I just spent Easter with my Greek family in Piraeus. After all the doom and gloom in the media I expected the worst -- derelict shops, depressed faces and general chaos. I couldn't have been further from the truth.
Unemployment in the eurozone is at historic highs. Economic growth data are equally depressing while confidence is low among producers and consumers. In short, the stock market rallies of recent months are premature.
The family of a missing marathon runner in Greece say they are "increasingly concerned" for his safety. Experienced endurance athlete John Lawton, ...
On Wednesday 3 April, at 9am, in the centre of Athens, outside the Syntagma Square metro and opposite parliament, a 77-year-old man named Dimitris Christoulas committed suicide. He was seriously ill. He was finding it difficult to come to terms with life in Greece in 2012.
The unwritten rules of decorum state it is impolite to discuss sex, politics or religion at dinner parties. I would like to add one more topic to that list - cultural repatriation. Now, just months from the Olympics, the campaign is being stepped up once more for the return of the Elgin Marbles to the Greek nation...
As concerns rise over the eurozone fiscal treaty, Stefan Kaszubowski and Peter Kellner consider the results from YouGov's latest poll of 68 finance professionals including Hedge Fund Managers, Investment Bank Traders, Analysts, Investment Bankers and Investment Fund Managers.
While the Liberal leadership struggled to head off grass root opposition to the coalition's plans for the national health service at its party conference, the SNP leadership, at its own conference in Glasgow, was able to talk about a renaissance in Scottish industry.
Greece has closed a landmark deal with bondholders to help ease its debt burden, in a move that could see investors take on losses of up to 74%. Th...
Europe may have averted imminent disaster last month with its €130 billion bailout of Greece. But in this latest stopgap, European officials are repeating many of the mistakes their forebears made more than a century ago in their handling of debt crises in southern neighbours.
Another day, another social presence for someone living in Greece to fear. As if there wasn't enough fear making the rounds already.
The euro, while a bold idea, is being tested at the moment. Whilst British exposure to Greek debt is more limited, there are a number of countries where their banks are more disposed to the possibility of Greek default.
What's going on in Greece right now brings to my mind the middle age. It's all a terrible mess of financial politics and economics and banks and inte...
Eurozone governments finally came to the rescue of Greece on Tuesday, approving a second massive bail-out after months of wrangling and a last round o...
Haggling over the final terms for another Greek bail-out was keeping eurozone ministers at the negotiating table in Brussels late on Monday night. ...
Eurozone ministers are meeting in Brussels to try and agree a second bailout deal for Greece, as the troubled country teeters on the brink of bankrupt...
The recent fusillade of economic figures and announcements have undoubtedly done very little to ease the burden of consumer and investor uncertainty in the economy. The business pages of the papers continue to exceed the boundaries of repetition as every statistic and number seems to be a perfectly designed metaphor to create a sense of foreboding in the economy, as if there isn't enough already.
Robbers in Greece have stolen dozens of artefacts of "incalculable value" from a museum in Ancient Olympia. Local officials said the Archaeological...
The mainstream media image, which has emerged from the triangulations of the volatile European financial landscape, seems to promote a clear North South divide. The hotter countries of the south Mediterranean, such as Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal are portrayed as having cultivated a languid and hedonistic lifestyle among their citizens.
This is the harrowing moment a female office worker climbed onto a window ledge and threatened to kill herself after hearing she was about to lose her...
Nigel Farage has warned that Greece is on the verge of revolution, amid fears Athens will default on its debts. Speaking in his characteristically ...
At some point, the blame and part of the responsibility for what happens within their own country has to fall on the Greek public. Ninjas did not destroy the Attikon. Ninjas did not set fire to nearly 50 buildings around Athens. Ninjas were not the ones asking for money so as not to burn down the Asty cinema house, just a short walk away from the Attikon. These were citizens of Greece. Whether provoked, coerced, brainwashed or otherwise, these were citizens of Greece.
Though Valentine's Day is swiftly approaching, London Dungeon's new attraction may put you off the idea of kissing for a while. For only 50p Pretty Po...
Clean up crews have begun clearing the rubble from Athens' streets in the wake of last night's violent riots, as the EU welcomed a Greek parliament vo...
Protesters have surrounded the Greek parliament in Athens, as MPs prepare to vote in favour of austerity measures designed to avoid a sovereign defaul...
Eurozone crisis live: Clashes as Greeks protest over bailout deal...
