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| 2013 Apr. 30 |
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Greeks stage 24-hour anti-austerity general strike A general strike against tough austerity measures has begun in Greece, with the country's trade unions calling for 'mass mobilisation' of protesters
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| 2013 Apr. 28 |
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Parliament approves 15,000 civil service job cuts The Greek parliament has passed a bill which will see 15,000 state employees lose their jobs by the end of next year
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| 2013 Apr.18 |
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Greece farm shooting: 30 injured About 30 migrant workers have been injured in a shooting on a strawberry farm in Greece after requesting salaries that had not been paid
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| 2013 Mar.17 |
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Greek player banned for Nazi salute AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis, 20, has been banned for life from playing for the national team after making a Nazi salute
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| 2013 Mar.13 |
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Lifesaving drugs run short in Greece Thousands of Greeks trapped in a vicious circle involving a cash-strapped government unable to pay its bills
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| 2013 Feb.22 |
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Athens is hit by torrential rainfall Several hours of heavy rain and a thunderstorm have flooded roads and homes, caused traffic jams and disrupted the train and tram network
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| 2013 Jan.17 |
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Ex-Greek minister faces tax probe Greek MPS have voted to launch a criminal investigation into ex-Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou
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| 2013 Jan.11 |
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Greek MPs approve fresh tax rises The parliament has approved a series of unpopular tax rises aimed at boosting revenue in line with Athens' commitments to international creditors
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| 2012 Dec.28 |
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Greek party expels ex-minister The socialist party has expelled George Papaconstantinou, after he deleted the relatives from a list of Greeks who held Swiss bank accounts
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| 2012 Dec.19 |
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Greece 'migrant neglect shameful' Greece faces a 'humanitarian crisis' over its mistreatment of asylum-seekers and migrants, according to a report by Amnesty International
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| 2012 Nov.11 |
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Greece MPs approve new austerity budget Greek lawmakers have approved a 2013 budget involving fresh spending cuts, despite mass public street protests
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| 2012 Nov.6 |
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Greek strike shuts down country ahead of vote Unions have called for a 48-hour general strike beginning ahead of an anticipated vote by the Greek government on yet another round of austerity
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| 2012 Nov.5 |
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Greece braces for 48-hour strike Greece is braced for a 48-hour general strike across public and private sectors in protest at a proposed new wave of spending cuts
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| 2012 Nov.1 |
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Greek bank list editor on trial Journalist Costas Vaxevanis has gone on trial in Athens for breach of privacy after publishing the names of 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts
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| 2012 Oct.18 |
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Thousands rally, standstill by anti-austerity strike Tens of thousands of people rallied across Greece, as a general strike essentially shut down much of the country's transportation network
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| 2012 Sep.26 |
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Athens clashes as Greek police fire tear gas Police have fired tear gas to disperse anarchists throwing petrol bombs near Athens' parliament on a day-long strike against austerity measures
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| 2012 Sep.25 |
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Greece braced for general strike Trade unions in Greece have called the first general strike since the conservative-led coalition government came to power in June
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| 2012 Aug.22 |
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Greece stalls on making tough cuts Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, is preparing for the first of a series of meetings in which he will ask the country's lenders for more time
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| 2012 Aug.21 |
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Greece 'needs more time' for cuts Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has called for more time to implement tough spending cuts and reforms, ahead of crucial talks on its EU/IMF bailout
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| 2012 Jun.18 |
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Greeks in race to form coalition The leader of the party that narrowly won Greece's election has begun urgent talks to form a coalition, saying he wants to forge a 'national consensus
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| 2012 Jun.17 |
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Greek pro-bailout poll win hailed 
The narrow election victory of Greece's New Democracy party has been welcomed by world leaders, who urged Athens to form a cabinet quickly
| With 99.9% of ballots counted, interior ministry results put New Democracy on 29.7% of the vote (129 seats), Syriza on 26.9% (71) and the socialist Pasok on 12.3% (33)
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| 2012 Jun.16 |
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Polls open in crucial Greece election Greeks head to the polls in an election that could determine the debt-stricken country's future in the eurozone and significantly impact the global econom
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| 2012 May.27 |
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Lagarde tax jibe angers Greeks Political parties in Greece have criticised IMF head Christine Lagarde for suggesting that Greeks were avoiding paying taxes
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| 2012 May.23 |
