January 15, 2014
Tourism
Ryanair is opening two Greece bases in Athens and Thessaloniki from where it will launch nine new routes. As part of a $280 million investment, the budget carrier will base two aircraft in Athens and one in Thessaloniki from April. Its Athens base will operate 154 weekly flights and serve …
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January 8, 2014
Society
Workers at Athens trolley will launch a work stoppage between 12 noon and 4 p.m. on Thursday, January 9th 2014. No worries, that’s not a strike. Workers have to attend the general assembly of their union.
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January 7, 2014
Society
Greek police banned meetings and marches in Athens due to arrivals of European Union’s Very Important Persons (Van Rompuy, Barroso etc) on n January 8th 2014. the EU-VIPs will attend the official opening ceremony of the EU Greek Presidency. The police decision was taken for reasons of public safety, Greek …
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December 30, 2013
Very Mix
More than 60 shots were fired from automatic weapons at the gate of the German ambassador’s residence in Chalandri suburb of north Athens. The gunfire took place at 3.30 a.m. on Monday, nobody was injured. Ambassador Wolfgand Dold was inside the residence. According to Greek anti-terrorism police, the guard at …
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December 27, 2013
Politics
“God and justice” cannot save many people in a country where corruption keeps on infecting public officials. On Christmas Eve the president of Aglaia Kyriakou children’s hospital in Athens was arrested by police on suspicion of accepting bribe. “What suspicion?” one would wonder. Haris Tombouloglou was found to be in …
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December 23, 2013
Society
There were allegedly eight women standing next to the cash registers of several meat shops in Athens meat market Varvakeios located in the city’s center. They women wore neither a Christmas suit, nor anything else that could identify them. According to some “they were eight”, some others claimed “they were …
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December 23, 2013
Society
A police special guard, 28, killed himself in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri on Sunday after causing a fatal accident killing a senior woman, 75. According to Greek media, the fatal accident occurred in a two-lane road with lots of traffic and no crosswalk for pedestrians at that point. …
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December 20, 2013
Society
A farmer was seriously injured in the head and was taken to a nearby hospital when tension broke between protesting farmers from Peloponnese and riot police outside the Greek Parliament in downtown Athens. The angry farmers had come to Athens to protest the ‘unified property tax’ that will impose …
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December 20, 2013
Politics
I told you before: former transport minister Michalis Liapis, who claimed to be a “poor pensioner affected by the economic crisis” and therefore he counterfeit the license plates of his luxury vehicle, is a source of inspiration. Municipality workers soon to be laid off entered the office of deputy interior …
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December 10, 2013
Very Mix
A group of some 15-20 people dressed in black and wearing masks attacked the offices of a debt collecting agency that belongs to the sons of former Greek Parliament speaker and ex minister Dimitris Sioufas. Greek media report that the group of people attacked the offices with crowbars and smashed …
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November 18, 2013
Society
Temperatures sharply dropped recently after a long summer and a mild autumn. And yet, hardly a Greek dared starting heating his home. Unfordable prices of heating oil and even natural gas make a fuzzy warm home almost impossible. For a second year, for a second winter in the seventh year …
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November 18, 2013
Politics
A previously unknown urban guerrilla group calling itself “Militant Popular Revolutionary Forces” has claimed responsibility for the murders of two Golden Dawn members and the serious injuring of a third one on November 1.In an 18-page proclamation the group said that the shooting of the Golden Dawn members was a …
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November 17, 2013
Society
Thousands of people have joined the protest march to commemorate the Polytechnic school students’ uprising of 1973. The protest started at 3 pm from the Polytechnic University near Omonoia square in downtown Athens and the crowd moves up to the embassy of the United States in Ambelokoipoi. Protesters chant anti-fascist …
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November 16, 2013
Society
Several metro stations in downtown Athens will be closed to public on Sunday, November 17th 2013 due to protest march on the anniversary of Polytechnic school uprising. Specifically, metro strations <Syntagma>, <Panepistimio> and <Evaggelismos> will close as 1 o’clock noon time, while <Megaro Mousikis> and <Ambelokipoi> will close as of …
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November 14, 2013
Society
It was certainly not a good idea for the minister responsible for the mass lay-offs in Greek public sector to make an appearance near protesting school guards. Hardly had Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister for Administrative Reform got off his car outside the Interior Ministry in downtown Athens, when the group of …
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November 13, 2013
Society
Greek public sector union ADEDY will launch a work stoppage after 12 o’ clock noon on Thursday, November 14th 2013. A protest will start at 1 o’ click outside Athens University. The union opposes the mass lay-offs in the public sector. 4,000 people are expected to lose their jobs until …
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November 12, 2013
Earthquake, Very Mix
A powerful tremor shook Athens, although the epicenter of the earthquake was 116 km North-East from the Greek capital, in Istiaia, in Euboea. The tremor measured 4.9 on the Richter scale and occurred at 8:09 p.m. local time. Epicentre: Oraioi between Istiaia and Aidipsos The tremor was originally given as …
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November 12, 2013
Politics
Tuesday is not a good day for the representatives of Greece’s lenders – the Troika – to visit the Finance Ministry. While IMF’s Poul Thomsen became the target of a handful of angry coins on Tuesday, November 5th, another Troikan – a no-name representative this time, got involved in a …
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November 11, 2013
Society
I am so glad that somebody sat down and summarized what KTG has been reporting about for the last three years. Τhat is all the reporting about taxes and more taxes, and regular and emergency taxes that become permanent taxes. Not to forget the social security contributions and the income …
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November 8, 2013
Very Mix
Mysteries happen and everyone wonders “how was it possible?” An assailant stabbed the secretary of an investigation magistrate in Athens main court and the victim was transferred to the hospital with serious injuries on the back and the belly. An unidentified assailant stabbed the secretary of an investigating magistrate at …
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