Europe

According to data released from Eurostat, the Greek prefectures of Evrytania, Grevena, Arta and Serres are among the 10 European prefectures with the highest percentage of elderly over 65 years old for 2013. Evrytania, in central Greece, with the elderly reaching...

US Vice President Joe Biden recently spoke of a “new opportunity” for a “win-win” breakthrough involving Turkey, Cyprus, and Israel, and the construction of a gas “pipeline” from the Levant Basin gas fields to Greece and Europe.   The remarks came during Biden's...

Over the course of the next few weeks, London's filmgoers and Greek community will have the opportunity to watch a variety of contemporary Greek or Greek-related films and documentaries. Screenings take place at Westbourne Studios, near the famous Portobello market. The...

Virginia Green, head of the German company ENCOS GmbH, has just been declared Germany's "Manager of the Year." Born "Giovanoudi" in the northern Greek city of Didymoteicho, the Greek manager was awarded by the international certification company TUV NORD. Green has specialized knowledge of...

Famous Greek-origin TV personality Tulisa Contostavlos is reportedly dating Cypriot millionaire Costas Panayiotou. According to the Mirror, the former X Factor judge has been on several dates with the 24-year-old son of Greek-Cypriot property tycoon Andreas ­Panayiotou, whose fortune amounts to £400m. "They really hit...

A Greek jeweler in Paris, France, was the victim of a major fraud, as thieves paid him with Monopoly money. according to French newspaper Le Parisian, several weeks ago, two thieves who claimed they were French, contacted the Greek man to...

The rich library of the Greek Orthodox Halki seminary, which includes some of the world's oldest printed books, will be digitized. The seminary library numbers 69,000 volumes. While most of the books date back to the 18th and 19th century, there is...

In a recent interview to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, German MEP Gabi Zimmer, leader of left-wing Die Linke in European Parliament, argued that Germany must pay war reparations to Greece, for damages caused by the Nazi occupation. Zimmer said that her party has...

Journalists from major Turkish newspapers (Hürriyet, Sabah, Zaman, Taraf, Doğan Haber Ajansı etc.), visited the seminary of Halki, which participates in the European program "Minority Citizens-Equal Citizens." The seminary abbot, Metropolitan Elpidoforos of Bursa, welcomed the journalists and presented the work...

In the wake of a recent decision ratified by the Council of the Vakoufia General Directorate, the Turkish state has agreed to return eleven plots of land – measuring two to four acres each – to the community of...