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Europe 'wants Greece in the eurozone' EU leaders want Greece to remain in the eurozone but to 'respect its commitments', European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has said
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| 2012 May.16 |
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Greek leftist attacks EU 'poker' Alexis Tsipras has accused the EU and Chancellor Merkel of 'playing poker with European people's lives' by insisting on austerity measures
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| 2012 May.15 |
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Greece to hold new elections after stalemate Greece will hold new elections in response to a political stalemate that left the debt-racked country unable to form a government
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| 2012 May.13 |
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Greek far left rejects more talks The leader of far-left party Syriza will not attend coalition talks on Monday, reports say, plunging Greece into further political disarray
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| 2012 May.12 |
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Key talks loom for Greek parties President Karolos Papoulias is due to meet the heads of Greece's three main parties in a final attempt to form a coalition and avoid fresh elections
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Greece faces final coalition push President Karolos Papoulias is preparing to hold talks with party leaders in an attempt to create an emergency government
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| 2012 May.9 |
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Greek far-left ends coalition bid Greece's far-left leader abandons efforts to form a government based on rejecting the EU bailout deal, after talks with mainstream parties fail
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| 2012 May.8 |
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Greek leftist leader lays out radical agenda Alexis Tsipras hopes to pursue if he becomes prime minister, including the cancellation of severe budget-cutting measures
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Main parties 'suffer big losses' at polls Exit polls in the Greek parliamentary election suggest the two main parties have suffered big losses
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| 2012 Apr.4 |
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Greek clashes over man's suicide Protesters have clashed with riot police in the Greek capital, Athens, hours after a pensioner shot himself dead outside parliament
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| 2012 Mar.8 |
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Greece confirms debt deal success The Greek government has indicated that it has secured sufficient backing for a debt swap deal that will enable it to avoid defaulting on its debts
| 85.8% of bondholders subject to Greek law agreed the deal
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| 2012 Mar.7 |
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Greece debt swap deadline looms A leading European Union official has urged private holders of Greek bonds to sign up to a vital debt swap deal ahead of a deadline later on Thursday
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| 2012 Feb.21 |
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Greece gears up for tough reforms The cabinet is to meet for talks on launching the painful reform process stipulated by creditors in return for a massive bailout and debt write-down
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| 2012 Feb.20 |
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Fresh bailout for Greece 'agreed' Eurozone finance ministers have reached agreement on a vital second bailout for Greece, officials involved in the negotiations say
| The deal, which came after more than 13 hours of talks, will provide Athens with loans worth more than 130bn euros
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| 2012 Feb.12 |
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Amid clashes Parliament approves austerity | Lawmakers voted to approve another round of austerity measures, sought in return for a new eurozone bailout of the debt-stricken country | |
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| 2012 Feb.11 |
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Greek PM gives final euro warning Lucas Papademos has warned the nation of a collapse in living standards if MPs fail to pass an unpopular austerity bill demanded in return for a bailout
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| 2012 Feb.9 |
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Eurozone ministers set new conditions The chairman of a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers says fresh conditions will be attached to a 130bn euro bailout for Greece
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Greece leaders agree bailout cuts Greek politicians have reached a deal on austerity measures needed for a new 130bn euro bailout, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos says
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| 2011 Nov.11 |
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Greece swears in unity coalition Greece's new coalition cabinet and Prime Minister Lucas Papademos have been formally sworn in, after a week of political turmoil
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| 2011 Nov.10 |
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Papademos named as new prime minister Lucas Papademos, a former banker and European Central Bank vice president, has been named interim prime minister of Greece
| Papademos was one of several leaders meeting with President Papoulias with the goal of forming a new national unity government
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| 2011 Nov.8 |
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Greek coalition 'to be announced' The make-up of Greece's interim government will be announced later on Wednesday, a government official said
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| 2011 Nov.6 |
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Greeks agree coalition government Greek leaders at crisis talks have agreed to form a new national unity government. Prime Minister George Papandreou will step aside
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Papandreou-Samaras talks George Papandreou is expected to resign after the makeup of the nation's new coalition government is decided
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| 2011 Nov.4 |
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Greece's PM wins confidence vote Greece's PM George Papandreou has won a crucial confidence vote after promising to hold power-sharing talks
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PM faces knife-edge confidence vote George Papandreou is set to face a crucial no-confidence vote, with the outcome on a knife-edge
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| 2011 Nov.3 |
