Society

Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis was jeered by locals and patients during his visit to several hospitals in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Georgiadis was on an inspection of the hospitals' condition and discussing the health sector problems with the patients, doctors and healthcare...

It appears that the avarice in Greece has exceeded every limit as many wealthy Greeks are applying for the social dividend benefit of 500 euros. At the same time thousands of applications by impoverished people are rejected as they might...

Among the archive footage released when British Pathé put its entire back catalogue of vintage newsreels on YouTube last week was film dating back in 1944 of Greece’s liberation from Nazi occupation by British and ELAS (Greek People's Liberation Army) partisan troops. The first...

The Greek privatization fund TAIPED (Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund) is to undertake the sale of the disused Olympic facilities in Athens, construction of which cost more than 577 million euros. The total cost of the construction was based on data from Greece’s...

A recent article in German daily Der Spiegel, entitled Warum Jannis auch ohne Lohn arbeitet ('Why is Yannis working without a salary?') addresses the problem of unpaid work in Greece. The newspaper told the story of 32 year-old Yannis, who after many years of...

The European Union has launched a new fund for people in need from 2014 to 2020. The new Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) has a total budget of 3.8 billion euros and is the first European...

  In the secret alleys and bizarre areas of Athens and Piraeus, photographer Didier Ben Loulou managed to capture on camera, the energy flow within the bodies of immigrants and street people of Greece, as well zero in on the...

In a bid for citizens not to avoid tax, Greece is preparing to give away the luxury cars authorities have repossessed in the economic crisis in a prize draw, tickets for which will be ... shopping receipts. Greek newspapers have reported that...

April 21 is a day most Greeks remember with fear. It was 47 years ago, just weeks before scheduled elections, that a coup of far right-wing military officers seized power and plunged the country into seven years of dictatorial...

While much of graffiti is mindless spray-painting and egotistical self-aggrandizing tagging, some Greek street artists are using their talents to paint murals of dissent against the country's crushing economic crisis and the people they blame, usually politicians, bankers and...

Golden Dawn distributed food to needy Greeks who could prove themselves as such outside the ultra-nationalist party's Athens headquarters on Thursday morning. Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris said: "Our "terrorist organisation" is organising food distributions instead of having fun in villas." When asked about a possible...

The news that it was a 49 year-old teacher at the primary school in Kymi , Greece, who set the school on fire on April 4, has come as a shock to the local community. Reportedly, the reason was because...

On Wednesday morning, in Varvakios market, central Athens, Greece, ten unidentified women bought large quantities of meat and distributed them to their fellow citizens. It is estimated that the ten women spent almost 50,000 euros. The women arrived in Athens central...

Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Monday night announced a raft of new social measures to support homeless people, after meeting the ministers of health and labor. “We must help those most affected by the crisis, in order to give them a second chance”...

Nearly every known denomination features certain periods during which the faithful are obliged to follow certain rules, abstain from certain food, from any lusts of the flesh, and avoid temptation in general. The Greek Orthodox Church also prescribes certain fasting...