Society

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...

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...

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’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...

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...

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...

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...

The Guardian featured an article today about George Soros and the opening of his “Solidarity Center” in Thessaloniki, Greece, the first of many he plans to open in order to help Greeks who were hit the worst by the...

Shock and outrage is the obvious reaction after the news of a father raping his 18 year-old daughter in Limassol, Cyprus broke out. The 18 year-old girl arrived at a police station early in the morning accusing her 53 year-old...

  On the occasion of Greece’s presidency of the EU Council, various NGO’s and trade unions, human rights and civil society organizations from across Europe, sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament asking him to scrutinize a...

There is no doubt that an abandoned building on the top of a mountain can provide the ideal setting for a thriller movie. The former Athenian sanatorium on Mount Parnitha emerges like a ghost through the scorched grounds which...

 The Irish airline, Ryanair, with its new commercial spot, is reviving theories on the independence of Crete. How so? Ryanair, on a video showing the changes prepared by the airline for 2014, presents various destinations such as Nice, Lisbon, Berlin...

The Public Power Corporation S.A Hellas (DEI) could not escape the tragic reality that the majority of Greek enterprises and households face every day.  There is a deficit in DEI’s revenue due to unpaid bills, which reaches the amount...

Within a week, about half a million pilgrims kneeled in front of the Holy Gifts of the Magi which were transferred to Russia by the Abbot of St. Paul’s monastery, archimandrite Parthenios. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia,...

Another two suicides in the Dodecanese, eastern Greece, are added to the long and tragic list. Last Thursday on Leros, a 20 year-old girl hanged herself, while on Kos, a 42 year-old father of two ended his life with a...