Europe

A 220 million euro loan to Greece was announced on Friday by the International Investment Bank to fund civil protection.

The state of ties between Greece and Russia is dire. The negative energy is evident in the words and deeds of both parties. The Greek government ordered all its embassies abroad to refrain from inviting diplomats from Belarus and Russia...

Greece and Turkey on Thursday will formally join the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI), a German-led missile defense project, according to Minister of Defense Nikos Dendias. ESSI is a project to build a ground-based integrated European air defense system that...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country's history.

The St. Pancras New Church is a Greek Revival church in the Bloomsbury/St. Pancras neighborhood in London. Even though its name suggests otherwise, it was built between 1819 and 1922 and was designed by William Inwood and his son,...

December 13, 1943 marks the date of the worst massacre committed in Greece by the Nazis occupying the country, as more than five hundred innocent civilians were executed, and the entire town of Kalavryta was burned to the ground. The...

Jane Digby, who later became Lady Ellenborough, was one of the most famous adventuresses of her times, even having an affair with King Otto of Greece—and his father—and then going off to live in a cave with the Greek...

Greece leads the European Union in smartphone recycling, boasting an almost 18 percent recycling rate, as per Eurostat data. This surpasses the EU average, where only 10 percent of Europeans recycle their old mobile phones. Eurostat findings highlight Greece, Austria...

The Derveni Papyrus found in northern Greece is of immense importance, registered by UNESCO in 2015 as the oldest handwritten "book" in Europe

A letter sent by a former German soldier helped spur the restoration of Agios Dionysios Monastery on Mount Olympus which had been destroyed by the Nazis during WWII. It was one day in 1996 when prior Maximos of the New...

Police in Greece arrested 21 Italian neo-fascists at the Athens airport on Tuesday evening as they arrived to commemorate the killings of two Greek members of the Golden Dawn party in 2013. Police say that the group was comprised of...

President of France Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that talks were being held within the EU with Cyprus and Greece to build up a “humanitarian coalition” regarding Gaza. Speaking after a European Union summit in Brussels, Macron said: “Cyprus could...

Clocks in Greece and the rest of the EU go back an hour on Sunday as daylight saving time ends. At 4 AM on Sunday, Greek time clocks will be set for 3 AM. The transition occurs as the EU’s...

The island of Crete in Greece has been chosen as the location for the opening of the first European Aquatic Animal Protection Center. The decision was announced after discussions between Greek Agriculture Minister Lefteris Avgenakis and EU Commissioner for Health...

The European Central Bank (ECB) meeting in Greece, left interest rates unchanged on Thursday, after an unprecedented streak of 10 consecutive rate hikes. The ECB has lifted rates by a combined 4.5 percentage points since July 2022 to combat runaway...