Greece
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Greek municipalities embrace housing programme for asylum seekers
The programme provides refugees with a year’s prepaid rent in selected apartments.
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Tourist season a stress test for Greek ports
Years of insufficient investment in infrastructure has resulted in ports being unable to accommodate the huge number of passengers coming through.
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Greek economic sentiment indicator on the rise
The European Commission’s Greek economic sentiment index reached its highest level since February 2015.
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Former Greek Statistic Bureau head found guilty of breach of faith
Andreas Georgiou accused of intentionally inflating Greece’s 2009 deficit figures.
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Pyrros Dimas: ‘Syriza made me leave Greece’
The Olympic weightlifting champion and former MP has blamed the Greek government for his decision to seek employment in the US.
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BBC laments the decline of Greek ‘whistling’ language
Residents of Antia in Evia have been using a whistled language to communicate across distant valleys for 2,500 years.
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Ancient DNA reveals living Greeks are descendants of Mycenaeans
The study’s findings have dispelled various scholars’ claims that call into question whether modern Greeks are descendants of the ancients.
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‘Love you Greece’
Kris Jenner cruises the Greek islands with the Hilfigers and her boyfriend.