Europe

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced that the Silver Cup awarded to Spyros Louis, the first Marathon Winner at the inaugural Modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896, has been temporarily moved to Switzerland. The cup will be exhibited at...

The International Insular Film Festival that took place in the French island of Groix, paid tribute to Crete and Nikos Kazantzakis. The festival was essentially dedicated to the Greek islands. It included the presentation of a documentary series about Ikaria, Lesvos,...

European Union leaders on Saturday chose Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to chair their Council and named Italian Federica Mogherini to run the bloc's foreign relations, as the EU prepared to threaten Russia with new sanctions over Ukraine. EU summit...

A recent survey by Boston Consulting Group showed that the world's wealthy people represent just 0.7% of the global population and control 41% of the global wealth. This week, "Vox" released a map with the richest people in Europe. According to...

Hester Reeve, a lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, is working with local groups to create a series of free activities at a park near Barnsley on Saturday, August 30. His project called YMEDACA aims to transform the Yorkshire...

The differences between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYRoM) on the latter's name must be "resolved urgently," participants at an EU-Western Balkans meeting in Berlin agreed on Thursday. The meeting was organized by Germany and sought to...

According to Greece's Foreign Ministry, the Greek Consulate in Mariupol, Ukraine, will urgently be transferred from Mariupol to Dnipropetrovsk, due to the hostilities in the region, after the Consul General's request. "Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos has accepted the proposal of...

The time when newspapers used to report that Greeks were painting swastikas on images of Chancellor Angela Merkel, making German tourists feel unwelcome in Greece, are in the past, stressed German Travel Association (DRV) president Norbert Fiebig to "Ruhr Nachrichten" newspaper. Fiebig said that...

A recent article of Turkish newspaper "Hurriyet" revealed that a historic building in the town of Marmara, Turkey, which was being used as a Greek school in the 19th century, has been turned into an imam-hatip school, a religious vocational school, after remaining closed...

Turkish newspaper "Hurriyet" proceeded with complaints over the extended loot of a Byzantine tomb known as Silivri Crypt, the desecration of the tomb and its conversion into a garbage dump. The newspaper is accusing the Municipality of Istanbul of neglecting the Byzantine...