A meeting between Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Sunday ended with the French president’s pledge for solidarity toward Greece and Sarkozy’s call to Greece’s European partners to show their support, stressing that this solidarity was precisely the reason why the Eurozone and the euro had been established [...]

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As we reported yesterday, two people were killed and six injured when a 26-foot “rogue wave” struck the Maltese-flagged, Greek Cypriot-owned Louis Majesty cruise ship in the Mediterranean.
Rogue waves aren’t unknown in the high seas, and the incident won’t be the first. But this being the day and age of video everywhere, where there’s a [...]

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Greek and Cypriot officials say 8-metre waves have crashed into a cruise ship with nearly 2,000 people on board off France, smashing glass windshields and killing two passengers.
Another six people suffered injuries, a Greek coast guard statement says.
It says the accident occurred near the French Mediterranean port of Marseilles on Wednesday as the Cypriot-owned Louis [...]

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Greek diva Nana Mouskouri has offered to donate the pension she gets as a former member of the European parliament as part of a drive to help the country tackle a huge debt crisis, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.
The donation follows widespread calls for rich Greeks to contribute to a national fund to help [...]

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Trikala born Father Theodoros Papanikolaou has spent his life to serve the Greeks in the region of Bordeaux, France and to strengthen and support Greek-French friendship. A few months ago, the mayor of Agen (a municipality in Bordeaux) warded Father Papanikolaou with the Giold Medal, in recognition for his 20 years of service in cementing [...]

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Greek philosopher Kostas Axelos died in the early hours of Thursday in Paris at the age of 85.
Born in Athens in 1924, he attended highschool at the French Institute and German School of Athens, and later enrolled in Law School to pursue law and economics studies, but became involved in politics with [...]

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