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The article reports on Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis accused by Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about settling disputes in the eastern Aegean and mentions rising tensions between Turkey and Greece.

The article offers a photo journalistic essay for events in the press during 2015, including a migrant on a shore in Greece, a child in a Ukrainian bomb shelter within the Ukraine Conflict and the airplane hitting a Taipei, Taiwan highway.

The article report on the escalating dispute between Greece and Turkey over energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean is fast becoming militarized, raising the risks of a clash among NATO allies, and foreign Minister Helko Maas of Germany, who visited Greece and Turkey this urging dialogue, warned both governments against further military escalation.

The article reports on the chaotic situation between Greece and Turkey as hordes of migrants tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos following Turkey's decision to end its asylum policy for Syrian people fleeing from the civil war.

The article examines the concerns of Slovakia on the future of the European Union (EU) amidst the migrant crisis and exit of Great Britain from EU in 2016. Topics include the impact of the crisis on other member countries, the rise of euroskepticism following the exit and the opposition of Slovakia to the aid given by EU to Greece.

The article discusses Germany's role in the European policy towards the mass immigration of refugees to the continent, including its coordinating of European immigration policy and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's perspective on mass immigration to Germany. An overview of the relationship between Germany's leadership in European immigration policy and its role in the Greek public debts crisis, is provided. INSET: Sight of a Tiny Victim Stirs the World.

The article discusses Germany's handling of Greece's bailout package and the impact of its aggressive tone on the trust of other European countries in Germany and its interest in European unity. Topics include the focus of finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble on Germany's national interest by suggesting Greece leave the eurozone, the responsibility of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to verify Greece abides by economic rules, and Germany's support of a strong central bank and economic strictures.

The article focuses on the adverse impact of Greece's debt crisis on European economy.

The article reports on the decline of priority by the European Union (EU) on Brexit, withdrawal of Great Britain from the EU, due to several challenges in the organization including the debt of Greece, challenges in democratic values in Hungary and Poland, and terrorism.

The article reports on the optimism for Greece and its European Union partners as they meet in Brussels, Belgium on June 22, 2015 for a deal that would secure further funding for Greece and a promise for more debt relief in return for changes pension and tax systems.

The article reports on the bailout package for Cyprus that was approved in March 2013 which reflected some important new markers for the future of the European Union and the countries that use the euro. It is noted that the deal contains stricter rules and validates Germany's push for a more responsible bank management. Some observers believe that Cyprus will follow Greece into a deep recession or depression.