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Greek PM faces new call to resign Greece's centre-right opposition has demanded George Papandreou resign, throwing into disarray plans for a unity government
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Greek PM backs off plans for referendum George Papandreou said that a controversial proposal to hold a referendum on an international bailout for his country would not be necessary
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Calls for Greek leader to resign PM George Papandreou is facing calls from senior members of his own party to resign, amid uncertainty about a eurozone bailout deal
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Greek leader calls emergency meeting Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is due to meet the president of the country after an emergency meeting of the Cabinet
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| 2011 Nov.2 |
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Bailout loan withheld from Greece The next 8bn euros of rescue loans will be withheld from Greece until after its referendum on the eurozone rescue plan, European leaders say
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Pressure on Greece ahead of G20 The Greek prime minister faces rising international pressure as crisis talks begin on the eve of the G20 summit
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| 2011 Nov.1 |
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Greek cabinet endorses referendum Greece's cabinet has given unanimous backing to a controversial plan by PM Papandreou to hold a referendum on a EU debt rescue package
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Greek vote casts shadow on debt deal European stock markets dropped dramatically Tuesday and the leaders of France and Germany scheduled an emergency conversation
| Markets dive on Greek referendum
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| 2011 Oct.31 |
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Greece to hold bailout referendum Papandreou: Greece will hold a referendum on a new European Union aid package intended to resolve the country's debt crisis
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| 2011 Oct.20 |
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Rioters have fought other protesters Rioters have fought other protesters in Athens where thousands of people are rallying outside parliament to condemn a new round of cuts
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| 2011 Oct.19 |
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Greece MPs back austerity plans The Greek parliament has given initial approval to new austerity measures, as clashes broke out between protesters and police in Athens
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Greek clashes amid general strike Greek riot police have fired tear gas and fought running battles with protesters, amid a 48-hour general strike that has paralysed the country
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| 2011 Oct.18 |
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Mass strike to close down Greece Workers begin a general 48-hour strike that could ground flights, halt most public services and shut offices and shops
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| 2011 Oct.4 |
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Greece hit by new general strike A 24-hour general strike is underway in Greece against the nation's austerity measures, affecting schools, transport and hospitals
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| 2011 Oct.2 |
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Greece to miss targets on deficit Greece has said its budget deficit will be cut in 2011 and 2012 but will still miss targets set by the EU and IMF
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| 2011 Sep.29 |
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Greek PM holds new bailout talks George Papandreou is to hold further talks with European leaders as negotiations continue in Athens on a new instalment of bailout loans
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| 2011 Sep.14 |
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Eurozone leaders reassure Greece The leaders of Greece, France and Germany have said that Greece is an 'integral' part of the eurozone
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| 2011 Jul.21 |
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Eurozone agrees new Greek bailout Leaders of the Eurozone countries have agreed a new bailout package for Greece worth 109bn euros ($155bn)
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| 2011 Jun.30 |
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MPs pass second austerity vote Greece's parliament has passed a second vote on its austerity program, which was needed to secure the country further financial support
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| 2011 Jun.29 |
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Parliament's vote in favour of austerity The European Union has welcomed the Greek parliament's vote in favour of a severe austerity package that has sparked strikes and protests
| MPs approved the unpopular package of spending cuts and tax hikes by 155 votes to 138. The measures are needed to win the latest tranche of a 110bn-euro (£98bn) loan
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| 2011 Jun.28 |
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Greek protests turn ugly as strike begins Riot police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators, as thousands rallied to protest proposed austerity measures
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| 2011 Jun.27 |
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Greek unions stage general strike Trade unions have begun a 48-hour general strike, hours after PM George Papandreou urged parliament to back an austerity package
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| 2011 Jun.21 |
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Greek PM survives confidence vote The government has won a critical vote of confidence in parliament as it struggles to win support for extra austerity measures
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| 2011 Jun.19 |
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European ministers: Greece to get loans Applauding budget-cutting measures by Greece, the finance ministers announced that Athens is on track to receive fresh loans in mid-July
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| 2011 Jun.15 |
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Greek PM to form new government George Papandreou is to form a new government as he tries to win support for austerity measures demanded by the EU and IMF
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| 2010 Nov.3 |
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Greece suspends shipments after blasts A series of parcel bombs targeting embassies in Greece and officials across Europe 'are not related to international terrorism', government says
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| 2010 Nov.2 |
