Greece

Greece

Greek annual Christmas card calls lenders 'Scrooge'

Greek finance ministry seems to take aim at country's lenders with annual Christmas card depicting Dickensian miser

23/12/2016

Economy

Greece pensioners receive controversial Christmas bonus payment

Queues stretched down the street outside Athens banks on Thursday, as pensioners waited to collect their Christmas bonus payments from the government.

22/12/2016

Economy

Greece and its European alliances will stand up to German pressure: opinion

22/12/2016

Sport

Portugal's Euro-winning coach honoured in Athens

Portugal’s Euro 2016-winning coach Fernando Santos was honored this week by the Greek Association of Sports Journalists.

20/12/2016

Economy

Greek central bank sees 2.5 percent growth for 2017

Greece's central bank is forecasting the Greek economy will expand by 2.5 percent next year, way better than this year's anticipated 0.1 percent.

16/12/2016

Greece

Greece snubs its international lenders to give low-income pensioners a one-off Christmas bonus

Greece has snubbed its international lenders and legislated plans to give low-income pensioners a pre-Christmas payoff.

15/12/2016

Economy

Tsipras defiant as Greek pensioners Christmas bonus is approved

Greek lawmakers have approved a Christmas bonus for the poorest pensioners, defying eurozone lenders who've suspended Athens short-term debt-relief.

15/12/2016

Economy

Greek pensioners Christmas bonus row threatens debt relief

The eurozone's bailout fund has suspended Greece's short-term debt relief over Athens unapproved December payout to pensioners.

14/12/2016

Greece

Greek parliament approves 'final exit' budget

It is billed as Greece’s “final exit” from its almost decade-long financial crisis.

11/12/2016

Greece

General strike as Greece braces for more austerity

Greece ground to a halt on Thursday amid a general strike in protest at planned labour reforms and painful austerity cuts demanded by its EU and IMF lenders.

08/12/2016

Business Line

Debt relief gift for Greece and Italy's political merry-go round resumes

Euro zone finance ministers have agreed to give Greece short-term debt relief but what price, if any, will Athens have to pay the price in the long-term by way of austerity…

07/12/2016

Greece

Fate of asylum-seeking Turkish soldiers remains unclear

A court in Athens has ruled that three of eight Turkish officers said to be implicated in July’s failed coup attempt in Turkey should be extradited back to their home…

06/12/2016

Greece

Violence erupts again in Athens on anniversary of student murder by police

Protesters fought running battles with Greek police on the eighth anniversary of the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos.

06/12/2016

Economy

Greek economists fear the financial future

Eurogroup agrees to a modicum of debt relief

06/12/2016

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Festive fun as sea of Santas hits Athens' streets

A sea of festive red engulfed parts of Athens as the Greek capital hosted a Christmas-themed run.

05/12/2016

Greece

Greece debt relief deal 'doable' by year's end says EU's Moscovici

On a rainy day in Athens, it was a message to warm the heart of the Greek government.

29/11/2016

Economy

Greece hopes for debt relief as EU reviews bailout reforms

Visiting Athens, the European Union’s Commissioner for Economic Affairs has reported ‘good progress’ as he reviews Greece’s efforts to implement labour and pension reforms required as part of its inte

28/11/2016

Greece

Heavy rains force Athens metro stations to close

Heavy rains in Greece have flooded the streets in Athens.

27/11/2016

Greece

Greece: woman and child die in migrant camp fire

A 66-year-old woman and a six-year-old child have died in a blaze at a refugee camp in Greece.

25/11/2016

Cinema

Thessaloniki film festival discovers wealth of first films

The Thessaloniki film festival has again come up trumps with a rich seam of first films and strong offerings from new names and festival regulars.

25/11/2016

Greece

Greece: migrants set fire to Lesbos refugee camp after two die in gas blast

A woman and a child are said to have died in an explosion at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

25/11/2016

Greece

Former Greek president Stephanopoulos dies

Constantine Stephanopoulos dies at the age of 90 after contracting a lung infection. He was taken into hospital on Sunday and his condition is said to have deteriorated rapidly.

21/11/2016

Greece

Tensions high as migrant camp attacked

It is the second time the camp on the Greek island of Chios has been targeted. Rocks and petrol bombs were hurled at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants.

18/11/2016

Greece

Greeks mark anniversary of bloody student uprising

It is 43 years since Greece's students rose up for Democracy and tried to face down the soldiers and tanks of the military regime.

17/11/2016

Greece

Violence breaks out at Greek refugee camp

At least 50 people have been arrested on the Greek island of Chios after violence erupted at a migrant camp.

17/11/2016

Greece

Obama's compelling valedictory speech

The US president touched on globalisation, Donald Trump, the NATO question and the compassion of the Greek people in his foreign farewell.

16/11/2016