Society

More than half a million Greeks have joined the social residential electricity tariffs offered by Greece’s Public Power Corporation (DEI). According to the data provided to the Greek Parliament by Deputy Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Asimakis Papageorgiou,...

Despite two years of harsh austerity measures and rising unemployment, life expectancy in Greece hasn’t dropped and young Greeks didn’t quit school to find work, as happened in other crisis-hit countries, according to Eurostat’s quality of life indicators for 2012. Data...

A recent survey by the Society for the Study of Human Sexuality revealed six out of 10 Greeks to be using dating sites to find a partner. Nearly half (43%) of respondents said they had met someone through the internet, although the...

A recent OECD report on poverty revealed that the 17.9% of Greeks can't afford to buy food – more than in countries with lower per capita income such as Brazil and China. The OECD report, entitled "Society at a Glance...

The doctors and employees of the Greek public hospitals announced that they are going on a 48-hour strike this Wednesday and Thursday. The strike is a reaction to the demands of both troika and the Greek government. In particular,...

Hitherto, the consistency with which Greek citizens meet their tax obligations has perhaps not been noted by the rest of the planet as being among their strong suits. However, after many years, recognition of the hellenic talent for fiscal fudging is at...

The story of a 54-year-old woman, who Thursday morning attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the old fortifications in the town of Iraklion on the Greek island of Crete, has shocked the local community. The Greek woman was a...

Official data released on Thursday shows that unemployment in Greece reached 27.5 % in the fourth quarter of 2013, remaining the highest in the euro zone. Greece, with a population of about 10 million people, has 1.36 million unemployed. Since the outbreak...

Northern European pensioners are creating an entire village in Northern Greece, in which young unemployed from Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy will have the opportunity to live and work. The village is an idea of the ProWork initiative. The ProWork...

Kalarites is a village located on the Tzoumerka mountain in north-western Greece, which during the winter months seems to be forgotten by everyone. There, in the heart of the village, is a small traditional coffee shop that dates back 174 years. Its...

According to a recent survey by the associate professor at the University of Thessaly, Marie-Noel Dyken, Greece is one of the most "aged" countries in the EU. Only Italy and Germany are presenting highest rates of population aging. Dyken studying data from...

A parliamentary committee is objecting to government plans to close 21 organizations deemed no longer useful, saying it violates the Greek Constitution. The shutdowns were ordered by the country's international lenders, the Troika of the Europoean Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central...

Greek pharmacists will proceed with new strikes on  Friday, March 14 and Monday, March 17 after a  decision taken by the Panhellenic Pharmacists’ Union. Meanwhile the pharmacists union has stated that there is no conflict with the Health Minister,...

The Attorney General of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece, Efterpi Koutzamani, has sent a circular to all the Procurator Generals of the country, in which she asks them to give all the appropriate directives to the...

While praising Greece publicly for making progress on reforms, Eurozone finance chiefs privately told Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras they are disappointed at the lack of progress and pressured him to come to terms with international lenders by March 14. During...