Society

Students at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Patras engaged in scuffles over disagreements concerning the government's so-called Athena project to consolidate colleges. It reportedly began when some assembly members refused to resign their positions. A large group of students...

In a move seen only in regimes like Syria, Iran and North Korea, the Greek government tried to close down Indymedia Athens, an anti-governmental website on April 11. The site operates with a team of volunteers who share expenses and...

Once it was the sacred hill of the Muses, across the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis. Today, it is  simply the place for the homeless. Now, that’s quite a Sacred place… However, a bourgeois society like the Greek one knows...

The Greek Education and Culture Attaché in Istanbul, Stauros Gioltzoglou,  in a shot at Germans who want Greeks to work harder - although statistics show they work more than their German counterparts already - said there's more to life...

The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, conducted a research among the 29 wealthier countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that shows Greek children rank 25th in well-being, but 5th in a happiness index. The result...

Nearly six thousand children in Greece live on the street. Little girls and boys who sell tissues and flowers, clean car windows at traffic lights or beg passers-by to make a living. These children are mainly from other countries such...

Kalamata’s Roma community and members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party almost battled at the Kalamata General Hospital after the extreme right-wingers came into the facility demanding to know whether there were foreign nurses or workers there. Golden Dawn,...

In answer to the question “In general, do you think things in Greece are heading to the right or the wrong direction?” 87 percent replied “to the wrong direction” and only 5 percent said “to the right”, while...

Despite fears that the country's crushing economic crisis would create a surge in violence, robberies and other serious crime, Greek police report that the number of crimes fell in the first two months of this year. Homicides fell by 22.5...

Truck drivers in Greece are demanding the removal of an ad by an online travel agency that shows an apparently gay truck driver trying to seduce a young male hitchhiker. The Truck Drivers Association of Greece maintains that the spot...

With a record 27 percent unemployment rate and crushing austerity measures impoverishing 20 percent of Greeks, many are turning to living in trailers instead of homes or apartments they can no longer afford. The financial crisis, unemployment, high taxes -...

Third-grade students in Demenika Senior High School, a village near Patras, taught lessons of care and generosity that will for long be remembered. The children were informed some days ago via e-mail sent to all the schools of the region...

There was tension at the students' demonstration outside the Parliament, in protest of the changes the Athena project will implement to Universities. Students burned the EU flag and the police made use of tear gas. A little after 4...

No less than 150,000 Greeks have left their country after graduation in the last five years. They are estimated to have moved to more than 70 countries to find work, a conference organized by the University of Macedonia in...

Greek filmmaker Dimitris Kollatos was arrested, on March 27 at his house in Kolonaki, Athens on the charge of insulting the national emblem. Kollatos raised on the balcony of his house, which is situated almost opposite the German Embassy, a...