Greece
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Rains threaten major Greek highways with rock falls
Less than a month after a major rockfall at Tempe in central Greece led to an engineer’s death and the closure of a section of the Athens-Thessaloniki national road, engineers h
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PM: New start, major changes now
Samaras: the problem is not the first 100 days that were lost but the days that are coming
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Traders high hopes for winter sales
The Greek winter sales started on Friday with expectations that the winter sales will feature sales items discounted by between 50 and 60 percent.
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Greeks order ships despite downturn
Greek shipowners charted a course against the current of the international crisis, ordering a relatively high number of new and used vessels last year and despite the considerab
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Brussels attacks Greece over false data
The European Union’s statistics arm accuses Greece of deliberately misreporting a range of financial and economic data.
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Greek PM: Support for quake-devastated Haiti
Earthquake ravaged Haiti, the first nation to recognise 1821 Greek Independence, will be supported by Greece.
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Papandreou pushes ahead with major local government reforms
The proposed overhaul of local government in Greece has attracted criticism from the opposition parties as well as from within the ranks of the governing party.
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Bomb explodes outside Greek parliament
A bomb exploded outside Greece’s parliament building in central Athens in a well policed area where some of the capital best hotels and finance ministry are located.
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Debate on religious symbols heats up
The public debate about whether crucifixes and religious icons should be displayed in Greece’s classrooms is set to intensify after it was revealed last week that the country’s Omb
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New Democracy supports corruption investigations
New Democracy will support the government’s bid to open fresh parliamentary investigations into five major corruption scandals despite previous suggestions that it would go against