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Brussels: Greek President of Taxi Drivers Announces Strike

The taxi drivers in Brussels are protesting because they are being obliged by the government to install a new metre in their vehicles. The taxi drivers were gathered in the centre of the city, blocking the inner Brussels orbital...

New Bill Predicts Imprisonment for Tax Evaders

The new bill of the Finance Ministry predicts imprisonment of tax evaders in the combat against tax evasion and will be submitted to the Greek Parliament in a few days. Concerning the big cases of tax evasion and inflow of...

Shocking Data on Violence Against Women in Greece

November 25 has been established by the U.N. as  the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The phenomenon of domestic violence incidents are shocking and unfortunately  still occurring widely, especially in Greece. The International Day for the Elimination of...

EOPYY Doctors On 24-hour Recurring Strikes

The insurance policyholders of EOPYY, will be afflicted after the doctors' decision to proceed with 24-hour recurring strikes until Wednesday, November 27. The doctors have left open the possibility of continuing their mobilizations until further notice. The doctors, reacting to...

Weakness in Greek Foster Care System

The Greek foster care system has provided assistance in many parts of the world for children under the state’s care but nowadays remains almost inactive because of bureaucracy and a shortage of staff at the relevant authorities. According to newspaper...

Crisis Hits Greek Red Cross

The Greek Red Cross is facing major financial and organizational problems and does not have the resources to even organize fundraisers to help the needy. The public relations manager of the Greek Red Cross (EES) Andreas Potamianos made this statement...

Lydia Giannakopoulou: "My Mother Would Say My Life Was Hers"

The Greek writer Lydia Giannakopoulos has given many interviews in television and magazines, while promoting her new book “To chadi tis miteras” (A mother’s caress) that quickly became popular in Greece. The autobiographical book is about her childhood and...

Crucial Meetings in Effort to Reopen Greek Universities

Today a crucial general meeting took place between the rectors of the University of Athens and Minister of Education, Kostantinos Arvanitopoulos, who are making efforts to reopen the Higher Educational Institutions (AEI). The administrators of universities are on strike for...

Greece's National Anthem Copyrights Belongs to a Private Company?

The Greek national anthem became a victim of political and online commercialization. The deputies of Independent Greeks, Ioannis Dimaras and Terens Kouik announced that whoever uses the national anthem in online platforms, must pay to a private company holding...

Greek Draft Budget for 2014 Not Yet Approved

The government of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras submitted their  2014 draft budget to parliament on Thursday, envisaging additional saving to the tune of more than 1 billion euros. On hopes of emerging from six years of recession next year,...

Crete: Man Wants to Sell His Kidney for Money

A father driven by his desperation wrote the following note on the bulletin board of the General Hospital in Heraklion. “I don’t just want to sell my kidney; I would sell my own head if it meant that my...

Inheritance of a Greek Housemaid and Missing Beneficiaries

The death of an 82-year-old woman from Corfu who lived in London for decades, brought an enormous inheritance to surface. However its recipients are missing. If no relatives of the deceased appear, in order to collect the inheritance, then...

4 of 10 Greeks Borrow Money to Pay Bills

The tough reality that hundreds of Greek households have to face due to the Greek Economic Crisis is depicted in a survey that was carried out by Trendbox, a Dutch independent research company. In this survey we can see...

Fake Weddings for Hellenization of Foreigners

After the accusation from the Ministry of Interior, the prosecutor in the municipality of Achaia is investigating the illegal Hellenization process through fake marriages between Greeks and foreigners. The mayor and some town councilors in the municipality of Achaia...

Turkey Accuses Greece of Doubting their Religious Freedoms

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc suggested last week, that he would like to see Hagia Sophia as a mosque. The diplomatic argument between Greece and Turkey continued this Wednesday with the announcement that the Turks have “nothing to...