Keep Talking Greece

That’s the real Greek anti-austerity protests.

April 30, 2013 1

Head of EU Task Force, Horst Reichenbach, expressed his surprise about the fact that Greeks do not demonstrate against austerity. He described the Greeks’ reaction as “very moderate” apparently watching only a few hundreds fro civil servants union protesting outside the Parliament last Sunday. When lawmakers were voting a multi-bills …

Greece records four suicides in three days

April 30, 2013 1

Two men jump into death, another cuts his wrists and a fourth hangs himself. Almost daily are the news in the media about people who who break down under the weight of unsolved problems : economical or health problems, or even worse the combination of both. Among the suicides is …

Study: Germany make trillion-euro profits from the Euro

April 30, 2013 Comments Off on Study: Germany make trillion-euro profits from the Euro

Germany profits considerably form the euro even in case of high write-offs due to debt cuts of South European crisis sates, like Greece, Portugal, Spain. This is the result of a model calculation conducted by Prognos AG for German Bertelsmann Foundation. “Adding up the growth benefits of Euro membership results …

How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part VI)

April 29, 2013 2

In the expats-series KTG features short stories submitted foreigners living in Greece and how they come along with the crisis. If the country of origin is not in economic crisis, one may decide to go and try to built something new there. But how about expats living in Greece whose …

How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part V)

April 29, 2013 Comments Off on How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part V)

In the series “how expats experience the Greek crisis”, KTG received another personal expat story. The story is written by somebody who built up an existence here and decided to go away, unable to survive the economic crisis. Somebody who still asks herself three years later, whether “leaving was really …

Scientists confirm! “Austerity is too bad for your health”

April 29, 2013 1

Scientists confirm what we already know: that recession-driven austerity measures are not just bad for your wealth, they are also harming your health. It’s not only that your pockets are robbed causing sleepless nights, depression and heart attacks. The austerity cuts that primarily target the health sector boost infectious diseases …

Athens: taxi drivers surprisingly launch 7h work stoppage Apr 29/2013

April 29, 2013 1

You should not be surprised if you see no single yellow cab on the streets of Athens and broader Attica area today. Taxi owners and drivers surprisingly launched a work stoppage from 3 pm until 10 pm in order to join their unions general convention. The Union of Attica Motorists …

Greece moves forward: 15,000 lay-offs, minimum wage at €490/month, retroactive property levy

April 29, 2013 4

Development is here to stay! Unemployment will be combated, jobless will get a bread loaf and a piece of cheese and the revenues-bringing tax called “emergency property levy” will continue as such and in some cases even retroactive. On Sunday night, Greek government passed a multi-bill paving the way for …

UPD: Two cargo vessels collide off SW Greece, “PiriReis” sinks, 10 seamen missing

April 29, 2013 1

Two cargo vessels collided in the early morning hours of Monday with one of them to have sunk 78 nautical miles south west of Methoni, Peloponnese. Cargo ship “PiriReis” under Cook Islands flag with 17 Syrian seamen crew “sunk within 7 minutes” survivors said according to Greek media. Eight seamen …

Kardashian sisters go …surreal in Mykonos

April 28, 2013 1

Famous Kardashian clan, sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloé together with their parents moved to the island of Mykonos for a ten-day relaxing vacation. The Kardashian clan, 18 family members, and a camera crew of 50 people, flew from Athens to the island in the Aegean Sea, rented a luxury yacht …

Greece’s capital Athens sinks 10 millimeters per year due to excessive building construction

April 28, 2013 Comments Off on Greece’s capital Athens sinks 10 millimeters per year due to excessive building construction

Greece’s capital Athens sinks 10 millimeters annually because of the decline in surface soil, studies show. This phenomenon has been observed during the last 30 years and thus die to excessive building construction. According to Sunday newspaper Real News, the phenomenon was first observed by the European Space Agency, and …

Greece calls ISS: European Spaceport to open in Kalamata

April 28, 2013 5

Greece is soon to enter a new era. The … space era! A space port is to be set up in Kalamata, the capital of Messinia prefecture in Peloponnese. Soon. In 2015. This was revealed by Dr Periklis Papadopoulos, a NASA researcher: “Kalamata is ideal for creating a European Spaceport …