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Mayors Appeal for Cremation Facilities Accepted

The Mayor of Athens Giorgos Kaminis and the Mayor of Thessaloniki Yiannis Boutaris, expressed on Wednesday their support to SYRIZA's proposal for the creation of cremation facilities. Kaminis and Boutaris with an announcement issued by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and signed by...

Mixed Success for Greek Celebrities Standing for Election

The 2014 local elections across Greece are being contested by various Greek celebrities looking to secure the political spotlight. In many cases, their efforts have paid off with many celebrities being elected, or getting a second chance next Sunday. The most prominent victory is that...

Samaras Says Coalition Will Win Elections, Broaden

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his New Democracy Conservatives and coalition partner PASOK Socialists will hold together to win elections for Greek municipalities and the European Parliament, but hinted he might need to bring another party into the administration. The...

Greece's Political Scene Cloudy in View of Elections

Election analysts and political observers fear that the unpredictable outcome of the forthcoming two rounds of voting may further destabilize Greece's fragile political scene, with unprecedented levels of swing voters recorded just a week before the elections, as well as a record number...

Now Spiliotopoulos Supports Mosque – Out of Athens' Center

  Reeling from a backlash of criticism, New Democracy’s candidate for Athens Mayor, Aris Spiliotopoulos, said he now backs plans to create a mosque in Athens - as long as it's not in the historic center as currently planned. The coalition...

Maria Callas Museum to Open in 2015

Plans for the Maria Callas Museum were presented on April 2, at a press conference in the building which will host the museum in downtown Athens. The museum will be located in a neoclassical 4-storey building at 44 Mitropoleos Street....

New Poll on Upcoming Greek Elections

A recent poll conducted on behalf of Greek pollster Metron Analysis for the newspaper “To Ethnos tis Kiriakis,” reveals marginal differences in voting intentions with regards to Greece’s two leading parties, New Democracy and SYRIZA, with the main opposition...

Joint Campaign to Help Athens' Homeless

The City of Athens, in collaboration with four Greek NGOs, will launch a campaign in order to help the homeless of Athens and enable their social integration. The initiative, described by Athens' mayor Giorgos Kaminis as "a social experiment," is being funded with...

Golden Dawn Spokesman Wants Athens Mayor's Seat

Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman for Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, facing charges along with other party leaders of running a criminal gang, told supporters that he will run for Mayor of Athens next year despite the government's vow to...

Toxic Hospital Waste Overuns Greek Landfill

Greek environmental officials said they have discovered more than 20 tons of hazardous hospital waste was dumped in the Fylis landfill, Athens' main dumping ground outside the city, earlier in December, leading the government to set up an emergency...