Society
Crime
Police Officers Accused of Stealing
One police officer and three special guards in Greece were suspended for abuse of power, unlawful home invasion, theft and bodily injury, as the Hellenic Police announced on Friday.
According to the charges, following a routine check on foreign nationals...
Economy
Controversial Proposal for Tackling Unemployment
Centre of planning and Economic Research in Greece has proposed a controversial measure in order to deal with the problem of increasing unemployment in the country.
The measure includes unpaid work for the young and unemployed up to 24 years...
Europe
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Congratulations to Greek Prosecutors
The German magazine Spiegel is advertising its new issue which is expected to include a revealing reportage on the armament programs in Greece. The title is indicative of the content “Everything on Greece’s briberies.”
At the same time, Süddeutsche Zeitung...
Greece
10+1 Questions That Bore the Greeks
The characteristics in which foreigners associate Greeks are plentiful, to such an extent that they cannot imagine anything Greek without thinking of the following characteristics.......
For them, Greece means tzatziki, syrtaki, souvlaki, Mykonos, bouzoukia, mousaka and of course ancient monuments....
Greece
A Greek Nightbus Different from Others
Live music, good mood and a ...night bus, that's what it takes to make a successful party. The group Atenistas decided to highlight the problem of so few night bus routes in Athens, with a secret after midnight party on bus line...
Crime
Savvas Xeros: "Christodoulos is in Mortal Danger"
Savvas Xeros, the imprisoned member of terrorist organisation November 17 and brother of the fugitive Christodoulos Xeros, commented on his brothers escape and the video announcing his return to action.
Xeros claimes that his brother is facing "mortal danger". He also revealed that...
Business
IMA-GSEVEE Survey: Greek Housholds in Despair
The annual survey carried out by the Small Enterprises’ Institute (IME) of the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen & Merchants (GSEVEE) reveals that the worsening of Greek households’ finances has led to big cuts in expenditure, especially for food,...
Greece
Immigrants From Farmakonisi Arrive in Piraeus
On Thursday at 10am in the morning, 16 survivors – most of them Afghans – of the wreck in Farmakonisi arrived at Piraeus port. While those people managed to survive, at least four others lost their lives while 10...
Greece
Greek Doctors Extend Strike
Doctors of EOPYY have decided once more to extend their strike until February 7. On Thursday morning, doctors gathered outside the Social Insurance Institute (IKA) office in Pagrati and held a protest rally. “We are on strike not because...
Environment
WWF: Four In Ten Greeks Throw Away Food
Despite the impact of the economic crisis on household budgets, four in ten Greeks admit to throwing away food at least once or twice a month, according to a new survey carried out by the WWF Greece conservation group.
The same...
Cyprus
Second Divine Liturgy in Famagusta Church
On Sunday January 26, from 7.30 am to 10.30 am, a divine liturgy will be held in the church of Ayios Georgios (Exorinou) within the walls of Famagusta. The service, which will be led by the Bishopric of Constantia...
Greece
Independent Greeks MP's Immunity Lifted
Greece’s Parliament decided on Wednesday January 22, to lift the immunity of the Independent Greek MPVassilis Kapernaros, but not of the deputies Miltiadis Varvitsiotis and Argyris Dinopoulos.
According to Christos Markogiannakis, who presided at the voting, about 230 deputies took...
Greece
Teacher Accused of Urging Students to Slap Classmate
A 50-year-old teacher is detained in the Police Department of Arta, central Greece, following a complaint made by the mother of an 8-year-old student. The mother reported that the teacher urged her son's classmates to slap him, as a...
Business
Deutsche Welle: Greeks Exploit Greeks in Germany
In the first decades following the Second World War, Greeks traveled to Germany organized. They knew that there would be someone to welcome them at the train station, that they would have a house, security and above all a...
Greece
Greek News in Turkish!
The Greek TV station Channel 6 (Kanali 6) in the region of Xanthi, Thrace, northeastern Greece and the journalist John Sidiropoulos decided to create a 6 minute information bulletin in Turkish. The purpose was to reduce the isolation felt by...