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Ex Golden Dawn member commits suicide after double murder of Roma men
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Greece Weather: Temperatures blow seasonal average, snow
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February 8, 2025
Greece, Cyprus among UN nations supporting ICC after Trump sanctions
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Santorini earthquakes: Schools remain closed on 4 islands for another week
Schools on the islands of Thera (Santorini), Ios, Anafi, and Amorgos will remain closed for another …
February 7, 2025
Pupils, students rally in Greece demanding “Justice” for Tempi victims
Thousands of students and pupils took to the streets of bit and small cities throughout Greece on Fr…
February 5, 2025
MySafetyPlan: Greece’s digital map with safe places in case of earthquakes, natural disasters
The Ministry of Digital Governance announced on Wednesday the operation of the new digital platform …
February 5, 2025
Hotel construction on unique Sarakiniko beach on Milos
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Santorini: Scientists warn of high landslides risk in 5 areas
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Exploratory drilling may begin around Crete in 2025, says Minister
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Recent News
Urban Train-HSAP employees will be on work stoppage, tomorrow THursday, May 5, 2011. There will be no urban trains from 12:00 noon until 04:00 p.m. The employees are holding a meeting to decide about further actions as they protest the mandadory employees’ transfers to other departments.
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Education Ministry decision angers parents of special needs university candidates
Hundreds of students with special needs -candidates for the university entrance exams – are undergoing an unbelievable stress test as the Minister of Education, Anna Diamantopoulou, abolished the special exams centres in several areas across the country. Alone from the island of Crete 160 boys and girls will have to travel to …
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Athens: Man-Dog Happy Reunion after 7 months
A man and his dog enjoyed a happy reunion after the female four-legged had been missing for seven months. It has not been revealed how the dog went missing as she is 17 years old, with vision problem and pancreatitis. However she was located by members of animal welfare society of Agia Paraskevi in …
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Retired Lawmakers of Greek Parliament claim increases of €80 million
There are times when we are simply speechless…Then it seems that some people have not heard that Greece has been bailout, that we live on borrowed money. And thus these people are former lawmakers, among them possible ex-ministers responsible for the economic crisis! While the majority of Greeks ties further the economic …
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Unprecedented swearing in Greek Parliament
Members of the Greek Parliament Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee were almost turned into salt columns on Tuesday hearing a former national defense minister unspeakably swearing at the former director of national intelligence service. “Good Morning” said Ioannis Corantis to Vaggelis Meimarakis. This Good morningwas the spark that set the anger of …
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Mikis Theodorakis: Greeks, Wake Up!
Stately tall and in revolutionary mood Mikis Theodorakis appeared at the May Day demonstrations in Athens. Standing at Syntagma Square among members of his civic movement “Spark” he called the Greeks to wake up! “I came here to express with all protesters my opposition to the Government, the Troika (IMF/EU/ECB), the memorandum, …
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It’s official! Unemployment kills!
Yes, it is official! Unemployment leads not only to financial extermination but also to biological. This is said more or less by Lazlo Andor, EU Commissioner responsible for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Building a fairer future. Each percentage increase in national unemployment attributes to a 0.8% increase of suicides by …
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Price Cap in Fuel for 13 Prefectures – SMS service for cheap fuel in Athens
Greek government will impose a price cap for fuel in 13 prefectures across the country. These are Cyclades, Kefallonia, Grevena, Evros, Eyritania, Fokida, Dodecanese, Lasithi, Rethymno, Samos, Chios, Corfu and Lesvos. The price cap will be implemented as of tomorrow and it will be different for every prefecture. For example: …
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Thanasis Veggos: Greece’s Good Fella’ passed away
He was Greece’s “Good Fella”. Thanasis Veggos, actor and comedian, who made Greeks laugh into tears. He was playing roles of a poorr but honest guy, who loved to help his fellow men and women. As he was in real life. Thanasis Veggos died this morning, after long hospitalization due …
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Tax Card instead of Receipts Collection
This is the tax card that will help the Greek taxpayer to collect receipts for the income declaration but avoid the masses of nasty small pieces of thin paper. Greeks will give this card by any purchase and the data will be directly transferred to the Finance Ministry. The tax …
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Athens :Urban Train-HSAP – Work Stoppage, May 3
Urban Train-HSAP employees will be on work stoppage, tomorrow Tuesday, May 3, 2011. There will be no urban trains from 12:00 noon until 04:00 p.m. The employees are holding a meeting to decide about further actions as they protest the mandadory employees’ transfers to other departments.
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One year with the IMF: Young enterpreneurs’ broken dreams
Cousins Spyros,35, and Costas,29, opened their own business three years ago: An internet cafe in Thessaloniki. The business was running good. In fact, it was running excellent! The internet cafe was open 24/7. They had even had two employees. Last October Spyros and Costas started to realize the economic crisis and the …
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Greece, Cyprus among UN nations supporting ICC after Trump sanctions
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ND MEP Beleri votes for Musk-protege Fidias in EP, sparks controversy
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Greek nationals among U.S. ICE List of Deportable Immigrants
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Mitsotakis calls on EU partners to spend more on defense, create a €100bn Fund
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Greece opposes the sale of METEOR missiles to Turkey
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Former US Senator & friend of Greece Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison
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Gov’t narrative on Tempi disaster “derailed” after mass protests: PM interview
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Erdogan claims Greek “city of Thessaloniki” is part of Turkey
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Thousands of Greeks demand Justice for Tempi Victims; rallies in Greece & abroad
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Emblematic Archbishop Anastasios of Albania dies at 95
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“No Helmet, No Fuel” campaign becomes a Greek law
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Exploratory drilling may begin around Crete in 2025, says Minister
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CVC Healthcare Group to sell majority stake to UAE’s PureHealth
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Greece gives official go-ahead to Chevron for hydrocarbon exploration in “Block A2” and “South of Peloponnese”
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ECOFIN: Mid-term fiscal-structural plans of 21 members, incl. Greece
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Energy giant Chevron expresses interest in fossil fuel exploration in Greece