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Cyprus peace talks collapse over differences
Feb 17, 2017 11:07Reunification talks between Greek and Turkish Cypruses have crashed abruptly over bitter difference between the two sides.
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Greek PM urges IMF to revise its forecast
Feb 11, 2017 11:27Greece has warned the International Monetary Fund and Germany to “stop playing with fire" in the handling of the country's debt crisis.
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Dozens of stranded refugees in Greek capital protest over living conditions
Feb 06, 2017 14:14Dozens of stranded refugees, among them many children, have held a massive protest rally over their poor living conditions in the Greek capital, Athens.
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Turkey to reconsider EU deal after Greek refusal to return coup suspects
Jan 27, 2017 10:47Turkey says it has decided to reconsider its controversial refugee deal with the European Union in a row with Greece over the repatriation of eight coup suspects.
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Far-right Greek MP leads raid into primary school in Athens
Jan 18, 2017 09:05Several members of a far-right Greek party headed by a prominent MP have raided a primary school in Athens to prevent the staff from admitting refugee children in classrooms.
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Gang forging passports for refugees busted in Greece
Dec 13, 2016 01:36Greek and British authorities say they have broken up an international criminal network suspected of supplying hundreds of illegal refugees striving to reach the UK and northern European countries with forged travel documents.
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Greek parliament to approve new cuts for 2017
Dec 10, 2016 11:23Greece's parliament is to approve a new set of cuts and tax hikes for the next year as Athens struggles to secure fresh funds from international creditors.
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EU advises members to resume returning refugees to Greece
Dec 08, 2016 11:17The European Union says its member states can resume returning the asylum seekers spread across the continent to Greece from March 2017 in an effort to restore the bloc’s refugee policies, which collapsed under a mass influx last year.
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General strike in Greece over planned budget cuts
Dec 08, 2016 08:49Labor unions in Greece have gone on a general strike in protest at a new round of austerity measures demanded by the European Union (EU) and international lenders.
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Eurozone ministers gives short-term debt relief to Greece
Dec 06, 2016 09:47Eurozone finance ministers have approved extending Greece's debt repayment period without cutting the crippling debt burden overall.