ATHENS -- Greeks head to the polls on Sunday for the second time in two months with a pervasive sense of dread that any government that comes to power will fail to resolve the political and economic turmoil that threatens the country's future -- and the financial stability of Europe itself. If the establishment center-right party New Democracy ekes out a victory in a race that polls show as tight, Greece still faces weeks or months of negotiations with European lenders over the terms of its austerity program, which all parties agree are too onerous to enforce on its rapidly shrinking economy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, with the euro under renewed pressure from Spanish banks and the coming Greek election, said on Thursday that the answer is ''more Europe,'' with moves ''step by step'' toward a fiscal and political union of countries using the euro. But how much more Europe does Europe want? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- The leaders of the Group of 8, emphasizing growth as well as fiscal discipline at their meeting on Saturday, made a strong plea for Greece to stay in the euro zone and the European Union. And no wonder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- Greece may be scrambling for revenue, but the French treasury has just banked some 550 million euros for doing nothing -- simply letting the French franc, created in 1360, finally perish. Friday was the last day that French francs could be turned into the Bank of France, the central bank, in exchange for the common European currency, the euro, a little more than a decade after it was introduced as bills and coins. The approximately 550 million euros represents the francs still outstanding, somewhere, which are now worthless, and which will be registered as revenue for the French state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- The front-runner for the French presidency, the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, criticized European policy on Greece on Monday, saying that mandatory austerity measures were too severe and would never produce the desired results because ''everyone knows'' that ''there is no rebound in growth in Europe and in Greece.'' Mr. Hollande's remarks, one day after the Greek Parliament adopted austerity measures demanded by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, while violent protests left many buildings in Athens in flames, offered a critical assessment of European and Greek leaders' handling of the crisis. The Greek government, he said, would ''have a short life,'' while the austerity plan forced on Greece amounted to a ''purge.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- The leaders of Germany and France, meeting here on Monday, pledged not to allow Russia and China to block international action to stop the bloodshed in Syria, and promised to help the Syrian people. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France also called for Greece to come to terms quickly with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund on cuts to its budget, or face default on its debts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BERLIN -- Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France warned Greece on Monday that it needed to move forward with promised structural changes or risk losing the next installment of badly needed bailout money. The leaders of the European Union's two largest countries met in the German capital to discuss their next steps in combating the sovereign-debt crisis that has destabilized the Continent and threatened the common currency. Even as Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy promised quick action to stem the crisis, investors signaled the depth of their continuing concern over the instability that has spread from Greece to the very heart of the euro zone, by purchasing German debt at a negative interest ratefor the first time ever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CANNES, France -- Prime Minister George A. Papandreou of Greece emerged from a meeting with Europe's leaders here on Wednesday pledging to hold a referendum on a new European debt deal on Dec. 4 or 5. After the talks, held before a summit meeting of the Group of 20, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and others said that they regretted that Greece had reached this point but that it was best to clear up the uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED PARIS -- The Greek prime minister vowed Wednesday to persevere with austere cuts in the struggling country's budget, while the leaders of France and Germany promised to support Greece's continued membership in the euro zone. That was the stay-the-course upshot of a conference call Wednesday evening in Europe by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany with the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BERLIN -- The latest bailout in the Greek rescue has all the elements of what is fast becoming almost commonplace European intrigue. The French president arranges a private summit meeting with the German chancellor. Europe's top central banker resists calls to allow Greece to write off some debt, fearing it could undermine the euro. The Greeks cry out that their sovereignty is infringed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ATHENS -- They are the crown jewels of Greece's socialist state, and they are now likely to go to the highest bidder: the ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki; prime Mediterranean real estate; the national lottery; Greek Telecom; the postal bank and the national railway system. And then comes the mandated deeper round of austerity measures, which will slash the wages of police officers, firefighters and other state workers who are protesting in Athens, and raise the taxes of citizens already inflamed by a recession-plagued economy and soaring joblessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- The euro crisis hangs over the meeting of the Group of 8 industrialized countries that begins on Thursday, with Greece's renewed problems destabilizing markets, worrying Washington and influencing the debate over who should be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund. As President Obama arrived in the French seaside resort of Deauville on Thursday for what is normally more of an informal session on security issues, the continuing problems of the euro and the divisions it is causing inside Europe are threatening to harm the West's uneven recovery. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece on Saturday attacked ''rumor mongering'' and speculation after a German magazine reported that Athens was threatening to leave the euro zone in order to bargain for easier terms on its huge debt obligations. But even as Greece and the European Union denied the reports and sought to calm nervous markets, other European officials acknowledged that the country needed its loans adjusted after new figures showed a deep recession and higher-than-forecast fiscal debt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- For the third time in a year the European Union is going through the same ritual, bailing out another insolvent country. Portugal now follows Greece and Ireland to the European welfare office to ask for new loans on the condition of ever more drastic spending cuts. So far the markets have taken Europe's third successive sovereign financial crisis in stride. But many economists are a good deal more alarmed, most notably because the bailout formula European leaders keep applying to their most indebted member nations shows no signs of working. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PARIS -- Europe's consistent inability to move quickly enough to get ahead of the financial markets during the Greece crisis is shaking the euro and the foundations of the European Union itself, as critics of the euro have long predicted would happen. The question being raised with increasing urgency is whether the European Union can fashion a mechanism to speed decision-making before irreversible damage is done and the euro itself slips into history. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- Greece, effectively bankrupt and with a European gun to its head, committed itself to years of austerity on Sunday when it signed a financial bailout deal with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. But there are serious questions about whether the deep cuts in salaries and benefits the agreement calls for are politically sustainable over time, even as deflation will make it impossible for Greece to grow its way out of debt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- With new European Union leaders practically invisible and some national leaders acting largely for domestic political reasons, the burden of shaping a rapid and credible restructuring program for Greece has fallen primarily to the International Monetary Fund -- exactly where proud European Union leaders had insisted it should not be. Once again -- as during the 2008 financial crisis and the more recent halt in European air traffic due to volcanic ash -- European leaders have failed to surmount national interests and cobble together a coherent policy quickly enough to address a problem. In the process, they may have done permanent damage to the credibility of the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- With Greece facing a looming deadline to roll over $27 billion in debt, the countries of the euro zone are arguing nastily among themselves about whether and how to toss Greece to the tender mercies of the International Monetary Fund. The dispute is partly about money, but it is even more about politics and pride, and it is being conducted in the shadow of another potential crisis in Portugal, whose debt was downgraded on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PARIS -- Across Europe, from profligate Greece to newly strait-laced Ireland, countries are promising deep, painful cuts in public spending even as they face the likelihood of a new recession. To protect the value of the euro, satisfy investors and appease Europe's economic taskmaster, Germany, the region's most heavily indebted nations consider that they have no choice but to slim down. Reviving economic growth and reducing unemployment must wait until countries put their fiscal houses in better order, the thinking goes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What began with worries about the solvency of Greece in the face of high deficits, fake budget figures and low growth has quickly become the most severe test of the 16-nation euro zone in its 11-year history. Anxiety about the health of the euro, which has spread from Greece to Portugal, Spain and Italy, is not simply a crisis of debts, rating agencies and volatile markets. The issue has at its heart elements of a political crisis, because it goes to the central dilemma of the European Union: the continuing grip of individual states over economic and fiscal policy, which makes it difficult for the union as a whole to exercise the political leadership needed to deal effectively with a crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the role of the Greek government in the arrests of members of terrorist group November 17. Background on November 17; Skepticism of experts and victims' families about government claims concerning the collapse of November 17; View of experts that the investigation must continue to uncover its past links to politics; How the government of Prime Minister Costas Simitis captured November 17 members with the help of Scotland Yard; Question of whether the group has lost its ideological center.

PARIS -- Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of France, Italy and seven other European countries on Friday, a move that may have more symbolic than fundamental financial impact but served as a reminder that Europe's economic woes were far from over. Another memory jog came Friday from Greece, the original source of Europe's debt troubles. Talks hit a snag between the new Greek government and the banks and other private investors that Athens hopes will agree to take losses on their debt so that Greece can avoid a default. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]