June 6, 2017
Social, Society
Famous Greek actor Kostas Kazakos, director of Patras Municipal and Regional theater and former lawmaker with Greek Communist Party KKE, attacked young Greeks who leave the country seeking a job abroad. He called the thousands of people who seek a future outside a country with high employment ‘traitors’. “Whatever young …
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May 31, 2017
Social, Society
A case of child abuse that was recently revealed shocked the Greek society. A video was showing a father brutally beating his 14-year-old daughter. Taping the abuse was made possible because the man has installed video cameras in and outside the family home. Although the footage is not clear, one …
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May 27, 2017
Social, Society
Three-year old Dimitris has been laying in the Children Hospital Bambino Gesu in Rome, Italy since last Christmas. A hear failure has forced the Greek boy to be waiting for a transplant. Last Wednesday (May 24) the little boy received a VIP visit. US First Lady Melania Trump visited the …
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May 22, 2017
Social, Society
More than 1.2 million Greek pensioners live on less than 500 euros per month. The dramatic income decreases in main and supplementary pension are shown in data released by the System for Pensions Control and Payment “ILIOS“. A 6% deducted also from the low main pensions goes for health care. …
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May 8, 2017
Social, Society
A newborn was found in a telephone both on the island of Rhodes on Sunday. The baby was wrapped in bed sheets and put in a cardboard box. The baby had still the umbilical cord on. A handwritten note inside the box was urging people to help the baby. The …
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May 4, 2017
Social
The total humanitarian crisis, poverty and despair: young mom who just gave birth to a child a couple of days ago. A baby just eleven days old and an older child aged fourteen months. They live in absolute poverty in a home without electricity and hot water on the island …
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April 28, 2017
Social
The worst scenario about the fate of the missing 6-year-old girl was confirmed short after midnight on Thursday. The boy of little Stella was found in a garbage bin near the parents’ home. It was stuck in a big plastic bag for garbage. After hours of police interrogation, the father …
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April 27, 2017
Social, Society
Six-year-old Styliani Eikosipentaraki or Ecosipentaraki went missing from her parents’ home in Agia Varvara suburb of Piraeus in West Attica on Thursday morning, April 27th 2017. According to an Amber Alert announcement, the girl has a walking disability. She is 118 cm tall and weights 20 kg. she has brown …
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April 27, 2017
Economy, Social
The yearly tax discount will be reduced by 650 euros as of 2020, according to a draft agreement submitted to the government by the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund. The tax-free basis will be lowered from €8,636 currently to €5,685. In simple words this means: taxed will be …
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April 26, 2017
Social, Society
As if we did not have enough financial burdens, Greek Public Power Company increases charges on electricity bills and demands the payment of additional 735 million euros by millions of electricity consumers. “It is a small, temporary contribution,” Greek PPC said in a statement responding to the outcry. Greeks know …
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April 25, 2017
Social, Society
The implementation of the pension reform of 2016, leads to sudden death of incomes for survived widows and pushes a large portion of population to poverty. Widows’ pensions will by cut down to 50 percent of the deceased’s pension, new age criteria go into effect this month. According to so-called …
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April 25, 2017
Social
Firefighters transferred to the Fraport airports of the cosmopolitan islands Mykonos and Santorini are literally struggling to survive because the low wages do not allow them a descent living. They sleep on mattresses on the floor, inside fire trucks or even ambulance vehicles, they can hardly get a meal for …
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April 24, 2017
Social, Society
More and more Greeks buy their medication on credit to the pharmacy, repay the debt amount in installments, due to financial difficulties. According to the Pharmacies Association of Greece’s second biggest city Thessaloniki (FAT), at least 50-100 citizens per pharmacy claim to receive their medicines on credit. The debts of …
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April 19, 2017
Social, Society
After the economic crisis and years of austerity, child poverty is on the rise in wealthy countries, according to Unicef. In Spain, the proportion of children living below the poverty line increased by nine percentage points between 2008 and 2014, to reach almost 40%. In Greece, one in four children …
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April 18, 2017
Social, Society
A boy and a little girl were found abandoned outside the church of St. Panteleimon in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki on Tuesday afternoon. Residents who saw the toddlers roaming around alone for a couple of hours, called the police. The toddlers, a 3.5-year-old boy and a girl between 1.5 to 2 years …
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April 11, 2017
Social, Society
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated the 120-km section of the Corinth-Patras highway that makes the journey Athens-Patras possible in just 99 minutes. “Today we are inaugurating a work that many believed would never be completed,” the Prime Minister said adding that the highway “would never have been completed if it …
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April 11, 2017
Social, Society
Two deaths occurred in a less than a week because it took ages for the ambulance to reach the people in urgent need of medical care. A man died of heart attack on Monday because there was no driver available for the ambulance of the health center in the area. …
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April 6, 2017
Social, Society
Electricity bills pile up. It is not the pure cost for electricity that makes it unaffordable to many Greek households struggling with unemployment. It is the extra charges incl. municipality taxes and state broadcast fees doubling the amount a consumer has to pay to the Greek Public Power Company. There …
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April 4, 2017
Social, Society
Armed with camping tents, dozens of elementary school teachers set them up outside the Education Ministry in Athens to protest changes in hiring criteria. They quickly set up their tents blocking the two entrances of the ministry with the effect that the ministry workers could not leave the building when …
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April 4, 2017
Social, Society
Thousands of pensioners marched through the streets of downtown Athens on Tuesday demanding a stop to further pension cuts. Representatives met with Deputy Minister in charge of Social Security and Retirement, Tasos Petropoulos. The meeting ended without the result protesters had hoped to achieve. The Minister merely confirmed that the …
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