- 17:37 11/04/2013
The level of unemployment in Greece hit a record 27.2 percent in January, up 5.7 percentage points year on year, the Greek national statistics service Elstat said on Thursday.
- 04:17 11/03/2013
Greek policemen used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people gathered on Sunday night at the parliament building to protest the country’s austerity program, the Athens news agency reported.
- 04:51 14/02/2013
Greece, Albania and Italy signed an intergovernmental agreement on Wednesday to build the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) to deliver Azerbaijani gas to Europe.
- 02:44 04/02/2013
Russian military inspectors will begin on Monday a surveillance flight above Greece under the international Open Skies Treaty, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said.
- 13:59 28/01/2013
Debt-laden Cyprus, which has yet to secure bailout funds from international creditors, may spark a new flare-up of the debt crisis in Europe, Russia’s former finance minister Alexei Kudrin warned on Monday.
- 03:28 17/01/2013
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday it had approved a loan installment of 3.24 billion ($4.3 billion) for Greece.
- 12:15 14/01/2013
The chief organizer of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games on Monday revived the possibility of the Olympic flame journeying into space.
- 16:02 08/01/2013
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras exuded confidence during a visit to Berlin on Tuesday, claiming his country will do everything possible to restore financial order and investor confidence in the economy.1
- 03:27 08/01/2013
Robbers armed with Russian-designed Kalashnikov assault rifles or similar military-type assault weapons may soon face up to life in prison under new legislation drafted by the Greek Ministry of Justice, Greece’s Ethos newspaper reported.
- 19:48 18/12/2012
Russia and Greece on Tuesday signed a protocol to the EU-Russia Readmission Agreement, a key step in the establishment of a visa free regime between the EU and Russia.
- 05:46 17/12/2012
Greece has finished construction of a fence along the 12.5-km (8-mile) stretch of its land border with Turkey to curb illegal migration, the Athens News Agency (ANA) said citing company-contractor of the project.
- 16:38 13/12/2012
Eurozone finance ministers approved a 49.1 billion-euro ($64 billion) rescue package for Greece at their meeting on Thursday, to keep Athens' debt-saddled economy afloat.
- 17:24 06/12/2012
Standard & Poor’s has cut Greece’s 'CCC' long-term and 'C' short-term sovereign credit ratings to 'SD' (selective default) following the Greek government’s offer to buy back its debt at a steep discount, the international rating agency announced on Thursday.
- 18:42 03/12/2012
Greece said on Monday it would spend up to 10 billion euros ($13 billion) to buy back its outstanding bonds at a steep discount, in a bid to cut debt and unlock much-needed bailout aid.
- 18:25 30/11/2012
The German Bundestag approved on Friday the latest rescue package for Greece amid growing fears over that country's eurozone future.1
- 13:15 27/11/2012
Greece will use fresh loans for debt buyback at discounted prices, Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said on Tuesday after eurozone finance ministers and the IMF reached a deal on a much-needed bailout for the country.
- 12:40 27/11/2012
In the midst of talks over the Greek financial crisis European Council President Herman Van Rompuy turned to haiku.
- 06:51 27/11/2012
Eurozone finance ministers said in a statement on Tuesday that the next tranche of financial aid for crisis-hit Greece will be disbursed next month.
- 14:23 26/11/2012
The Greek finance ministry’s economic crimes department is probing the bank accounts of two top officials of the Greek Orthodox Church in a tax evasion investigation, the Ethnos newspaper reported on Monday.
