officials of Greece

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — UEFA has welcomed a Greek court decision to convict 58 club officials, managers, and others for up to 10 years in prison for a match-fixing scandal in 2011. The officials were convicted on a variety of charges — among them bribery, illegal gambling, and money laundering — and ...

Millions of ethnic Greeks call themselves Macedonians and getting the republic to qualify its name has become a major cause of Greek nationalism. For its part, within the Republic of Macedonia, anti-Greek nationalism is being inflamed as well. It sounds pedantic, but the “naming dispute” between Greece ...

Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Friday that German judicial authorities have relayed evidence to their counterparts in Greece suggesting that Greek state officials received bribes from rail firm Deutsche Bahn to influence contract decisions related to construction work at the Athens ...

"That's where they were standing when I noticed them," he says of a group of Greek men who lumbered around and watched on as he worked in April 2017. Mahmoud recognised the men from the town square, and he was suspicious of their intentions. During his two years in Gortisa's fields, he had ...

Earlier Friday, the Greek army said Greek and Turkish authorities were in contact and undertaking procedures to return the soldiers to Greece. A Greek government official said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was "closely following" developments in the case and was in "constant contact" with the Greek ...

Authorities in northwestern Greece confiscated 442 kilos of cannabis that were smuggled into the country on a speedboat from neighboring Albania early Thursday morning. According to reports, the bust was made after police in the coastal town of Preveza were tipped off about an imminent arrival of drugs ...

Legal papers served over the weekend to the mayor of Corinth, ahead of the country's peak summer tourist season, accuse local authorities of doing too little to shield the region and protect thousands of businesses affected along one of Greece's busiest stretches of coastline. “It is the duty of a mayor to take ...

Greek authorities are anticipating a significant increase in applications for political asylum from Turkish nationals fleeing their homeland amid a continuing crackdown by President Recep ... According to official government figures, 1,827 Turkish citizens lodged applications for asylum in Greece last year.