Calamos Supports Greece

Society

Greek Couple Arrested for Buying Baby

The Greek police arrested a couple suspected of having purchased an 8-month-old Roma girl and trying to register her as their own child. The couple, a 53-year-old man and his 48-year-old wife, were arrested in Ano Liosia. According to an announcement...

Stournaras: 500 million euros Should Come From Social Security Funds

The Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras opened the discussion for new measures saying that next year the government will seek an additional 500 million euros in budget cuts from social security funds. In an interview with Greek newspaper “Ta Nea”...

Are You a "Real Greek?"

If you have doubts about how Greek you are, then you have to read the following list with all the characteristics of a "real Greek." If most of them sound familiar to you then... you are definitely Greek.  This rather...

Mass Surveillance Of Journalists Due to Skouries Mine Case

Transcripted phone conversations of journalists that work in Greek and foreign media is included in the criminal file of those who are accused for participating in a “criminal organization” in Skouries. According to Eleftherotypia, phone interviews that the members...

Bulgarian Media: Τhis is the Mother of the Little Blond Girl Found in Greece (Video)

According to the Bulgarian media, there is new data for the case of Maria, the little blond girl found in Greece. It appears that her biological parents were found in the town Stara Zagora in Bulgaria. As reported in the...

Little Blond Girl Maria's Biological Parents Found in Bulgaria?

According to the Bulgarian media, there is new data for the case of Maria, the little blond girl found in Greece. It appears that her biological parents were found in the town Stara Zagora in Bulgaria. As reported in the...

Council of Europe: Far-Right Gangs Attack Roma Camps

“Invasions of Roma Camps all over Europe, are not only by the police, but also from far-right gang groups, and are becoming a common phenomenon after the incident that occurred in Greece -little Maria who was found in a...

"KaliMerhaba" Project-Exploration of Thessaloniki and Izmir

Five young people from Thessaloniki, Greece, and five from Izmir, Turkey, started a ten-month voyage in order to investigate the common elements of the two cities and record them using new technologies. As the project’s official facebook account informs us...

Angeliki Nikolouli Talks Latest Findings About Little Maria Found in Greece

The Greek investigative journalist who has found more than 650 missing persons talks about Maria, the girl who was found by police at a Roma camp in Greece. Angeliki Nikolouli, who has been twice included in the Guinness book...

Hundreds of Child Beggars in Streets of Athens and Thessaloniki

At least 900 child-beggars of various nationalities wander in the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki , begging at traffic lights. This data, published exclusively by the newspaper "Eleftheros Typos" was being selected from May 2012 until June 2013 ....

New Cuts and No Pension Before 62

The social security issue is once again on the table after the statements of the Finance Minister Yiannis Stouraras, and of the Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis in Parliament. Mr. Vroutsis made clear, that the law will be strictly implemented...

“Μarathon Runner” Protest Arrives in Athens

At 10am, it was expected for the school wardens to reach Syntagma Square. The “marathon runner” march of  Greek school wardens began in Thessaloniki on the 28th of September with slogan “Marathon of Primary surplus, Unemployment, Poverty and Destitution,” ended...

5.1% Increase of Greek Immigrants in Germany

Greek immigrants in Germany are reaching a record number over the last twenty years, as last year, the greatest increase since 1993 corresponding to 4.1% was recorded. As it was announced by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this large increase...

Roma in Greece: Tough Life, Segregation and… Crimes

The issue of the Roma population in Greece remains controversial to date and the case of the little girl Maria who was found at a Roma camp living with a couple who has been charged for her abduction has...

More Blond Girls in Roma Camps?

After news of the couple accused of abducting the little blonde, green-eyed girl in Greece, Roma now seem to face a stigmatization as being child traffickers. Amnesty International is fighting to protect their rights and condemns the unfair and...