The Greek coalition government recently decided to change the rules for the upcoming European elections, abolishing the existing party list system and replacing it with the direct election of MEPs.

Shower you friends and family in some beloved Greek-style comfort when next you entertain, and cook a Greek feast worthy of the gods. For some hands-on Hellenic feasting ideas, our favourite Greek ...

Zakynthos, also known as Zante, is the third largest and southernmost Greek island in the Ionian Sea off the western coast of the mainland. The island is a tourist destination, especially among ...

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Greece‘s governing center-right party has removed a lawmaker and former minister who allegedly manhandled an airport worker who wouldn’t let him board a domestic flight he’d turned up late for.

The artwork, which depicts the Greek goddess Ariadne, was created to show a sculpture in transit while wrapped in a dust sheet and tied with ropes. Concerns were first raised over the sculpture by ...

Fireworks launched from a yacht party have been blamed for a forest fire that broke out on the Greek island of Hydra. The blaze engulfed the only pine forest on the island, which lies south of ...