October 23, 2024
Economy, FEATURED, News
Greece’s Public Power Corporation (PPC) on Tuesday announced a new service for the charging of electric cars at public PPC blue chargers and at home. This is the bluePass service, which combines charging at PPC blue public chargers with charging at home for a fixed monthly fee. Specifically, with the …
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November 21, 2023
Editor, FEATURED, Greece, Opinion, Politics
“Τhe new I bring is the return to the old, tidy Greece. In Greece, where the homemaker kept his house clean, followed the rules, the laws, was interested in his neighbor.” This was said by Stefanos Kasselakis, leader of main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA. “I have the will, I have …
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July 5, 2022
Economy
Germans have climbed to top place among foreign home buyers in Greece, spending increasing amounts on beach-side property in areas such as Crete and the Ionian islands. Data from Elxis, a leading provider of real estate services that specializes in high end holiday homes, shows that house sales to German …
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June 21, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
The death of a 76-year-old woman revealed the tragic life of her daughter: the 51-year-old woman was kept at home and was not allowed to leave it since she was 9 years old, a pupil of the 3rd grade. A whole life, a total of 42 years. According to media …
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January 14, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
While all media and TV channels report today on soaring electricity and heating prices, state broadcaster ERT 3 advised on Friday Greeks how to keep their homes warm in an inexpensive way. Some of the ERT’s fine solutions is to have a shower with the door open and to seal …
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January 14, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The oldest Greek, a granny of 117 years old, received the vaccine against the Covid-19 on Wednesday just to be able to hug her children again. Mrs Eleftheria is a resident at a care home for elderly in Nea Ionia suburb of western Athens. Visits by family members have been …
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December 30, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
What does a medical professional do when his wife and in-laws contract the disease at the center of a months-long pandemic? Gabriel Tachtatzoglou, a critical care nurse, did not feel good about the treatment options available in Greece’s second-largest city when his wife, both her parents and her brother came …
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June 10, 2020
Sports
Armed with stones, sticks and knives hooligans attacked the home of Dimitris Giannakopoulos on Wednesday evening, a day after the owner of Panathinaikos BC announced that he sells the basketball club for 25 million euros. The hooligans, around 100 people on 50 motorbikes arrived at Giannakopoulos’ home in Kifissia suburb …
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February 27, 2019
Social
Justice stepped in and investigates media reports according to which a needy old man was kicked out from a seniors’ home for being gay. The Seniors’ Home belongs to the Metropolis of Kalavryta of the hardcore Bishop Amvrosios. According to local media reports, the elderly man is suffering from serious …
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February 15, 2019
Economy
The Greek government and representatives of the country’s four systemic banks have finally agreed on the issue of debtors and the protection of the ‘first residence’. After weeks of negotiations, the government and the banks agreed on the framework that will protect the first residence of defaulting borrowers. The criteria …
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August 17, 2018
animals
Cat Pipis disappeared on 23. July when the deadly wildfire was raging in East Attica. His owners desperately looked for him but they had to leave the area and him behind in order to escape the flames and possible death. They didn’t give up hope, though. They put flyers all …
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February 12, 2018
Greece, Politics
Former Health Minister and now Vice president of conservative New Democracy, Adonis Georgiadis has said “they should hang me at Syntagma” if they find kickbacks from Novartis. For one more time, the ND-Vice whose name is involved in the Novartis case file sent to Palriament, was trying to prove he …
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February 3, 2018
Greece, Politics
Anarchists threw red paint and wrote slogans at the walls of the house of Mikis Theodorakis in the area of Acropolis on Saturday afternoon. The famous musician is the key note speaker of the Macedonia-protest rally, where hundreds of thousands of Greeks are expected to join their voices against a …
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December 12, 2017
Uncategorized
Greece’s “Christmas Home” is in Kozani, Western Macedonia. Thousands of lights are lit every evening for the pleasure of the home owners and the neighbors. The owners told kozanilife.gr, that the whole procedure of decoration that takes several days provides them so much joy that they pit aside any economic …
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October 5, 2016
Politics
Forty two years after Greek air-force transporter Nord Noratlas “Niki 4” was shot down by friendly fire in Cyprus, the remains of 16 commandos returned home. In an emotionally laden ceremony, the remains in coffins, draped with Greek and Cypriot flags and with a laurel wreath, were handed over to …
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June 1, 2013
Society
For a debt of 831 euro to the Public Water Company, a jobless father of two is about to lose his home. Without job for three years, the man was unable to pay utility bills. His debt to Public water company EYDAP reached 831 euro as he stopped paying since …
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March 30, 2013
Society
A Greek pensioner was very worried about his savings amid the bad example of Cyprus crisis and the Eurogroup decisions to grab people’s deposits. The man from Patras in western Peloponnese went recently to the bank and withdrew his savings: 25,000 euro. He stuffed the money cartons full of books …
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February 3, 2012
Society
A man entered a local bank branch in the city of Patras, western Peloponnese. He was holding the keys of his home, which he had bought with a loan mortgage of 300,000 euro. He neared the branch director and left on his desk two keys. when the director asked “What …
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January 23, 2012
Society
Several ambulance drivers parked the emergency vehicles outside the private residence of the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos in Thessaloniki on Monday morning. Fourteen ambulance vehicles are holding position outside the FinMin’s home, while six others work with security personnel for the emergency cases in the city. Workers at the ambulance service complain …
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June 1, 2010
Politics
UPD 07/06/10 Akis Tsochatzopoulos appeared before the Trnasparency Committee of PASOK today. The Committee decided to propose the suspecion of the Tsochatzopoulos party membership. If PASOk – Ethics Committee takes a possitive decision it will be independantly of any justice’s decision. Ex-deputy and Minister, Tsochatzopoulos stated that he will go to justice …
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