Society

Hundreds of breeders from Epirus, a Region northwestern of Greece, gathered July 26 outside the Dodoni dairy factory, demanding to be paid for the milk they had delivered and for which they said they had bot been compensated. Reports said...

Social phenomena we first met in the Brazilian favelas and in the shanty towns of the central states of the USA have come to Greece. In the Greece of destitution and misery, the first favelas are born from families who...

A new program concerning unemployed people that come from families whose members are all unemployed will be implemented in August through the Manpower Employment Organization (OAED). The program concerns 50,000 unemployed people, who will work for five months. The program...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hope to keep down social unrest is going unheeded as workers at public hospitals, health centers, welfare structures and the ambulance service will strike for 24 hours on July 24, leaving only a skeleton...

The Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) announced the decision of the Press unions to declare a 24-hour strike in the private mass media tomorrow, Friday July 19 against the operation for the closure of ERT. In the...

Officials on the southeastern Aegean island of Kalymnos are investigating what could the embezzlement of as much as 1 million euros ($1.3 million) from the estate of a 90-year-old woman days after she died. The case, reported in the local...

One in five households (20 percent) in Greece, Spain, Bulgaria and Croatia lives below the poverty line, which means that with social welfare included, it cannot manage to have disposable income equal or more than 60 percent of the...

The forecasts for unemployment in 2014 are ominous, according to data in a recent OECD report, which estimate that unemployment will dramatically increase in 2014, leaving 48 million people jobless in 34 member states of the OECD, among which...

Bloomberg published an article about Greece, according to which, despite the optimistic messages for the increase of tourism in Greece, unemployment, chiefly among young people, is at high levels. “For Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, the tangible recovery signs in...

A young archimandrite in Alexandroupoli who authorities said was allegedly sexually harassing young girls during confession will be brought before a Synod Court, according to the Holy Metropolis of Alexandroupoli. There was no information on whether he would also face...

A 19-year old boy, who lost his life in a road accident with a bicycle on July 11 in Volos, became the guardian angel for more than five patients. The parents of the 19-year old boy, Marios Souliotis, took a...

After months of relative calm, and just as he said Greece was beginning to show signs of turning the corner toward recovery next year, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces perhaps the biggest challenge to his new fragile coalition...

Couples planning to get married from every corner of the world, are waiting to exchange vows of eternal love in the picturesque Mpourtzi of Skiathos. Hundreds of couples in love from Great Britain, Qatar, Norway, Sweden and other Scandinavian countries...

The fired workers of the closed national broadcaster ERT, who were dismissed on June 11, derisively dismissed the government's new temporary station, EDT, set up in an attempt to meet a court order that ERT's signal had to be...

The most corrupt institutions in Greece - the most corrupt country in the European Union according to Transparency International - are the political parties critics say are running it into ruin. Politicians and journalists are viewed as on the take...