Greece

Recently re-elected German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke at the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung‘s conference in Berlin on Thursday evening, where Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is also scheduled to deliver a speech. The German leader expressed her admiration for the efforts and achievement of a primary surplus in Greece, noting that “the changes are important”. Mrs. […]

The Greek national football team drew 1-1 with Romania last night, triumphantly qualifying for a third time for a World Cup and so Greece will be amongst the world’s finest at the international football competition in Brazil next year. Fernando Santos’s starting eleven was Karnezis, Torosidis, Cholebas, Papastathopoulos, Siovas, Karagounis, Tziolis, Maniatis, Salpingidis, Samaras and […]

In what was perhaps its most spectacular performance in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, Greece trounced the Romanian national team 3-1 at the Karaiskakis stadium on Friday, making the second leg of the knock-out phase more of a formality. With forwards Kostas Mitroglou and Dimitris Salpingidis on top performance, Greece found itself ahead early on […]

The Greek national football team will face Romania tonight at 21:45 at the “Karaiskakis” stadium in Piraeus, for the second round of UEFA qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The second game will take place in Bucharest on Tuesday. Coach Fernando Santos, who expects the stands to be packed with fans, will […]

German NGO Pro Asyl released a study on the human rights violations of refugees in the Aegean and the Greek-Turkish land borders. The NGO’s study reveals shocking reports about the conduct of authorities, which in certain cases could be classified as torture. Pro Asyl’s study took place over a year and was based on interviews […]

The President of European Parliament Martin Schulz gave an interview to Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica, where he professed that “it is not enough to apologize” and that responsibilities must be assumed for the austerity programs implemented in Greece, Spain, Ireland and Cyprus. The German politician explain that, at the time, austerity had been presented […]

Austrian MEP Othmar Karas and French MEP Liêm Hoang Ngoc are in charge of the European Parliament’s transparency investigation of the troika in countries receiving European financial assistance, which is expected to commence on the 5th of November and be complete before the upcoming European elections. Mr. Karas, who is a member of the Austrian […]

The recent case of young Maria has brought up again the serious matter of discrimination and prejudice against Roma gypsies across Europe. A 2009 survey showed how Roma gypsies were the minority suffering the greatest degrees of discrimination and prejudice in Europe. According to the survey 55% of respondents in Greece stated that they had […]

According to the latest data published by European statistics authority Eurostat, the public debt of Greece during the first semester of 2013 was estimated to be 160.5% of GDP and rose to 169.1% in the second semester of the year. Greece has the highest debt rate in the EU, followed by Italy (133.3%), Portugal (131.3%) […]

Greece completed its group stage qualifying matches with a 2-0 victory against Lichtenstein, but was unable to secure the top place in the group after Bosnia beat Lithuania. Fernando Santos’ squad took an early lead in the game after a play by José Holebas and Giorgos Samaras allowed striker Dimitris Salpingidis to score a goal […]

Greek basketball and the AEK sports club mourn the loss of veteran Giorgos Amerikanos, who passed away in the early hours of Monday at the age of 71. Giorgos Amerikanos is widely considered one of Greece’s greatest basketball players, having participated in AEK B.C.’s 1968 European Cup win, which resulted in a huge surge of […]

According to a study by the Gallup Institute for the “Debating Europe” platform, 51% of Europeans believe that the austerity policies implemented to combat the crisis have failed, while 5% believes the opposite and 34% believes that more time is needed for the policies to succeed. As expected, the highest rates of discontent regarding the […]

According to diplomatic sources the “Spartan” budget of the upcoming Greek EU presidency in the first half of 2014 will not exceed 50 million euros, compared to the 60 and 80 million euros that were budgeted for the recent Irish and Cypriot presidencies respectively. This will be the fifth time that Greece assumes leadership of […]

On Tuesday the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Greek citizens Ioannis and Evangelos Fokas in their case against Turkey, in relation to an inheritance. According to the case file, the Turkish authorities did not allow to the two Greeks, who live in Katerini, to collect the real estate inheritance of their […]

Interview by Achilles Hekimoglou The sale of Vodafone’s stake in Verizon, namely the third biggest deal in the history of mankind, was the right thing to do and a part of the price of this transaction will be invested in new generation networks in Europe. This is what the Vodafone Group CEO, Vittorio Colao stated […]

Government vice president Venizelos and Italian Prime Minister Leta have agreed to begin negotiations for establishing an EEZ and other marine zones between Greece and Italy. According to a report from Ta Nea, the ultimate goal of Athens and Rome is to highlight the Mediterranean and maritime perspectives of the European south. The two countries […]

Greece was defeated 92-88 by Croatia yesterday after two overtime periods and as such will not be progressing to the next phase of the EuroBasket competition in Slovenia. Despite the enthusiasm of the Greek team, with “usual suspects” Bourousis and Spanoulis leading the way for Greece (21 and 18 points respectively), Andrea Trinchieri’s squad was […]

The Greek adventure at the 2013 EuroBasket in Slovenia looks like it is going to come to an abrupt end, after the national team lost 73-65 to hosts Slovenia on Saturday. Andrea Trinchieri’s squad had a nightmare start and was trailing 27-43 in the first half of the game. The Greek team managed to balance […]

Despite a shock defeat by Finland on Monday (77-86), which cast doubts over the Greek players’ resolve, Greece managed to end 15 years of “bad luck” last night by defeating Spain (79-75), the reigning European champions. Andrea Trinchieri’s team faced problems against the star-studded Spanish side early on the game and was trailing 10 points […]

Greece’s 1-0 victory against Latvia last night at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus was a decisive step towards qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Fernando Santos’ side showed its teeth early on in the game and had many opportunities to score goals with Samaras, Salpingidis and Mitroglou unable to capitalize on their performance. […]