens have walked off the job for 24 hours. They are angry about legislation that would allow the Athens transport organisation to use stations for commercial pu

01/03/2017

Greece

Greece: Stalled talks resume- new measures to come

Last week’s Eurogroup was just a first step towards a final deal between creditors and the Greek government in order for the bailout programme to get again back on…

28/02/2017

Economy

Greek bailout talks restart

Greek ministers have been meeting experts from the EU and IMF discussing the economic reforms Athens must make to keep bailout funds flowing.

28/02/2017

Economy

Greek PM Tsipras hails 'honourable compromise', optimistic on future reforms

The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been talking up the agreement with European creditors under which the country will make further reforms in 2019.

24/02/2017

Greece

Transport strike causes traffic chaos in Athens

Transport workers in Athens have taken part in the first of three 24-hour strikes to object to legislation that would allow the transport organisation to make commercial use of…

23/02/2017

Business Line

Austerity and Grexit musings on the road to reform

Business Line assesses the state of the Greek economy as eurozone finance ministers agree to the next step on releasing further bailout loans.

22/02/2017

Greece

Greek strike shuts down Acropolis

Those who came to see the Parthenon were in for a major disappointment.

21/02/2017

Economy

Greeks need "light at the end of austerity tunnel"

Discussions between Greece, its European lenders and the International Monetary Fund on the country’s bailout obligations have dragged on for months as disagreements persist over fiscal issues, labour

20/02/2017

Greece

Masked attackers throw petrol bombs at Greece's Syriza party HQ

People wearing carnival masks threw Molotov cocktails at the Athens headquarters of Greece’s ruling Syriza party on Sunday, causing slight damage.

20/02/2017

Greece

Euroviews. View: Greece’s economy strongly recovers for first time since 2010

By Dimitris Papadimoulis is Vice President of the European Parliament, head of Syriza party delegation.

18/02/2017

Economy

IMF reportedly will contribute to Greek bailout

The International Monetary Fund is reportedly likely to contribute up to five billion euros to the third bailout package for Greece.

17/02/2017

Economy

EU financial affairs chief says progress made on Greek bailout review talks

EU Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici says a crucial Greek bailout review is making progress, but more steps are needed.

15/02/2017

Greece

Austerity-weary farmers hold protest march in Athens

Some 2,000 Greek farmers protested in Athens on Tuesday over increases to their tax and social security contributions amid the government’s ongoing austerity…

14/02/2017

Greece

Greece: World War II bomb defused after Thessaloniki evacuation

An unexploded World War Two bomb was safely defused on Sunday after one of Greece’s biggest peacetime evacuations.

12/02/2017

Economy

Tsipras confident on bailout review but urges no more burdens for Greece

An all-important review of Greece’s latest bailout will end well, Alexis Tsipras told a meeting of his Syriza party in Athens on Saturday.

11/02/2017

Greece

[Opinion] Greek programme's second review must conclude quickly

Greek debt relief has to be discussed in the framework of the roadmap agreed in May 2016, says Roberto Gualtieri.

10/02/2017

Economy

Greek finance minister meets eurozone officials over bailout logjam

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos meets top European officials in Brussels to try to break the deadlock over stalled bailout talks.

10/02/2017

Greece

Euroviews. Why don't migrants want to stay in Turkey or Greece? - view

07/02/2017

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Protesters confront ministers at Athens migrant camp

Greece’s migration minister Yannis Mouzalas was confronted by an angry crowd at the entrance of a sprawling migrant camp in the south of Athens on Monday, trying to block his entrance to the…

07/02/2017

Greece

Migrant deaths prompt work at Greek camp

Greek media say three men were poisoned by fumes from stoves lit inside the tents to combat the bitter winter temperatures. However, the authorities would neither confirm nor deny this.

03/02/2017

Greece

Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn march against migrants in Athens

Anti-migrant Golden Dawn march in Athens

29/01/2017

Greece

Turkey: Anger as Greek court rejects extradition of fugitive soldiers

Ankara has reacted with fury after Greece's Supreme Court rejected the extradition of 8 Turkish soldiers wanted over last July's attempted coup.

26/01/2017

Greece

Greece: Supreme Court rules against extraditing 8 Turkish soldiers

Turkey said Greece was protecting plotters and failing in the fight against terrorism on Thursday after the Supreme Court in Athens ruled against extraditing eight Turkish soldiers wanted over last Ju

26/01/2017

Greece

Greek Supreme Court delays verdict on extradition of Turkish soldiers

Greece’s Supreme Court has postponed a final decision on whether or not to extradite eight Turkish soliders who fled to the country in July.

23/01/2017