April 6, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
I live in a country where a very wealthy Prime Minister who seems to have lost contact with reality and society tries to convince Greeks that “if you live in poverty and are barefoot, you can still smile!” During a visit to Ioannina, Epirus in North-West Greece, on Wednesday, PM …
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April 7, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The presence of a neo-nazi Azov soldier during the address by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the Greek Parliament triggered very strong reactions. Sharp criticism came not only from all opposition parties but also by former New Democracy Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. After Zelenskyy’s speech, an Ukrainian man appeared on …
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April 4, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
The 33-year-old mother charged with the premeditated murder of one of her three daughters was remanded custody and was taken back to prison after she testified for over nine hours before the investigating magistrate and the prosecutor on Monday. Investigation continues at multiple levels including the deaths of the two …
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September 12, 2021
Greece, Politics
Greece’s economy will grow 5.9% during 2021, far more than the original 3.6% estimate, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Saturday at the at the Thessaloniki International Fair, where heads of government traditionally announce the coming year’s economic policies and relief measures for the society. Mitsotakis justified the growth revision based …
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October 6, 2020
animals, FEATURED
The appalling torture of a dog in a village in Chania has mobilized hundreds of animal lovers not only in Crete. A local two-legged beast hanged his dog on a tree and cut his testicles. The neighbors did not react to the dog screaming in endless pain. It was a German …
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January 21, 2020
Greece
Tensions in the Greek-Turkish relations preoccupy not only the politicians and the media, but also the Greek society. More than half of the Greeks consider as “high” the risk of a “hot incident” with Turkey,, a public opinion poll has shown. A poll conducted by MRB on behalf of Stat …
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November 16, 2019
Greece, Politics
Fourth six years after the Polytechnic Students’ Uprising in November 1973 and the number of casualties is still a taboo for a part of the Greek society. The question is simple: Were the Casualties, Yes or No? Every year, on the anniversary, Greeks get involved in an endless argument race: …
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February 7, 2019
Social
Lacta, Greece’s leading chocolate producer, did something special and ‘provocative’ for the country’s conservative society: the special campaign for Valentine’s Day “Act for love – Embrace all Tastes of Love. The campaign reflects social diversity, heterosexual and homosexual couples, people with disabilities. “Love has no color, age, nationality and gender. …
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February 1, 2018
Social
Greek society in economic decline: Three out of four are long-time unemployed. 51% of the households depends on pensions. One in five households is afraid to lose its home. 70% of the young Greeks want to look for a work abroad. 16.3% say they cannot afford to cover an extraordinary …
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December 24, 2017
Editor, Social
Ignorance? Want? Ugly, mean and greedy little creatures? That was in mid-Victorian England and in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. In the novel that has touched millions people ever since it was first published in 1843, ‘the two emaciated children” grow up to be adults, Ignorance as adult man in …
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December 19, 2017
Social, Society
Pessimism, fear and insecurity: this is how the Greeks precept the present and the future. According to a survey conducted by MRB for Sunday newspaper To Vima, the overwhelming majority of Greeks, 87.2%, believes that things will generally go “pretty” or “very bad”, while the youth is considering to migrate …
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October 3, 2017
Arts, Culture
Amazing portraits by photographer Nikos Markou. Young and old Greeks speak about how Politics and Society Impact their Lives. The project “Life Narratives” is a contemporary photographic series based on an audiovisual work, “which seems to engrave history” as the Edge of Humanity Magazine notes. “The portrait sits still as …
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April 2, 2017
Guest Posts, Opinion
We often speak of Greece ‘s “pathogenic diseases” that have infected of the political system and the society. We use the term to describe notorious and incurable habits that have settled here with their deep roots. We use this expression to put the blame on typical Greek features characteristic for …
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June 8, 2016
Society
Doctors working in public hospitals gathered in downtown Athens to protest the admittedly horrible situation in Greece’s hospitals. Holding banners and chanting slogan, doctors and other hospital personnel demanded raise in the public funding and hiring of doctors and nurses. Tension between protesters and riot police. Protesters have been carrying …
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July 23, 2015
Economy
The impact of a possible Grexit for the Greek economy and society has been outlined in a study conducted by consultancy firm Ernst & Young in cooperation with Oxford Economics. “The study was launched in March 2015 and completed end of May 2015. The purpose was to provide information to …
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July 14, 2015
Politics
The overwhelming majority of Greeks want to the Parliament to approve the agreement between PM Alexis Tsipras and the creditors. In a public opinion survey conducted by Kappa Research on July 14th 2015 for daily To Vima,gr 70.1% says that the Parliament has to approve the Brussels agreement and thus …
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July 7, 2015
Economy, Society
“I have enough cash and enough food at home. Now, I sit and wait,” a friend told me this morning. Anna is extremely worried that creditors will let Greece down with whatever the cost for the society. “They want Greece out of the euro and the EU, whatever the government …
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September 26, 2014
Society
It was high time that the real data of the economic situation of the Greek society come to the surface! 2.5 million Greeks live below the line of relative poverty and another 3.8million people are at risk of poverty! A total of 6.3million people, which means more than half of …
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March 23, 2014
Society
It needed two months of ‘promises and mockery’, the mobilization of a whole island and the public outcry until 4.5-year-old “Panoulis” -as his friends and supporters call him -could safely step into the path of his therapy. Greek Health Ministry finally approved to cover part of the money needed for …
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March 18, 2014
Economy
After seven months of tough negotiations between the Greek government and the representatives of the country’s lenders, the Troika, a deal was sealed on Tuesday. Right after the deal, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras held a press conference where he announced where and how the primary surplus will be distributed …
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