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Damanaki Says Minimum Wage Cut Seen

After hoping to quash speculation that the government would again lower Greece's minimum wagem which has already been cut 22 percent to 586 euros ($777) a month before taxes, the European Union's Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki...

EU Commissioner‎ Damanaki States: "Greece Must Sacrifice or Leave Euro"

Greece must make sacrifices to overcome its debt crisis or face the risk of leaving the eurozone and return to the drachma, the European Commission's Greek representative warned Wednesday. "The greatest (achievement) of post-war Greece -- the euro and the...

Athens Polytechnic Uprising: 50 Years Ago Greeks Rebelled Against the Junta

The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred on November 17, 1973, as a massive student demonstration of the popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967 to 1974. The uprising that began on November 14, 1973, escalated to an open, anti-junta...

Athens Polytechnic Uprising: How Greek Students Overthrew a Coup

As of November 1973, it had been six and a half years since Greece had been placed under strict military rule. Opponents of the junta which took over in the April 21, 1967 coup had been tortured, jailed, exiled, or put...

Macedonia: The Story of a 26-year-old Name Dispute Between Greece and FYROM

The thorny issue of the name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has generated new tensions in Greek Parliament as the government appears ambivalent over the use of the word "Macedonia" in the name. Junior coalition partners Independent Greeks,...

Greece 5th in EU in PDO Products

Greece aims to launch 101 products with Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) to foreign markets. Some which were not previously more widely available abroad, include Kasseri cheese, Gruyere cheese of Naxos, the Cretan Rusk,...

EU Sides With Greece On Maritime Issues

The European Union is opening an Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) agenda with common European issues and reinforces the Greek side in negotiating with Turkey by fully adopting Greek positions on fisheries in the Mediterranean. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras expressed...

Greek Gastronomy Days At Benaki Museum

This week the Benaki Museum will host the event Gastronomy Days - Destination of Origin: Greece, aiming to highlight Greek cuisine and to promote the authentic and unique products of Greece. This event will have a different approach for the...

Samaras Stripping Greeks' Civil Liberties

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ plans to repeal laws granting citizenship to second-generation immigrants who were born in Greece, speak Greek and go to Greek school, and his embarrassing double jeopardy re-trial of an investigative journalist who revealed the...

Tension in Greece Ahead of Nov. 17 Protests

With most Greeks concentrating on making ends meet during a crushing economic crisis, and social unrest still growing against harsh austerity measures, the annual commemoration of the Nov. 17 student uprising against the country’s military dictatorship in 1973 has...

Former Athens Mayor Dimitris Beis Passes Away

Dimitris Beis, a former Athens mayor, has passed away at 84 years old. Beis studied Law at the university of Athens and did his master studies in Paris. In 1961 he joined “anendotos agonas,” a political party led by...

The Telegraph: Merkel Has Herself to Blame if Greece Defaults

  What will Angela Merkel be doing this morning? Will she be clinging, white-knuckled to her kafe, chasing her Bockwurst round her plate, waiting to hear that the Greeks have passed their austerity budget? If today’s vote in Athens is a...

Nov. 17: Get Ready for a Different Kind of Uprising

On Friday night, Nov. 16, 1973, police started facing off against protesters inside and outside the Athens[...]

"E-Learning for the Greek Diaspora" by the University of Crete

An ambitious and innovative project, which will complete and enrich the education of expatriate Greeks, will be finished by December, 2013. The project is an e-learning method for Greek Diaspora on which the Center of Intercultural and Migration Studies (E.DIA.M.ME) of...