February 21, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The state has lodged an appeal against the only, so far, court decision awarding compensation to relatives of victims of the deadly fire in Mati, East Attica, in 2018. In December 2022, the court awarded 300,000 euros to five relatives of a 77-year-old woman from Neos Voutzas who burned to …
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December 6, 2022
Greece, Politics
Leader of Greece’s socialist PASOK-KINAL party, Nikos Androulakis, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on Monday over the wiretapping of his mobile phone. Androulakis appealed to the ECHR for the wiretapping of his mobile phone, complaining that he was not given the opportunity to be officially informed of …
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April 11, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s top court, the Council of State, has been called to decide whether the 100-euro monthly fine imposed to unvaccinated citizens over 60 is legal and conform with the country’s Constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights. Several citizens over 60, unvaccinated against Covid-19, appealed to the CoS demanding …
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February 17, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The mother of the businessman abducted 50 days ago has gone public with an appeal to the kidnappers as there has been not contact to them since quite some time. The 40-year-old man was abducted near his home in Drafi, eastern Attica, in the night of December 28, 2021. Speaking …
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March 18, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s Health Minister urged private doctors to volunteer their services to the state health system as it struggles to rein in fast-spreading Covid-19 infections. If no 200 doctors respond to the appeal, he will recommend their requisition. “We are at the most critical juncture of the pandemic,” Health Minister Vassilis …
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March 10, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias appealed to private doctors on Wednesday to join the public health system currently under immense pressure due to spike of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. The Minister offered incentives to doctors like a monthly salary of 2,000 euros which will not be taxed or confiscated in case …
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October 19, 2020
Greece, Politics
The state prosecutor in Golden Dawn trial proposed on Monday that the sentences of those convicted to over 10 years imprisonment be suspended pending their convicts’ appeal. Exempted from sentence suspension should be the murderer of 33-year-old rapper Pavlos Fyssas, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prosecutor Adamantia Oikonomou has …
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July 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
“I call on tourists to follow the health protocols for the coronavirus,,” Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Saturday. Visiting the island of Crete and inspecting the local health facilities, Kikilias appealed on foreign visitors to observe the health protocols during their staying in the country. “We have hired …
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March 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A 89-year-old man died in the hospital of Kastoria early Saturday. He is the fifth confirmed coronavirus victim to have died in the area and the 29. in the country since the beginning of the outbreak. He was reportedly underlying serious health problems. According to local media, the confirmed cases …
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May 18, 2019
Greece
Greece’s top prosecutor ordered late Friday the review of the decision denying 17. November convict Dimitris Kourontinas a furlough. The move by Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou comes with Koufontinas on hunger-strike since beginning of May and hospitalized in intensive care since Friday. Dimitriou’s reasoning for the appeal is that …
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September 16, 2018
Social
The Metropolitan Community Clinic Elliniko is in urgent need of milk for babies and infants as well as of diapers. ” Unfortunately we are in difficult position to ask for your help for one more time, the Metropolitan Clinic writes in a statement issued on Sunday, September 16th 2018. The …
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June 28, 2018
Greece, Politics
Pan-Macedonian organizations filed an appeal to Greece’s supreme court, Council of State asking for the suspension and annulment of the Macedonia Agreement signed two weeks ago between Greece and FYROM. The organizations claim, the Agreement violates the Greek Constitution. The 14 organizations and federations claim that the Agreement violates Article …
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May 18, 2018
Refugees
The Ecological Movement of Thessaloniki has issued an appeal for help for refugees in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. The second biggest city of Greece is experiencing a continuous inflow of refugees in the last four months that is permanently on the rise. A few tens to a few hundreds of people …
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April 30, 2018
Economy
Greece’s flagship privatization of the former Athens international airport in the area of Helliniko along the Athens Riviera has received a fresh blow after a group of citizens and several legal entities appealed to Council of State demanding the revoke of the relevant presidential decree. The appeal is expected to …
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April 13, 2018
Politics, World
A court in Greece rejected two Maltese requests to extradite Russian whistleblower Maria Efimova to Malta on Thursday. Efimova was the whistleblower who reportedly helped Daphne Caruana Galizia’s investigation into high-level corruption in Malta. Caruana Galizia was murdered in a car bombing in October 2017. Judges in Athens said the …
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March 27, 2018
Lifestyle
Private interests try to delay for one more time the operation of the cremation center in Elaionas, West Athens, and a number of businesses appealed to Greece’s supreme court Council of State claiming it is against the constitution. According to daily efsyn, several big businesses and one bank appealed to …
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March 26, 2018
Lifestyle
A prosecutor of the misdemeanors court in Aigio, western Greece, has appealed an earlier court decision to acquit bishop Amvrosios, on the charge of inciting hatred against homosexuals. The controversial bishop of Kalavryta most likely will find himself back to the court room. That decision had cleared Amvrosios of violating …
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November 20, 2017
Very Mix
The Municipality of Mandra in West Attica has issued a call for help for the flood victims. Food, drinking water, medicine, clothing and footwear but also sleeping bags and blankets are needed for the thousands of families affected by the floods, exposed in cold and decreasing temperatures in houses and …
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November 16, 2017
animals
Check below for updates, bank and paypal accounts and contact information. It was heartbreaking to watch the dogs of a missing man, probably buried under tons of mud and rubble in the basement of a house Mandra, the area most affected by the deadly flash floods in West Attica. Fire …
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September 15, 2017
Social
Mayors in Greece’s top touristic destinations on the islands appeal at locals to adopt a teacher even if temporary. A big accommodation problem emerged on islands like Mykonos and Santorini, when part-time teachers in primary and secondary education were assigned end of August the islands considered to be top tourist …
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