Society

Flu cases have been rising in Greece. Numerous Greeks are displaying suspected flu-like symptoms lately and many patients are in a critical condition in the intensive care units (ICU) of hospitals. Some of them have also passed away because...

At noon on Sunday thousands of people gathered in Nikaia, Athens to support Greek farmers. They blocked the national road (PATHE) for more than two hours and joined the farmers’ demonstration. Citizens, farmers and unionists from Thessaly, Athens and Thessaloniki...

The situation on the island of Cephalonia, Greece turned dire after the second powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 hit the island last week. The continuous aftershocks rocking the island are worsening the life of the locals who cannot...

On Friday, February 7, Greek authorities discovered the bodies of four immigrants. The immigrants drowned while a coast guard vessel was towing their boat last month. The Greek divers recovered the bodies of two adults and two children from...

Vangelis Marinakis, chairman of Greece’s football champion Olympiacos, announced on Thursday, his intention to give money to the quake-struck Greek island, Cephalonia. Olympiacos will help finance the effort of the Greek state mechanism to reconstruct schools that have been...

  Greece’s Financial and Crime Unit (SDOE) had quite a big job on their hands last year. After numerous thorough controls, SDOE discovered that there are an abundance of Greek citizens from different groups that are not paying their taxes...

Another powerful aftershock rocked the island of Cephalonia in Greece last night, terrifying the thousands of residents who had to spend the night in tents, boats, buses and even cars. Lixouri looks like a bombed area with the number of...

February 4 is World Cancer Day which was founded to raise awareness of cancer, encourage its prevention and treatment, as well as to support cancer patients and their families. But when it comes to Greece, the situation is a...

The former Greek Prime Minister and PASOK’s leader, George Papandreou continues his lectures. This time, he delivered a lecture at the London School of Economics (LSE). The subject of his speech was the Present and the Future of the...

According to XanthiNews, a 12-year-old Greek Muslim girl was sent out of class by her teacher because she had not learned the the Quran off by heart. The girl was also mocked by her classmates for the same reason. The...

The open bidding for the installation and operation of at least 3,000 new spots of free wireless Internet (Wi-Fi hotspots) in municipalities across Greece will be announced by the end of February. The Greek government's goal is to allow...

Recently we saw the amazing and shocking advertisements for Doctors without Borders, where the famous Spanish actor Javier Bardem was screaming for other people’s pain. Now a new ad has been released and all of Greece appears to be screaming....

According to recent research that was presented to the Greek Parliament by the Education Minister, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos on Thursday, one out of ten schoolchildren (10%) are victims of bullying. As expected, the research reveals that the ratio of boys compared...

The German economist and former member of the European Commission’s Task Force for Greece, Jens Bastian proposes an international summit for the Greek debt, similar to the one organized in 1952, which will link the debt’s “haircut” with certain...

The Greek Ombudsman in relation to the case of four-year old Maria who was found in a Roma camp in Larissa, central Greece, accuses the Greek media of reproducing stereotypes and helping to perpetuate discrimination against specific social groups. The...