Opinion

After a 3-week break due to ‘unexpected ‘circumstances’ …I started to work. I started to work? Not really. In the last three days I started to sit in front of the PC letting my eyes getting used again to the screen. It’s not easy and I kind of struggle to …

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A major and unusual change in the Greek parliamentary landscape. Left-wing SYRIZA has lost its “main opposition party” status as the second largest party after two MPs resigned on Thursday morning and the party has 29 seats in Parliament. Socialist PASOK is now Greece’s main opposition with 31 seats. The …

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COSCO dockworkers prevented a container full of ammunition destined for Israel from being loaded onto a ship bound for the port of Haifa on Thursday night. The ship was supposed to enter Piraeus port to load the container, which contained cargo that had arrived in Greece from North Macedonia. “We …

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It has been more than two weeks – or two months or two years, I kinda lost control of time – since extremely high temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius in the average are plaguing Greeks and visitors alike with heatwaves following each other. Even during the night, temperature° does not …

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They all presented themselves as ‘winners’ in the European elections beginning of the month, but the basis of the three major political parties in Greece is boiling. Then conservative New Democracy rules with less than 28% of the voters preference and this a year after the parliamentary elections that granted …

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis proceeded to a cabinet reshuffle on Friday in an effort to show to show that he received the voters’ message last Sunday where the conservative and neo-liberal New Democracy performed much lower than expected. From the very first moment after the European Elections results and …

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It took me hours today to get myself together and write a post about the commemoration actions and the marches of angry Greeks demanding Justice for the 57 victims of the Tempi train disaster on 28. February 2023. I lost my inner balance today and the reason was a new …

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Year 2023 was difficult for many people privately, partly a disaster for Greece with the Tempi dead, the floods and the wildfires; a total catastrophe for Gaza and its people, with insecurity for the troubled whole world in general. Exchange wishes for the New Year is a nice tradition … …

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I’m still around three weeks after the Covid-infection, still a bit weak, still with this distorted taste that even my favorite traditional Christmas sweets like Melomakarona and glazed chestnuts, Maron glace, taste simply…tasteless. Melomakarona just taste sweet but without any aroma and the dough as exiting as white paper-napkins, while …

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Dear KTG readers, I want to thank you for one more time for your wishes and concerns about my health and brief you about the latest state of mind, energy and affected taste. On Covid day 19 the general situation is all in all better, much better indeed than the …

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First of all, I want to thank from the deep of my heart all readers of this blog for their get-well wishes and worries about my health situation after contracting Covid-19. It’s really touching, folks, among them people I had no idea they are loyal followers of KTG. I have …

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I was tested COVId-Positive last week for the first time since the pandemic started 3.5 years ago and despite having kept all protection measures as before. I have mild symptoms and no fever, but an empty head and need endless hours of sleep and rest. I spend three days in …

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“Τhe new I bring is the return to the old, tidy Greece. In Greece, where the homemaker kept his house clean, followed the rules, the laws, was interested in his neighbor.” This was said by Stefanos Kasselakis, leader of main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA. “I have the will, I have …

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In an unexpected move but not a surprised one after the crushing defeat on the June 25 elections, Alexis Tsipras announced on Thursday noon that he resigns as leader of left-wing SYRIZA. He will not be a candidate in elections for the new party leadership, he added. This decision was …

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Broadcasting live the introduction statement by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the start of the cabinet meeting on Thursday morning was rather a flop even though several ministers showed deep mourning and devastation ten whole days after the deadly train collision in Tempi on February 28, 2023.. Addressing the ministers …

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Authorities in Greece arrested the station master in Larissa on Wednesday afternoon for the deadly train crash that costed the lives of at least 45 mostly young people and had dozens injured. According to the Larissa traffic police department that is conducting the investigation, the arrest order has been signed …

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The Greek Orthodox tradition to throw a Holy Cross into the waters on the  Epiphany Day remains largely a males-only issue even in the 21st century. Dozens of men, as young as 8 years old and as old as 89, jumped into the cold sea, into a river or a …

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“Investigations have ruled out lightning or a short circuit as the causes of Tuesday’s Penteli fire in North-East Athens,” Civil Protection Minister Christos Stylianides said at an extraordinary life briefing on Wednesday afternoon. It was certainly a surprise for the former EU Commissioner to have to rule out “lightning” on …

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Greece’s National Health Care organization EODY must have certainly believed that the “Ancient Greek Spirit” is eternal and every Greek hides a Pythagoras inside him – a mathematician… . Therefore, it issued its first weekly bulletin on Tuesday based on abysmal and fuzzy mathematics formulas that the average Greek has …

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Greece’s health authorities triggered a big confusion on Thursday afternoon, when they announced people as young as 30 years old could be administered the 4th dose (2nd booster shot) of vaccination against Covid-19. First it was the National Vaccination Committee that announced its decision to allow the 4th dose for …

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