Reforms with serious side effects. A new society class has emerged in Greece of the economic crisis: the Working Poor. Skilled women and men, mostly university graduates, who work their way through with bad paid jobs. The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty …
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Drowned in debts, small cafe owner commits suicide in Symi
A small entrepreneur on the island of Symi put an end to his life unable to cope with his debts. The 60-year-old man was found hanging in his small cafe by his friends, taxi drivers who used to have their morning coffee before starting work. The small community on the …
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UPD Silversmith shoots dead 30-year-old thief in Drama, Northern Greece
A shop owner shot with his rifle an aspiring thief in the village Agios Athanasios, Drama, North Greece. The victim died on the sport. The perpetrator is a 79-year-old silversmith. The incident took place at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, when the 30-year-old thief was trying to break in the shop. …
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11-month-old infant dies of measles; first victim recorded in Greece
An infant just 11 months old is the first victim of measles in Greece. The baby was a Roma child that got infected with measles and died of septicemia. According to a statement of KEELNPO, the infant was not vaccinated. Private ANT1 TV reported that when the baby was taken …
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Rouvikonas anarchists threaten hospital doctor to “cut his hand off” if he takes bribes (fakelaki) again
Members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas raided the office of a clinic director in Public Hospital Evaggelismos in downtown Athens on Wednesday. Accusing him of taking money under the hand (fakelaki) by patients, they threatened him they “would cut his hand off” if he would do it again. In a …
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Church of Lesvos angers locals as it spends €100K earthquake donations in repair of churches
150,000 Australian dollars in donations were sent to Lesvos as aid for the victims of 6.4R earthquake last June. The local Metropolis decided, however, to spend the money in bricks for churches repair and not for humans in need. The outrage of the local community is big. Diaspora Greeks in …
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Lawmakers give green light for cremation facility to be constructed in Athens
Step by step, law by law, the project to allow Greeks to be cremated instead of buried in the country’s cemeteries comes a bit closer to materialization. Thirty years after the cremation alternative to burial was raised for the first time and eleven years after the relevant law, still no …
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Cholera bacteria detected in Maternity Hospital in Athens
Cholera bacteria has been detected in one of the biggest public maternity hospitals in downtown Athens. First samples from stagnated water in the basement of the hospital that have been examined in the hospital laboratory have shown “potentially enteropathogenic microorganisms.” The Maternity Hospital “Elena Venizelos” in downtown Athens sealed one …
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Granny gets evicted for a €20,000 debt that was not even hers
An elderly women got evicted from her own home in Kalamaki, Corinthos in North Peloponnese for a debt that it was not even hers. It was her son who had got a loan of 20,000 euros but was not paying back the installments. The elderly women had co-signed the loan …
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35.6% of Greece’s population at risk of poverty or social exclusion
More than one third of the Greek population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion. We have been reading this since 2012, occasionally it is been officially confirmed by European statistics authorities like the Eurostat. In the first two years of bailout agreements, the rates were below 30%. But …
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Greece’s public sector employees earn 38% more than private sector workers
Employees in Greece’s public sector earn much more than their colleagues in the private sector. According to a report by Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) private sectors workers earn an average of 38% less than in the public sector The SEV figures reveal that private sector workers still carry the …
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Greek Navy sends medical staff to islands of North & Eastern Aegean Sea
The General Staff of the Hellenic Navy has announced the schedule the interdisciplinary medical group that will conduct preventive medical checks to the residents of the islands of the north and eastern Aegean Sea. The interdisciplinary Group consists of medical and nursing staff of various specialists incl. general practitioner, cardiologist, …
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31-year-old Unemployed father of two commits suicide in Crete
A 31-year-old man shot himself with a rifle in the chest in a neighborhood of Heraklion on the island of Crete. He had left a note to his children. The man was found by his mother. According to local media, the man was unemployed something that had burdened him psychologically. …
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Greece’s Municipalities raise a Grave Levy in advance for the future last residence
We spoke about it in the past, during the first two bailout agreements when creditors’ demands were getting more and more absurd and taxes and levies were raised on everything that walked, stood or crawl. We talked about a Grave Levy for the future last residence. But it was joke. …
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Women raid Interior Ministry in Athens demanding more public nursery schools
Women raided the Interior Ministry in Athens demanding more places in nursery schools and scrapping all forms of parents’ contributions. The women said they forcefully entered the ministry because nobody from the political leadership would meet with them. The women were members of the Association of Greece’s Women and the …
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Santorini Mayor appeals to local residents “Adopt a teacher!”
Mayors in Greece’s top touristic destinations on the islands appeal at locals to adopt a teacher even if temporary. A big accommodation problem emerged on islands like Mykonos and Santorini, when part-time teachers in primary and secondary education were assigned end of August the islands considered to be top tourist …
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Absurd overtaxation: Low-incomers, unemployed taxed 3 times their income
Thousands of unemployed taxpayers with no income at all or very low one have been called to pay disproportionately high taxes between 2,000-4,500 euro. Why this? Blame the so-called deemed income criteria that calculate a fictitious tax according to living conditions and not real income. The absurdity of this taxation …
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Eldorado Gold miners raid and occupy Development Ministry (videos)
A group of ten workers at the Eldorado Gold mines managed to bypass police and entered the Development and Environment Ministry in Athens on Wednesday morning. Miners clashed with riot police when a larger group attempted to enter the ministry. Police made limited use of teargas. The 150 workers had …
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106 students at Patras University submit exactly the same assignment paper
106 students at the University of Patras have submitted exactly the same assignment paper in the course “Dynamic Mathematical Models” at the Department for Business Administration. The paper was submitted last June. When the similarities were discovered the university decided to punish these students and exclude them from the exams …
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Survey shows crisis-ridden Greek households cut even on milk and bread
The economic crisis continues to plague Greek households struggling too make ends meet – month in, month out. A survey conducted by Nielsen shows a decline in consumption and therefore the plight of thousands of families. Greeks cut on essential goods like milk and bread. The drop in the category …
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