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Can Turkey and Greece resolve their maritime dispute? | Inside Story
The two countries have resumed talks over rights in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.
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Real Stuff: Greece to sail past troubled waters
Greece’s Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis has a plan for when the country exits it’s Eurozone bailout lifeline! His booklet on Greece’s strategy for growth he says will help the country sail, like it’s strong shipping fleet out of...
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Greece charts a fresh course
The ruins of ancient Greece have come to symbolize for the world sky high debt with bailouts, 450 reforms, 4 governments in eight years and austerity that is unimaginable in the modern world. But cautiously – and despite repayments due...
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Greek rescue crews continue to search for missing fire victims
Devastating fires across south cause widespread damage, more than 79 dead
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Greece wildfires: Seven hundred people rescued by boat
Hundreds of people in Greece ran to the sea to save their lives from the wildfires as at least 60 people have now died and the numbers keep rising hourly. Around 700 people were rescued from the coast of Rafina. A Navy Frigate retrieved...
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How Erasmus gives young entrepreneurs a leg-up in business
Young entrepreneurs often have difficulty establishing a strong business plan and finding effective technical options. Well, there is a solution. Business Planet went to Athens to find out about a programme called Erasmus for Young...
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Greece's economy at a turning point?
The Greek economy may be reaching a turning point. At a Eurozone meeting this Thursday in Luxembourg, Finance Ministers will settle the final roadmap for Greece's debt relief programme. The Mediterranean nation has had 8 years of...
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Eurozone Finance Ministers Weigh Up Debt Relief for Greece
Finance ministers from across the Eurozone have met in Luxembourg. They were celebrating the 20th anniversary since they first all got together, but also a turning point in the Greek economy. Economic reforms have delivered it from an...
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Cuts in the east, hikes in the south - EU funding plans revealed
Hungary and Poland have had their fair share of spats with Brussels - and now they're set to have EU funding cut. While the European Commission plans would see reductions in cohesion cash going to the east, more would be spent in the...
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EU migration - 'failure no longer an option'
Cracks have emerged in the EU because of migration. And now there's pressure from the European Parliament to fix the broken asylum system, seen as one of the root causes of the bloc's problems. "European citizens have shown us in the...
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Greek National Opera presents 'Nabucco'
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens will play host to Verdi's Nabucco , presented by the Greek National Opera from Friday, as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival . Nabucco tells the story of the struggle between the Hebrews and...
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Meet the Ikarians: the Greeks who outlive other Europeans
Ikaria is a Greek island in the Aegean sea known not only for its natural beauty but for its really old people. The island forms part of the blue zone areas — parts of the world where inhabitants live longer than anywhere else. The blue...
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Details revealed of latest Greek bailout
Lenders in the Euro zone say they plan to put together a debt relief deal for Greece which will be credible to international investors. Chairman of euro zone finance ministers group, Mario Centeno, speaking on the sidelines of the G7...
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Greece: Reforms needed beyond bailout, say Eurozone ministers
After Jean Claude Juncker's visit to Athens where he announced "good news" for Greece, talking of a "clean exit" from its bailout programme in the summer, it's been the turn of Eurozone Finance Ministers to discuss the state of play....
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Clashes erupt as protesters try to topple Truman statue in Athens
Clashes between riot police and anti-war protesters broke out on Monday, two days after the US, UK and France launched airstrikes on Syria. The protesters, part of the Greek Communist Party, had attempted to bring down a 3.5-metre statue...
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Europe's largest wooden building at risk of collapse
The Prinkipo Greek Orphanage is the largest wooden construction in Europe and the second largest in the world. Located in Büyükada, one of the nine Princes’ Islands off the coast of Istanbul, it was built in 1898. The building housed an...
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Watch how the Evros river floods parts of Greece and Turkey
Greece has declared a state of emergency in its northern border with Turkey after an overflowing Evros river reached peak levels and flooded the area last Friday. The river also engulfed riverbanks and fields in Edirne — near Turkey’s...
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Migrants stranded in Greece march against racism
Thousands of protesters, many of them migrants stranded in Greece, took to the streets of Athens to march against racism. The protesters chanted "open the borders" and marched and waved handmade placards. It's after sixteen migrants...
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Brief from Brussels: Greece asks EU to help free soldiers held in Turkey
In this edition of the Brief from Brussels: Greece calls for EU to help free two soldiers arrested in Turkey; and Belgian residents get free iodine pills, in case of a nuclear disaster.
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Watch: Timelapse of Athens shows a city in change
This timelapse from scenes of Alexandros Maragos' new film, "City of Athens — a Portrait of a Changing Metropolis", shows the changing skyline of the Greek capital. "I had the concept of this film in my mind for many years. I wanted very...
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Greece calls on EU to help free soldiers arrested in Turkey
Greece is calling on the EU and others to help secure the release of two of its soldiers arrested in Turkey last week. Athens says the pair had been on a border patrol, when they strayed because of bad weather. "Turkey is a member of...
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Brief: Juncker backs Spitzenkandidaten and Turkey looks to ease Aegean spat
This is the Brief from Brussels, a roundup of the top stories from the EU’s de facto political capital. In today’s edition, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker backs the Spitzenkandidat, or lead candidate, process in the...
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Incoming Eurogroup president will bring new style to old problems
A week into his new job as Eurogroup president, Portugal's Mario Centeno will lead Monday's meeting of eurozone finance ministers. Top of the agenda, financial assistance for Greece. "Greece still has a pretty tough time to refinance in...
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Mycenaean tomb found in Greece
One of the largest Mycenaean tombs was brought into light this summer, on a mountainside in central Greece. It is a major archaeological discovery, which will shed new light on Mycenaean funeral practices. The monumental chamber tomb...