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Parcel bomb sent to Angela Merkel Greece has suspended international air mail for 48 hours after several parcel bombs were sent on Tuesday, including one to German Chancellor
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| 2010 Jun.24 |
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Deadly blast at Greece ministry A bomb blast at the offices of Greece's public order ministry in Athens has killed one person, a senior ministerial aide who opened a parcel
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| 2010 May.17 |
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EU to give Greece first tranche of loan Greece is due to receive the first tranche of a 110bn-euro loan to help it overcome its debt crisis
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| 2010 May.6 |
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Greece approves austerity plan Violence broke out briefly between police and demonstrators, hours after lawmakers approved an unpopular package of budget-cutting measures
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| 2010 May.5 |
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Three dead as Greek strike grows violent Police sirens and tear gas filled the streets around parliament building after protests against government. 3 people dying in a fire inside a bank
| President warns the country is 'on the brink of the abyss'
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| 2010 May.4 |
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Tansport halts as strike extends Trains, planes and ferries are at a standstill, as a general strike has been called across Greeece as protests against spending cuts and tax rises continue
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Greeks protest austerity measures An estimated 2,000 protesters representing teachers from the public sector marched past the finance ministry and parliament
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| 2010 May.2 |
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Bailout worth $146 billion Greece has accepted an international aid package worth 110 billion euros over 3 years. The deal includes a budget deficit cut its to 3% of GDP
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| 2010 May.1 |
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Greek leaders meet to discuss bail-out The government is due to meet shortly to discuss the terms of a deal with the European Union and IMF to rescue the nation's embattled economy
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| 2010 Apr.27 |
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Greek bonds rated 'junk' by S& P's Global stock markets tumbled after Greece's debt was downgraded by rating agency Standard & Poor's over concerns that the country may default
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| 2010 Apr.24 |
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IMF chief tries to ease Greece fears Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF's managing directo, says the Greek people should not fear the IMF
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| 2010 Apr.11 |
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Greece is offered 30bn euros loan Leaders of the 16 eurozone nations have agreed to fund up emergency loans for debt-hit Greece, if the country wants the cash
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| 2010 Mar.15 |
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EU ministers agree Greek plan After a meeting in Brussels, Europe's finance ministers have agreed how to help Greece in its battle to control its finances
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| 2010 Mar.3 |
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Greece backs new round of tax rises The government has approved a new package of tax increases and spending cuts to save 4.8bn euros and ease its budget crisis
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| 2010 Mar.2 |
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Budget crisis is like wartime situation - PM Prime Minister George Papandreou has likened the country's budget crisis to a 'wartime situation' and said Greece was at risk of bankruptcy
| The government has approved a package of tax increases and spending cuts to save 4.8bn euros and ease its budget crisis, including rises in sales taxes, a cut in holiday bonuses paid to civil servants, and a pensions freeze.
The EU had called for austerity measures
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| 2010 Feb.23 |
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Greece steeled for 24-hour strike As many as two million people are to hold a 24-hour strike against the imposition of austerity measures
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| 2010 Feb.10 |
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PM vows to slash huge government deficit Workers protest against austerity measures imposed by a government trying to dig its way out of a financial crisis that threatens to engulf Europe
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| 2009 Oct.4 |
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Socialist Papandreou declared winner The opposition party defeated the incumbent center-right government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis
| George Papandreou promised to chart a new course for an economic comeback
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| 2009 Aug.24 |
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Firefighters get brief respite Gentler winds gave firefighters some room to breathe, but the respite was only temporary
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| 2009 Aug.23 |
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Fire threat empties Athens suburb 
Map of Agios Stefanos Greece Residents of an entire Agios Stefanos have been ordered from their homes as out-of-control wildfires blaze around the Greek capital
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| 2008 Dec.10 |
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Strike adds to unrest Hundreds of people have marched through Athens to protest at the government's economic policies; police dealt with low-level violence
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| 2008 Dec.9 |
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Protests as Athens funeral held Clashes broke out in the capital as the funeral was held of a 15-year-old whose fatal shooting by police sparked days of rioting across the country
| Protesters confronted police outside the parliament. Hundreds of buildings have been torched and dozens of people injured in four days of rioting
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| 2008 Dec.8 |
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Greek cities hit by fresh rioting Clashes have broken out between police and protesters across Greece for a third day. Hundreds of students battled police in Thessaloniki
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| 2008 Dec.6 |
