Greece

Greece

Exclusive: Police clash with refugee camp residents on Samos, Greece

Police fired warning shots and used tear gas, they "beat up" some of those demonstrating, an NGO told Euronews.

25/05/2019

World

Greece's economy on the up but not everyone is feeling the benefits

Months after Greece left behind the bailout programmes, many of its citizens still don't feel a change in their daily lives.

24/05/2019

Greece

Greek undertaker gets creative with coffins in election campaign

Undertaker Konstantinos Baboulas hands out coffin-shaped car air fresheners and has campaign posters resembling public funeral announcements. He says his job has taught him valuable lessons which he can adapt to politics.

23/05/2019

Greece

Watch: Diving club volunteers saving migrants off Greece

"When we go to help refugees and find dead children, in their eyes we see the souls and eyes of our own children,” said diver Stelios Hatziandreou.

21/05/2019

Greece

Inside the migrants' jungle in Samos

A former political science lecturer and civil rights activist, Sarah fled Uganda where her security was at risk. She has been surviving in the so-called migrants "jungle" on the greek island of Samos for 8 months. She takes us on a tour of what she calls hell on earth.

20/05/2019

World

Stateless in Europe: 'I was never given the chance to feel European'

Second-generation migrants who are living as stateless citizens in Greece have claimed they have no say in their own future, ahead of the European elections.

20/05/2019

Greece

Environmental restoration of Lake Karla revives Greek wildlife and locals

The environmental restoration of Lake Karla in Greece's Thessaly plain is recreating an ancient ecosystem, and reviving wildlife and local communities

15/05/2019

Europe

Migrants and Greeks in Samos share anger and despair

Samos is less than two kilometres away from the Turkish coast and it's one of several so-called "hotspots" for asylum seekers on the Greek islands of the north Aegean Sea.

10/05/2019

World

Migrants increasingly risk lives arriving in Greece by river or sea

Migrants put their lives on the line trying to get from Turkey to Greece, crossing by boat to the Greek city of Alexandropouli, Greece, or crossing the Evros river on the border to make it to Europe. Euronews correspondents Fay Doulgkeri and Bryan Carter report.

09/05/2019

Greece

Watch: Abandoned bear cubs Bradley and Cooper prepare for life in wild

The duo will be bottle fed by sanctuary workers until they've learned to forage in the forest, after being abandoned by their mother.

07/05/2019

Greece

Watch: Greeks 'burn Judas' in ancient Orthodox Easter tradition

Boats circle a straw figure of the Biblical traitor before setting it alight. The tradition dates back several centuries but in some places has only been brought back in the last few decades.

29/04/2019

Greece

Grrrrrrr... eeece named the most stressed country in the world

Mediterranean countries are known for their relaxed lifestyle but a poll finds Greeks and Italians among the most stressed in Europe.

27/04/2019

World

Road Trip Europe Day 30: Greek voters focused on local issues

The team concluded that the Greek voters they spoke to feel the European Union is too remote, especially in the wake of the financial crisis that they have endured.

26/04/2019

World

Road Trip Europe Day 29 Thessaloniki: 'We can’t dream here'

On the next stop of our road trip, Euronews Correspondents Bryan Carter and Fay Doulgkeri visit a university to speak to students about the upcoming European elections.

25/04/2019

World

Road Trip Europe Day 28 Larissa: 'Without funding, no crops can grow'

Correspondents Bryan Carter and Fay Doulgkeri have set off on the next leg of Euronews' road trip, speaking to Greek farmers to find out what impact EU subsidies have on local agriculture.

24/04/2019

Greece

Watch: Weber vows to 'fight nationalists' in pitch for EU's top job

The leader of the European People's Party, Manfred Weber, presented his campaign promises in a bid for the EU's top job,

23/04/2019

World

Road Trip Europe Day 27: The effects of Greece's financial crisis

Our correspondents Bryan Carter and Fay Doulgeri have set off on the next leg of Euronews' Road Trip ahead of the EU election in May. They have arrived to Metsovo in Greece where they have been asking people if they feel any improvement in their lives since the crisis that hit nearly 10 years ago.

23/04/2019

World

Breakfast with Belle in Athens: 'young voters have to be engaged'

In the run-up to the European elections, Good Morning Europe host Belle Donati is travelling across the continent to meet Members of the European Parliament in their own constituencies. She's grabbing breakfast with them to talk about how they take their coffee - and how they want to change Europe.

19/04/2019

Greece

Greece parliament demand Germany pay WWII reparations

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said demanding reparations is "a historic and moral duty and a duty in memory of the heroes of the past."

19/04/2019

Smart Regions

How Greece turned a deadly road into one of the safest in the country

In partnership with the European Commission

Discover how one of the most dangerous road sections in Greece became one of the safest highways in the country. The construction of the three new tunnels between Thessaloniki and Athens, the so-called Tempi Tunnels, included 25 km of motorway, 11 km of tunnels and the largest road tunnel

18/04/2019

Greece

Watch: Divers get access to ancient shipwreck near Greek island

The ancient cargo ship sank in the 5th century BC. It was laden with 4,000 ancient vases, probably containing wine, most of which remain intact.

09/04/2019

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Greek police fire tear gas at migrants as border convoy grows

reek police fired tear gas on Friday (April 5) to disperse migrants who had gathered in a field near the country's border with Northern Macedonia in the hope of making their way illegally up through the Balkans towards northern Europe.

07/04/2019

Greece

Watch: Pinball wizards back in action at Athens museum

Pinball was hugely popular in Greece but the craze died out 20 years ago with the rise of computer games.

04/04/2019

Greece

Europe is being attacked from inside and out, says Bernard-Henri Levy

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy said Trump and Putin were fuelling internal critics like Italy’s Matteo Salvini or France’s Marine Le Pen.

02/04/2019

Greece

Vogue magazine makes comeback in Greece as recovery looms

After seven years of absence, fashion magazine Vogue hit the newsstands in Greece on Sunday.

31/03/2019

Greece

Greek PM Tsipras says Turkish jets disturbed his flight

“They forced the helicopter I was on to manoeuvre low until Greek jets intercepted the forces violating our national air space,” Tsipras said.

25/03/2019