Greece

Greece

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  Greece faces slow, jobless recovery next year

  Greece's deep, six-year recession is likely to end in 2014, but growth will be weak and unemployment will remain above 20 percent for another three ... 

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  Top officials call to overhaul euro institutions

  Engineering a financial bailout for Cyprus in March was such a chaotic process that top European officials say it is time to rethink how the region ... 

• Greek strikes halt air travel

  Flights in Greece were halted for four hours Thursday as the country's two largest labor unions staged work stoppages to protest austerity measures ... 

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  Eurozone's struggling economies mired in recession

  The eurozone is stuck in recession — its longest since the euro was founded in 1999. The latest figures from the European Union's statistics office ... 

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  Russian boy stabbed while on vacation in Crete

  A 12-year-old Russian boy was stabbed nearly two dozen times while on vacation on the island of Crete, allegedly by a Dutchman working as an ... 

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  Fitch upgrades Greece's credit rating

  Debt-hobbled Greece got a new morale boost Tuesday, with Fitch ratings agency upgrading its sovereign credit grade, a day after the country's European ... 

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  Poll shows favorable views of EU in sharp decline

  Positive views of the European Union by its citizens are near all-time lows. And no EU country is plunging faster into the abyss of gloom than France. 

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  Euro ministers urge troubled Slovenia to act

  European finance ministers on Monday urged Slovenia to move swiftly in addressing the problems in its banking sector and get its public finances under ... 

• Greece uses emergency power on striking teachers

  The Greek government said Monday it will use emergency powers to prevent protesting teachers from disrupting university entrance exams this month. 

• Cyprus keeps limits on money flows

  Cyprus will keep limits on money transfers and withdrawals until it is more confident that its ailing banks will not face a run, the central bank's ... 

• Greece: Economic recovery in sight

  Greece's recession-wracked economy should start recovering next year and its sky-high unemployment rate should edge lower from the end of 2014, the ... 

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  Jewish group warns of neo-Nazi parties in Europe

  The World Jewish Congress said Tuesday it is greatly concerned about the emergence of what it called neo-Nazi parties in Europe, singling out Greece's ... 

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  Greek lawmaker accused of trying to punch mayor

  A lawmaker from Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party allegedly tried to punch the mayor of Athens on Thursday, swinging at him but reportedly ... 

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  Around the world, angry workers unite on May Day

  Workers around the world united in anger during May Day rallies Wednesday — from fury in Europe over austerity measures that have cut wages, reduced ... 

• May Day strike disrupts transport in Greece

  Ferry and train services in Greece have ground to a halt as unions hold a strike for May Day. And hundreds of people are gathering for planned rallies ... 

• 2 dead, 8 missing after freighter sinks off Greece

  A cargo ship sank off southern Greece within minutes of colliding with another freighter in fair weather Monday, leaving two Syrian seamen dead and ... 

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  Greek bill opens way for civil service layoffs

  Greece's Parliament approved an emergency bill Sunday to pave the way for thousands of public sector layoffs and free up 8.8 billion euros ($11. 

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  Economic crisis sets back peace in divided Cyprus

  When the barriers carving Cyprus in half were finally breached 10 years ago this week, Turkish Cypriot Fethi Akinci forged what some might consider ... 

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  UN: Crisis in Greece weakening human rights action

  Greece is falling behind on its human rights obligations, a senior U.N. investigator warned Friday, and he strongly criticized the "excessively rigid" ... 

• Official: Greeks pull nudes from Qatar art exhibit

  Greece has pulled two ancient statues of nude males from an Olympic exhibition in Doha after Qatari authorities insisted on veiling them. A Culture ... 

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  Minaret of famed mosque in Syria destroyed

  The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo's old quarter collapsed Wednesday as rebels and ... 

• NGOs: Violent racist attacks increase in Greece

  The number of racially motivated attacks increased in Greece last year, as did the severity of the violence involved, human rights groups said ... 

• Greek finance minister rejects tax relief call

  Greece's Finance Minister has rejected a called from the government's Socialist coalition partners to add tax relief measures to a new austerity bill ... 

• EU probes planned merger of Greek airlines

  The European Commission has opened an in-depth antitrust investigation of the proposed takeover of Greece's Olympic Air by its domestic rival Aegean ... 

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  European austerity yields meager results in 2012

  The austerity pain pursued by a number of European countries led to very little gain in 2012. Figures Monday from Eurostat, the European Union's ...