December 10, 2024
Hellenistic statue of nude male found during gas works in Athens
A white marble statue depicting a nude male in the Hellenistic style of Hermes Ludovisi type was fou…
December 9, 2024
Greece freezes decisions on asylum requests from Syrian refugees
Right after the historic developments in Syria over the weekend and the fall of the Assad regime, Gr…
December 9, 2024
Young man arrested for vandalism in new Thessaloniki metro
A 19-year-old man was arrested early Sunday morning for vandalizing “Venizelos” station …
December 9, 2024
“Christmas Basket” available in supermarkets Dec 11- Jan 3
Greece’s Development Ministry announced that the “Christmas Basket” available in s…
December 9, 2024
Athens Metro workers on work stoppage on Dec 13
Athens Metro Employees’ Union (SELMA) announced a work stoppage on the Metro operation in the …
December 9, 2024
Mafia-style shooting in Glyfada leaves two dead, one injured
Two men died and a third one was seriously injured in a shooting incident inside a betting shop in G…
December 6, 2024
Art forgery ring busted in Thessaloniki, 123 paintings sized, 3 arrests
Greek authorities busted an art forgery ring in Thessaloniki, seized 123 fake paintings by famed Gre…
December 6, 2024
Greece Weather Warning: Rainfalls, Thunderstorms; Alerts for islands
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a weather warning of heavy rainfalls and s…
December 5, 2024
Femicide: Man kills wife with hammer, calls police
A 39-year-old man called Greek Police short after 6:30 on Thursday evening saying he had killed his …
December 5, 2024
Thug who stabbed his dog get 2 months in Psy-Clinic, then released pending trial
A prosecutor in Athens ordered the detention and the temporary hospitalization in a psychiatric hosp…
Recent News
A cross-political party group of 150 members of the EU parliament asked EU Energy Commissioner Minister Günther Oettinger either to apologize or to resign over his proposal to German BILD news paper that “debt sinners should fly their flags at half mast in front of the EU buildings.”. The MEPs …
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EU Under TinFoilHat-Protection: No Greek Default, No Euro Exit
Europeans send reassuring messages just hours before the critical teleconference between Papandreou, Merkel and Sarkozy and hours after Kassandra’s bombshells heralding Greek default and pushing for exit from the euro zone. EU economic and monetary affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Wednesday morning: “A Greek default or euro exit would carry …
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Taxi Unionist Calls his Colleagues Not to Pay Back Bank Loans
Some 5,000 taxi owners from all over the country flocked outside the Greek Parliament to protest the draft bill that opens their profession. As many took their cars to reach downtown Athens the roads around Syntagma square were blocked for many hours. In fact, that was also their target: to …
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Greek PM Fevers Ahead Talks with Merkel-Sarkozy on Sept 14
Feverish meetings were held in the office of Greece’s prime ministers’ office on Tuesday ahead the teleconference of George Papandreou and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday, Sept 14th 2011. The meeting with top economists of the country were made under the specter of an …
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Theodorakis’ Resistance & Creativity Concert, Sept 16
Famous musician Mikis Theodorakis sounded really angry when I saw him on television. “We have to do something, the youth is absent! We have to set up tents in the area and music stages where people can come and go, exchange ideas and enjoy”. Theodorakis was featuring the Resistance and …
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Greek Twitters’ Taxation Ideas
That Greeks get one tax hike after the other doesn’t mean that they lose their sense of humor. On Sunday evening, after the announcement of the extra property levy, a hashtag “Taxation Ideas” (#idees-forologias) was soon set up in Twitter and internet users didn’t miss the chance to give taxation …
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Greece: Parents Seek Solutions for School Shortages
Book shortages, teachers shortages, pupils transport shortages. The austerity shows its presence in what it is called “the worst school year in the history of modern Greek state”. unless you have a child at primary or secondary school, you can hardly imagine the drag of the parents nowadays. Here is a report …
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Kos: “Gypsy” Found a Home!
Remember the black fluffy bear damped at the dogs’ kennel of Daidalos Hotel in Kos? Yes, the cute puppy given the name “Gypsy” by the hotel personnel? She found a home! One of the girls working at the entertainment section fell in love with her and convinced her mom to …
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German Experts Warn of Greek Default, orderly or not…
The situation is critical. There is immense pressure on Greece to stick to the reforms it has agreed upon with its lenders. The weekend was a horror for the markets only due to ‘alleged bankruptcy rumors’ and a nightmare for Greeks due to the new property levy, the sixth in …
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“Indignant” Greeks to Launch Protest, Sept 14th
“Indignant” Greeks call citizens for a protest outside the Parliament on Wednesday, September 14th 2011. In a statement they call people to a peaceful protest without political parties and ideologies, against that what politicians prepare against the people. The slogans for the protest are “No more measures, no property tax, …
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Greek Austerity: One Toilet Paper per Neighborhood…
“One salaried per family, one book per class, one policeman per protester, one political lie per minute, one doctor per hospital, one austerity measure per day. Who said the state is not organized?” That’s a Facebook status quotation posted by a Greek. It describes very well the situation we’re experience …
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Greece State Deficit Out of Control
This country makes me really wonder. After a series of taxes imposed to everything that stands, flies, crowls or swims the State Budget managed again to be in red, a nice hole of -4.586 billion euros for the execution of state budget during January-August 2011. How do they do it??? From the …
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SYRIZA left with 26 MPs after one more resignation
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Greece freezes decisions on asylum requests from Syrian refugees
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Unexpected resignation of Greek PM’s chief economic advisor
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Visit of Greek PM to Lebanon postponed
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Greece will not buy additional Rafale fighter jets
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Greek PM on a short visit to Beirut on Dec 6
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Metro of Thessaloniki starts operation after decades of delays
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SYRIZA down to 27 MPs after one more goes independent
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Greece to install 1,388 advanced traffic cameras to improve road safety
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One more MP resigns from SYRIZA leaving the party with 28 deputies
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“Tsipras saved Greece” writes Angela Merkel in her memoirs
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Inflation in Greece at 2.4% in Nov; food prices further up
Greece’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) in November 2024 increased by 2.4% compared with November 2023, … Read More » -
“Christmas Basket” available in supermarkets Dec 11- Jan 3
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OECD report on Greece: Strong Economy, Public Spending cuts necessary
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Prices in Greece’s supermarkets 0.72% down in Nov
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Electricity prices up in Greece: “Green” tariffs for Dec 2024