Macedonia, Greece News

A easy way of collecting money and creating jobs Yesterday's paper stated that "Sources told Kathimerini that only 1 percent of the 8.6 billion euros has in fact been collected, meaning that less than 100 million euros has entered public coffers." This is truly unbelievable! There's something that is not only bewildering but also puzzling in Greece ... (more)

Parliament backed drastic cuts in wages, pensions and jobs on Sunday as the price of a 130-billion-euro bailout by the European Union and International Monetary Fund, as running battles between police and rioters in central Athens outside parliament drove home a sense of deepening crisis.

Ktimatologio SA, the company in charge of drawing up GreeceA's long-delayed land register, said on Monday that it will be posting details on its website of properties registered with the company in nine areas of northeastern Attica.

As Greece prepares to accept new austerity measures, questions have arisen about the ECB's methods.

Of all the Jewish communities destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, the Greek city of Thessaloniki may have suffered the greatest losses.

Firefighters were dousing smoldering buildings and cleanup crews were sweeping rubble on Monday morning following a night of rioting in central Athens after Greek lawmakers approved tough new austerity measures demanded by foreign creditors to prevent default.

Macedonia's PM Nikola Gruevski and ministers of health and education - Nikola Todorov and Pance Kralev - put into service on Sunday two new laboratories at the Institute of Occupational Health in Skopje.The goal of the labs is to improve conditions for toxicological and... Macedonia's PM Nikola Gruevski and ministers of health and education - ... (more)

One of the region's Euro MPs has revealed how he feared he was going to die when the plane he was on was forced to make an emergency landing in Macedonia.

The Greek parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country.

Flames spread around Athens as demonstrators protested a vote in parliament on an austerity measures, which have been ordered upon the country in exchange for 130 billion from the International Monetary Fund and other European countries.

Historic cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens Sunday as black-masked protesters fought Greek police outside parliament, while inside lawmakers looked set to defy the rage by endorsing a new EU/ State television reported violence spread to the islands of Corfu and Crete, the northern city of Thessaloniki and towns in ... (more)

Protesters clash with riot police in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Sunday. Police used tear gas on petrol bomb-throwing protesters outside parliament in Athens where lawmakers were debating a new austerity plan aimed at staving off bankruptcy.

A five-year-old girl has been found alive in the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed at least nine people, including her parents, in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo.

Greek unions launched a two-day general strike on February 10 against new extreme austerity measures the "troika" of the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Union is seeking to impose on the southern European nation.

ATHENS: Thousands of protestors massed in Greece under heavy police watch Saturday after the government approved unpopular austerity cuts to get vital rescue funds and avoid the "chaos" of a default.

Pedestrians pass next to a beggar in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, on Thursday, Feb.

DNEVNIK The daily looks at the recent relations between United Kingdom and Macedonia.

Seventeen Bulgarian regions remain under code orange over extremely low temperatures, the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has announced.

Pedestrians pass next to a beggar in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, on Thursday, Feb.

GV Author Filip Stojanovski posts pictures of Skopje's snowy and icy streets and reports on his blog: "[] the pavements and the side streets in the municipality of Centar remain icy.