Greece’s banks will reopen on Monday, three weeks after they were closed amid the country’s debt crisis. But maximum withdrawals of just 60 euros a day look set to remain. News of […]

The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, was bitch slapping EU leaders, calling Hungarian PM ‘dictator’ in front of the press at the EU-Eastern Partnership summit in Latvia. [via Kim Jong]

Record breaking numbers of migrants are arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos, overwhelming local authorities, local police say. Anna Holligan meets some Danish tourists who have been giving food to a […]

The Greek town of Sidirokastro and the Bulgarian town of Petritsh are hardly 40 kilometers apart. For the Greeks, what used to be the “poor neighbor” in the North has now become […]

French express varying opinions on Greece’s predicament, with many sympathetic. Some blame large international banks. A global crowd-funding campaign has been started to pay Greece’s outstanding debt, if only symbolically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bakzGAOLZoQ

Yanis Varoufakis is gone, leaving tense relations with creditors and closed banks behind him. His successor as Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos now faces the unenviable task of selling his country’s ‘no’ […]

More than 200,000 Greeks have already fled the country since the crisis began – many of them young people. But a crisis for some is an opportunity for others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLwxcNpt4nY

Euclid Tsakalotos has been sworn in as Greece’s new finance minister after Yanis Varoufakis resigned. Analysts say the 55-year-old, who speaks Greek with a British accent, offers a completely different style to […]