Greece

By Andrew Tzembelicos* Watching countries across the globe respond to the COVID-19 crisis raises the question of how every country's preparedness for such an onslaught has differed and how each nation's people have risen -- or not -- to this...

The brain drain in Greece would make it very difficult for the country to recover from the economic crisis and return to normalcy, a Financial Times report has claimed. Greece may be ready to exit the third bailout program on...

The frequency of sexual contacts in Greek men aged 18-34 has increased by 35% in the last four months, according to data from the Andrological Institute of Athens. Head of the Andrology Institute of Athens, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, said that the ...

"We are worried about the increase in excessive alcohol consumption among adolescents and the heavy use overall, especially in provincial areas," said Greece's Health Minister Andreas Xanthos. Xanthos spoke at the 16th International Congress of the European Society of Biomedical...

The economic crisis in Greece had a substantial impact on certain ages and overall shortens life expectancy rates, an Imperial College London study says A group of researchers studied life expectancy by 2030 in 35 countries across the world, including...

The care home population in Greece has been affected by the economic crisis, even though public and private homes for the elderly are full. According to a 2015 Help Age International report, Greece is one of the worst countries for...

Sales of bread and milk dropped by 5% to 7% in the first two months of the year, said the President of the Association of Greek Food Industries (SEVT), Evangelos Kaloussis on Wednesday. Kaloussis addressed the annual SEVT conference saying...

Greece's children pay the price of the prolonged economic crisis, as a shelter for abused children is now taking in those whose parents are unable to provide food for them, a Reuters report says. As one fourth of the country's...

Couples in Greece struggle to make ends meets as they endure the economic crisis impacting the country with slashed salaries, austerities and a depreciation in the quality of day-to-day life. The results of living with such stress, according to the latest...

According to a Bank of Greece study, household investments in homes in Greece has decreased since 2008, up to as much as 85 percent in the fall of 2016. The first quarter of 2016 shows an estimated 1.2 billion euros...

Greeks lost 40% of their wealth in the years of the economic crisis, says a European Central Bank survey. The concentration of wealth among the richest households in the euro zone countries has increased since the debt crisis, although wealth...

The huge economic crisis that has struck Greece has resulted in the lockage of small and large businesses, however other historic Greek brands have been reborn and given new leases of life under new ownership. A revival of sorts...

A joint British-Greek study by the Imperial College of London (ICL), published in the "European Respiratory Journal,"  studied respiratory-related deaths in Greece during the years of the economic crisis and found that there had been a decline. The scientists studied...

More than 332,572 Greeks have emigrated abroad since 2010, at the onset of the economic crisis, says a General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad report. The data is compiled from figures coming from the migration authorities of the countries where Greeks...

The poor creditworthiness of most Greek citizens puts on hold the finance ministry's plans to give incentives for the use of credit cards as part of the campaign to fight tax evasion. Despite the increase in the use of plastic...