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Police shooting sparks riot Riots have broken out in several cities after police shot dead a teenager in Athens. Youths threw petrol bombs, burned cars
| The riots started, when 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Epaminondas Korkoneas, a special guard of the police, following an altercation between police and a group of youths in the Exarcheia district of Athens. Demonstrations and rioting later spread to several other cities, including Thessaloniki
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| 2008 Jul.25 |
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Fire causes mass evacuations from resorts Police evacuated more than 2,000 European vacationers from a strip of holiday resorts as fierce forest fires swept through the island
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| 2008 Mar.30 |
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Greece hands China Olympic torch The torch has been handed over to Chinese officials at a ceremony in Athens, amid scuffles between police and pro-Tibet demonstrators
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| 2008 Mar.24 |
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Protest as Olympic torch is lit A protester managed to breach the tight security during the torch lighting ceremony. He unfurled a banner, but was apprehended
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| 2007 Sep.16 |
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PM claims election victory The conservative prime minister won re-election with a diminished majority in parliament after a financial scandal and devastating forest fires
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| 2007 Aug.27 |
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Greece may label fires acts of terrorism A top prosecutor ordered an investigation into whether arson attacks in Greek forests could be considered terrorism
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| 2007 Aug.26 |
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Fires inch closer to Olympic cradle The wildfires that have scorched southern Greece, reached the ancient city of Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic games,
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| 2007 Aug.25 |
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63 died from forest fires Map of Peloponnese Greece The emergency workers continue to find the bodies of people burned to death by forest fires that are raging in the south of the country
| Karamanlis: Fires may have been deliberately set ahead of national elections. The newspapers are calling the southern Peloponnese region a 'crematorium'. The worst fires are concentrated along an 50 mile stretch on the west coast of the Peloponnese
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| 2007 Aug.24 |
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Fires kill 27 in southern Greece At least 15 people have been killed on the deadliest day of wildfires this year. At least 9 people have burned to death in their cars
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| 2007 May.23 |
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Inzaghi brace wins cup for Milan AC Milan beat Liverpool 2-1 with 2 goals from Inzaghi to win the European Cup for the 7th time and avenge their defeat in the final 2 years ago
| Liverpool pulled a goal back in the 89th minute through a Kuyt header but could not repeat their famous Istanbul fight back
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| 2007 Apr.5 |
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1,200 rescued from cruise ship A ship carrying 1,200 passengers and a crew of 400 was being evacuated off the island of Santorini after issuing a distress signal
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| 2006 May.23 |
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Greek, Turkish fighter jets crash The pilot of a Turkish fighter jet was rescued, after colliding with a Greek F-16 following a mock dogfight
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| 2006 Feb.11 |
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Deadly bird flu spreads in Europe The deadly H5N1 strain that has killed at least 88 people around the world has been detected in Italy and Greece
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| 2005 Aug.14 |
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Cypriot jet crashes; 121 dead Air traffic controllers lost contact while Boeing 737 was approaching Athens
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| 2004 Dec.15 |
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Bus Hijack Siege Ends, Gunmen Surrender All 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered
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| 2004 Aug.29 |
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Olympics: Games Close Greece staged an exuberant closing ceremony to bring the curtain down on the Athens Games
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| 2004 Aug.13 |
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Glittering opening for Olympics The Games returned to their birthplace after 108 years with a glittering ceremony that featured more than 4,000 performers
| The ceremony set to put to memory construction delays and doping scandals. President Stephanopoulos opened the Games. 75,000 spectators inside the Olympic Stadium were joined by an estimated global TV audience of 4 billion. 10,500 athletes were competing under 202 flags
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| 2004 Jul.5 |
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Greece win Euro 2004 over Portugal A 57th minute goal from Angelos Charisteas gave Greece a 1-0 victory in one of the biggest upsets in international football
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| 2004 May.4 |
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Bombs hit Athens police station 3 bombs have exploded outside a heavily-guarded police station, in a series of timed blasts
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| 2004 Mar.7 |
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Conservatives sweep to power Conservatives try to reclaim power after 10 years and turn around the preparations for the Olympics
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| 2003 Dec.16 |
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N17 leader, hitman jailed for life The head of the radical November 17 organisation has been jailed for life, as has the group's main hitman
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| 2003 Jun.22 |
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Greece seizes explosives ship Special forces boarded a ship loaded with 680 tonnes of explosives as it sailed through Greek territorial waters
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| 2003 Apr.16 |
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Violence erupts near EU summit Demonstrations against the war in Iraq clashed with police, torched banks and smashed shopfronts
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