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Brief from Brussels: Greece asks EU to help free soldiers held in Turkey

France

Watch: Timelapse of Athens shows a city in change

Timelapse footage shows the changing skyline of the Greek capital.

World News

Juncker calls on FYROM to sort out naming dispute with Greece

Jean-Claude Juncker says the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia must resolve its long-standing naming dispute with Greece if the country wants to open EU membership talks

World News

Hungary's ranking slides in latest Corruption Perceptions Index

Hungary slipped 10 points in the last six years, which the Director of Transparency International EU said should serve as a warning to other members of the bloc.

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Iran

They said he was dead, but a traffic jam had actually saved his life

One scheduled passenger had a lucky escape.

World News

"It was so cold, it felt like an arrow through my heart"

A Turkish asylum-seeker describes the moment the flimsy vessel carrying him and others capsized while crossing the Evros River to Greece.

Turkey

'I did not hear a single voice after we sank' survivor of capsized boa

Fatih Yasar is the only known survivor of a capsized boat fleeing Turkey.

Europe News

Brief: Juncker backs Spitzenkandidaten and Turkey looks to ease Aegean spat

This is the Brief from Brussels, a roundup of the top stories from the EU's de facto political capital.

Greece

Turkey looks to ease Aegean tensions

In 1996, the tiny, uninhabited islands of Imia - or Kardak, as they are known in Turkey - brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war - and tensions have remained high ever since. Now Turkey is trying to calm the waters.

Greece

EU Comissioner says he was framed in Novartis scandal

Greek prosecutors say some Greek officials accepted money from Novartis.

Republic of North Macedonia

Greece's foreign minister on FYROM-name dispute

Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias speaks exclusively to Euronews about the decades-long 'Macedonia' dispute.

Greece

Greek PM, opposition at odds over Skopje talks

Greece believes the name Macedonia implies a territorial claim over its own northern region of that name

Greece

Greek lawmakers approve more austerity measures

Defending the multi-bill in parliament, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the conclusion of the third review that is expected this month signifies the "closure of a long and difficult cycle."

Italy

Greek and Italian leaders meet ahead of Southern Europe summit

Greece and Italy have long been engaged in a tug of war with parts of Central Europe, the so-called "Visegrád group" who are opposed to the sharing of refugees among all European partners.

Greece

Greece removes century-old obligation for Muslims to use Sharia law

The 1920 Treaty of Sevres and the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne stipulated that Islamic customs and religious law would apply to the thousands of Muslims who became Greek citizens

Greece

Greece and FYROM in renewed bid to resolve name dispute

Senior ministers meeting in Athens resolve to settle the long-standing dispute over FYROM’s name within six months.

Greece

Twitter blocks account of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party

Golden Dawn described the decision as a "brutal undemocratic act"

Greece

Greece considers fate of Turkish coup soldiers

Athens has not ruled out extradition to a third country.

Republic of North Macedonia

Macedonia - it's complicated

Said in a second, the name has been argued over for decades and impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Greece

14-year-old refugee from Syria dreams of Paralympics

In Syria, a bomb attack left Najib Alhaj Ali paralysed. He fled with his family across the Mediterranean to Greece, where para sports gave him hope for a better life.