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Russia

What will Greek PM walk away with after Kremlin meeting?

The Greek Prime Minister has insisted he has not asked Moscow for any money

Germany

Germany dismisses Greece's demand for billions in war reparations

Bavaria's state finance minister has called Greece's World War Two reparation claims "inappropriate" and "not very clever"

Russia

Tsipras meets Putin in bid to strengthen Greek-Russian ties

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to discuss how they can cooperate to help the struggling Greek economy

Greece

Russian gas discounts and loans reportedly on the table for Greece

Media reports in Russia say the government is ready to offer financial help to the Greek prime minister when he visits Moscow this week. Alexis

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Greece

Greece's claim for war reparations from Germany explained

Greece

Greece promises to "meet all obligations" during IMF talks

Greece will make good with its creditors and implement much needed reforms. That was the promise from the country’s Finance Minister Yanis

European Union

Europe Weekly: Greece debt showdown far from settled

This week on Europe Weekly, we discuss the continuing showdown between Greece and its creditors as the government pledges to crackdown further on

Culture news

Ancient Greek statues still excite in new British Museum show

The British Museum in London has a new exhibition examining Ancient Greece’s preoccupation with the body beautiful, and the influence sculptures have

Greece

Heated exchanges in Athens as Greek PM vows not to capitulate over bail-out extension plans

The Greek parliament has been the scene of heated exchanges over the country’s financial crisis. Euronews’s reporter Akis Tatsis described a bad

Sport

Three Greek international football players slightly hurt in Hungary taxi crash

Greece

Greece commemorates National Day

Thousands of Greeks braved rainy weather to line the streets of Athens for National Day commemorations. March 25 marks the start of Greece’s 1821

Cinema

Thessaloniki celebrates documentary film

The art of documentary film making, in all its forms, has been celebrated in Thessaloniki, in Greece. The 17th edition of the festival focused on

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Kissing couples promote Greek-German reconciliation

Greece

Austerity and reparations: Merkel and Tsipras agree to disagree

Tensions between Athens and Berlin may be high, but Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel put on a united front

Economy

A different vision, but the same goal: Merkel and Tsipras agree to cooperate

Greece and Germany agree on the need for Athens to make major structural reforms as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras makes his first official visit to Berlin .

Economy

Greece and Germany 'kiss and make up'

A group of some 250 couples have told Greece and Germany to kiss and make up. Lovers from the two countries carried out an intimate protest in the

Germany

Raised tensions ahead of Tsipras' visit to Berlin

Alexis Tsipras heads to Berlin, but his first official visit to the capital comes amid growing tensions between Greece and Germany.

Germany

Merkel, Nazis and the occupation of Greece: Der Spiegel sets Europe talking

How does Europe view Germany? Weekly magazine Der Spiegel delves into the Nazi occupation of Greece in its controversial response.

Greece

Greece: Golden Dawn leader put under house arrest pending trial

The leader of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party has been released from prison and placed under house arrest, after an 18-month limit on his

World

Cash-strapped Greece struggles to meet education challenge

How is education in Greece surviving the country’s tough austerity measures? What are the new government’s plans? And how can Greece tackle the issue