In pics: Refugees travelling to northern Europe are trapped in Greece
Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Turkey, Greece agree on multiple topics in İzmir meeting
The prime ministers of Turkey and Greece discussed and agreed on multiple topics during meetings held in Turkey’s Aegean coastal town of İzmir on March 8
Greece, EU/IMF lenders resume bailout talks on fiscal gap, reforms
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who has a fragile parliamentary majority, wants to conclude the review swiftly to start talks on debt relief hoping to convince an angry public that their sacrifices are paying off after six years of austerity and lure back ...
More than 12,000 refugees and migrants are stranded near the Greek village
Worsening bottlenecks at the Greek border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia mean that more than 12,000 refugees and migrants are stranded near the Greek village of Idomeni, in a makeshift transit camp that is full at five times its capacity.
PAOK fires coach Tudor over poor results, comments
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — PAOK Thessaloniki has fired coach Igor Tudor after a string of poor results and replaced him with youth team coach Vladimir Ivic.
“Why me?” to be screened at Francophonie Film Festival
The Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv and the Romanian embassy in Israel will organize the Francophonie Film Festival at the Cinema in Holon, on March 13-17. Films from Romania, France, Switzerland, Canada, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece and the Ivory Coast will be screened, with Hebrew subtitles. With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in […]
Balkan countries shut borders as attention turns to new refugee routes
Hundreds of thousands could become trapped in Greece after Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia announce frontier closures European leaders claim to have closed the main refugee route to northern Europe, raising the possibility of tens if not hundreds of thousands of refugees being trapped in Greece while the EU attempts to finalise a deal that could see them all returned to Turkey. Related: EU-Turkey refugee deal – Q&A Continue reading...