Greece

Greece

Powerful quake permanently moves Greek Island by 3 centimetres

The Greek island of Zakynthos has shifted at least 3 c.m. southwest after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the island on Friday.

29/10/2018

Greece

Big earthquake near Greece felt as far away as Italy and Libya

Greece appears to have escaped relatively unscathed after a powerful earthquake struck in the early hours of Friday.

26/10/2018

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Watch: Giant spider web envelops coastline of Greek lake

Spiders have been keeping busy at Lake Vistonida in north-eastern Greece. Over the last few days large webs, spreading for hundreds of meters across the lake's coastline, have blanketed the entire landscape. The trees and shrubs have been completely wrapped in spooky grey webs.

21/10/2018

Greece

Greece's foreign minister resigns

Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias was Athen’s main negotiator regarding the June accord with Skopje to rename Greece’s northern neighbour North Macedonia

17/10/2018

Greece

Greece: 11 people die in head-on collision

It's thought 10 were migrants travelling in a mini-van close to the city of Kavala in the north-east of the country. The accident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning.

13/10/2018

Greece

58 shipwrecks with over 300 treasures are found in Greece

Almost 60 shipwrecks dating from ancient Greece to the 20th century have been found in the Aegean sea.

12/10/2018

Cult

Athens: Richard Bellia photography exhibition of music

Richard Bellia show cases his art of a musical journey of 36 years of rock. Music is his passion

11/10/2018

Greece

Greece to renew call for Germany to pay €279 billion in WWII damages

Greece's President is expected to raise the issue during a meeting this week with his German counterpart.

10/10/2018

Greece

Euroviews. As women, we have to fight to achieve our rights | View

How surviving the perilous journey to Europe gave a young Afghan women the courage to make her voice heard.

05/10/2018

Greece

Southern Greece is lashed by Storm Zorba

A search and rescue operation has been launched after swirling winds and torrential rain has brought flash floods in Greece

30/09/2018

Greece

Three people missing as cyclone brings flash floods in Greece

Three people were reported missing in Greece on Sunday after swirling winds and torrential rain brought flash floods in several parts of the country.

30/09/2018

World

Greece battens downs hatches for "Medicane" cyclone

Greece battens downs hatches for "Medicane" cyclone

28/09/2018

Greece

Gay activist dies in Athens after brutal public beating

Accounts differ about the circumstances leading up to the death of Zak Kostopoulos, a 33-year-old Greek LGBTQ activist and drag performer.

26/09/2018

Greece

Watch: Personal stories of refugee families trapped on Lesbos

Euronews spoke to refugee families who are living in extremely poor conditions in Moria, the largest camp on the island of Lesbos.

23/09/2018

Greece

Child migrant arrivals at Greek islands 'soar by one-third in 2018'

On average, more than 850 children arrived on the Greek islands each month between January and August.

21/09/2018

Greece

Aid group alarmed at rising mental health issues in Greek migrant camp

More than 9,000 people live in the Moria camp — three times its official capacity.

21/09/2018

World

Moria refugee camp conditions "not meeting the minimum requirements"

One of Europe's largest migrant camps is overcrowded and lacks basic hygiene and sanitation practises. It's grown so large, refugees are pitching tents outside the camp boundaries. Crime is so rife MSF has called for minors to be removed. This is Moria Refugee Camp.

20/09/2018

Greece

In pictures: Eerie spiderweb covers entire shoreline in Greece

A huge spiderweb is covering 300 metres of vegetation in Aetoliko, Greece

19/09/2018

Greece

Nine thousand aslyum seekers camped at Lesbos

Meanwhile, 2,000 asylum-seekers will be moved from the island to the Greek mainland by the end of the month. That's according to Greek authorities. It's after human rights groups and local authorities criticised Greece for the poor conditions at the camp at Moria

19/09/2018

Greece

An antifascist rally has taken place on the Greek island of Lesvos

The rally commemorates the 5th anniversary of the death of Pavlos Fyssas, a Greek anti-fascist rapper who was murdered in 2013 by a member of the far-right political party Golden Dawn.

19/09/2018

Greece

Greek camp at Moria: reaching boiling point

NGO's and human rights groups have urged Greece to take action to render its camps fit for human habitation as Moria camp on the island of Lesbos exceeds capacity of 3,200 to over 9,000 asylum seekers

19/09/2018

Greece

Worsening conditions in Greek migrant camp

The Greek island of Lesbos has been hosting thousands of migrants since the crisis in 2015. But now, many of these refugee camps are facing dire conditions - overcapacity, lack of facilities and a less hospitable tone from locals.

19/09/2018

Economy

Tsipras blames neo-liberal policies & EU's "democratic deficit" for rise of far-right

The Greek Prime Minister speaks about austerity, debt, migration and much more in a wide-ranging interview with The Global Conversation.

13/09/2018

Greece

7 injured after rockfall on Greek island of Zakynthos,

At least seven people were injured in Greece on Thursday after a huge piece of rock fell down into the sea, spreading panic on the island of Zakynthos.

13/09/2018

Cinema

Pasolini restrospective in screening series

He’s the filmmaker behind classics like "120 days of Sodom", and now Pier Pasolini has a retrospective called "The Great Heretic". It will screen 17 restored versions of his films in Athens, Greece. But how relevant is Pasolini today?

13/09/2018

Greece

EU's democratic deficit to blame for far-right rise, Tspiras tells Euronews

Greek PM says Europe has created the environment for illiberalism to flourish.

12/09/2018