Society

The City of Athens is planning to create an electronic operations center in order to monitor public property, as well as improve the municipality’s efficiency in interacting with citizens. The 6-million-euro project will be mostly funded by European structural funds...

Disciplinary councils in Greece are letting off easy doctors who have received briberies. At the same time, despite dozens of complaints about doctors who receive briberies, only 12 have been prosecuted in the last two years, according to data from...

In Holland, there are many Greeks who work for many hours as unskilled laborers in greenhouses, farms, taverns and restaurants, while they are paid below the minimum wage rate, according to Greek newspaper I Efimerida. There is a new generation of...

Angeliki is a Greek woman living in Gaza with her five children and her Palestinian husband, whom she met when he was studying in Greece. They fell in love and she moved with him in his country of origin....

The Greek government gave the green light for the opening of cremation centers, with an amendment to the Environment Ministry bill. The regulations, signed by Interior Minister Argyris Dinopoulos, Development Minister Nikos Dendias, Health Minister Makis Voridis and Environment Minister Yiannis Maniatis,...

The Greek government has decided to put a pilot program in motion which is estimated to cost 80 million euros. The aim is to provide free Internet access to more than 150,000 families. The people who will participate in this...

The mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, met with Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu. During their discussion, Boutaris mentioned that there should be an open mosque in Thessaloniki, while he also added that he intents on turning Alaca Imaret and...

According to estimates, the illegal gambling market turnover reached 5.5 to 6 billion euros in 2013, while at the same period legitimate gambling businesses showed a considerable decrease in revenues. The president of Greece’s Gaming Commission, Evgenios Giannakopoulos, who briefed the...

A 56-year-old woman died in the area of Chania, Crete, due to a power cut. She had been quadriplegic for 20 years and was living on mechanical support. According to Greek news, the woman had a live-in nurse who was taking care...

The dead body of a foreign woman was found by tourists visiting a church in Oia, in the island of Santorini, Greece. Police was immediately called to the scene and confirmed that the woman's body was decomposing. Preliminary investigation revealed personal documents and...

After extensive investigations, Ministry of Administrative Reform officials discovered that a large number of public employees were hired or promoted using forged documents. The investigation showed that hundreds, if not thousands, of public sector employees had forged their high school...

The number of public sector employees in Greece was reduced by 267,095 during the period 2009-2013. In 2009, there were 952,625 public employees but in 2013 their number fell to 675,530. According to Greek news, a percentage of them retired, but...

On Saturday July 19, residents, unionists and members of environmental organizations blocked the road to the NATO naval base in Souda Bay, Crete, protesting against the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons in the Mediterranean Sea. The blockade is expected to last...

Bathers on the beach of Nea Makri, northeastern Attica, prevented the installation of a system that enables people with disabilities to have independent access to the sea. "It bothers us," "it is useless, no one uses it," they said. The innovative and...

It is no secret that conspiracy theories and the creation of urban legends are very common for people in Greece. In fact, they have a tendency to find lies and distortions behind a lot of significant personalities and stories. A survey...