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Socialist party predicted to return to office and there are hopes for better relations with Turkey and Cyprus. The general election in Greece on Sunday (4 October) offers...

Staff tribunal embarrassment has had a huge impact! Earlier this year, the European Commission fell foul of the EU's staff tribunal, which ruled invalid decisions made in...

Forest fires near Athens are early test of EU's new fire-fighting capability. The EU's two fire-fighting planes yesterday flew to Greece to help put out fires that have...

The European Commission responds to a European Voice article on staffing at its representation in Athens. Your article on the judgment of the European Union Civil Service...

Athens posting ruled invalid after complaints and senior Commission officials accused of cronyism. The European Union's staff tribunal has ruled invalid the European...

It is unclear whether EU-affiliated research institute was the target. Greek police today safely detonated a bomb placed near an EU-affiliated agency in Athens, but...

The land of gods has become one of the most polluted places on earth. The wealthier we get, the filthier. Every year we each of us throw away 3.5 tonnes of rubbish. Then...

It was vintage Demetris Christofias, that as Cyprus's newly elected president, he would ask Mehmet Ali Talat, the leader of the island's Turkish community, to conduct their...

The stereotypical Russian diplomat is an older fellow with a brooding mind and a booming voice which he often uses to say “nyet”, and is perhaps not the most socially...

"Both sides need to step back from the brink before this becomes a crisis that neither can control." Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European external relations commissioner, as...

As the train pulls into Syntagma station in central Athens it is not difficult to conceive that the city has one of the cleanest and most efficient metro systems on the...

The recent European Wind Energy Conference in Athens celebrated the familiar environmental panacea of clean, sustainable energy. The wind lobby's infectious enthusiasm has...

JOSƒ Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, publishes a first-person account of his travels in Southern Africa as a prelude to his participation in this...

Greece is to escape suspension of its structural fund payments after striking a deal with Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for regional policy. The European Commission will...

Greece is confident that it can stave off the European Commission's threat of suspended regional aid, sources say. Athens will respond to the Commission by Monday's deadline...

Greece's deficit is set to top 6% of gross domestic product (GDP) when Athens releases its new figures at the end of the month, European Voice has learrned. On Wednesday (9...

Thank you to the taxpayers of the European Union for their generous transfer of €600 million per month of EU funds during the past few years:

AS GREEKS get ready to stage the Olympic Games, their country has placed six anti-aircraft Patriot missile ranges in a military airport near Athens. The weapons,...

STAVROS Dimas cried when he recently decided to take up the post of European commissioner.. The 63-year-old was reduced to tears, not at the prospect of swapping his beach...

EUROPOL has been asked to carry out an analysis of the threat which terrorists pose to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The request – made to the Union's police agency by...