February 27, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
They were all there: parents and spouses and children of the 57 people who found a tragic death in the train crash in Tempi on February 28, 2023. One year later, with tears in their eyes and trembling voices, the mourning families held a press conference about the government’s actions …
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November 21, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Τhe National Observatory of Athens is at risk to lose its independence and be excluded from the national and international network of research centers. Mid-November the conservative government of New Democracy decided to move the NOA to the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection (MCCCP), in order to support its specific …
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February 10, 2020
animals, FEATURED
The Greek Animal Welfare and Environment Protection Federation, an umbrella for 67 animal welfare organizations across the country has started a petition urging Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the need of a “national strategy” against animal abuse. “We can no longer tolerate the animals abuse that are not isolated incidents,” …
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July 13, 2019
animals
The brutal killing of a fish that was nearing the shore to lay its eggs. A mob of swimmers in Halkida threw stones at the big fish before they managed to catch it and kill it with their own hands. All these happened in front of the eyes of members …
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February 20, 2019
Archeology
Investment at any price? A wall of hotels around Acropolis? Construction of a 10-story hotel at the foot of the Acropolis Hill is springing high, construction for a 9-story one is to start soon. Locals protest. residents and civic societies are protesting the construction of a 10-story hotel building in …
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October 22, 2018
Economy
In a meeting with Eurogroup spokesperson Luis Rego, a group of campaigners including Positive Money Europe handed a petition to euro zone finance ministers demanding that Greece gets back the profits made off of its debt. Luis Rego promised the campaigners to bring the issue to the attention of EG …
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October 19, 2018
Economy
Campaigners from pressure groups Positive Money Europe, WeMove.EU and Eurodad will hand in a petition to the Eurogroup as it meets at 15h00 CEST on Friday demanding Greek debt profits are fully returned from the European Central Bank. According to pressure groups investigation, €8 billion are missing from the Eurogroup …
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October 15, 2018
Social
The Municipality of Athens is destroying one of the most colorful areas in the historical center of the Greek capital. The 300 artists who sell their homemade handicraft in the area of Thissio should be removed and relocated outside three metro stations in Keramikos and Victoria squares quite far from …
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July 23, 2018
World
The European Commission has allowed a group to launch a petition calling for permanent EU citizenship after Brexit. The proposed petition on “Permanent European Union Citizenship” is to be registered on July 23 as a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), the Commission announced. “The main objective of the proposed initiative is …
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December 31, 2017
Turkey-GR
The Greek government has filed a petition to annul the decision to grant political asylum to one of the 8 Turkish soldiers who fled with a helicopter to Greece one day after the failed coup on 15. July 2016. “Following the standing position in relation to the 8 Turkish soldiers, …
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March 8, 2017
Politics, World
International Women’s Day? A member of the the European Parliament, Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke said that women should earn less because they “are weaker, smaller and less intelligent”! On another occasion, the European (?) Korwin-Mikke had made the Nazi salute in the EP chamber. Let’s have the EP send this …
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February 23, 2017
Economy
The European Central Bank has commissioned a legal opinion on the legality of the imposition of capital controls in Greece end June 2015. But ECB chief, Mario Draghi refuses to make the findings public. Former Greek finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and French Socialist Party candidate for the Presidency Benoît Hamon …
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February 1, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
It’s official. Greece submitted a request to the Nobel committee asking the nomination of Greek islanders who have helped Syrian and other refugees for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016. The relevant campaign was organized by international campaign by grassroots group Avaaz that has collected more than 638,000 signatures online asking …
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January 4, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
More than 800,000 refugees and migrants passed through the Greek islands of the Eastern Aegean Sea on their way to Europe for a better future. While local authorities and the central government were too slow to react to the challenge of thousands of people stranded, the residents of the islands …
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July 6, 2015
Very Mix
European Parliament President Martin Schulz angered a lot of Greeks – if not all – with this unprecedented statements of blatant intervention into the political affairs of a sovereign country and of out of control scaremongering to Greek voters, before, during and after the Referendum. Now, some people got really …
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May 5, 2014
Tourism
Endless coastline, natural beauty, free beaches, untouched landscape. The number one tourist attraction in Greece is soon to be no more. A legislation foreseeing the development and privatization of the Greek coastline will not only proceed to large scale environmental destruction; it will block free access to kilometer-long beaches as …
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January 14, 2014
Very Mix
More than one thousand of chemical agents, Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, are ready to be destroyed in international waters international waters in the Mediterranean Sea between Greece, Malta and Italy. The complex international process of decommissioning the hazardous chemical weapons sarin, mustard gas and sulphur organized by the Organization for …
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November 23, 2013
animals
UPDATE: 76,000 signatures were collected until December 6th 2013. Animal lovers around the world… YOU ROCK! On November 14, municipality workers in Patras, Greece, mashed a stray dog in a garbage truck, in front of children and their parents of a nearby school. Despite the loud protests and screams of …
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May 28, 2013
Economy, Politics
Not really. Yiannis Stournaras, Greece’s finance minister was speaking at the Parliament. He spoke and spoke … words and number were shot from his mouth and eventually he got thirsty. Much to his surprised, the parliament staff had not put a glass of water in front of the eloquent speaker. …
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May 17, 2013
Very Mix
Ops! Activists of Real Democracy Now in Edinburgh are collecting signatures to hinder the appearance of former Greek prime minister George Papandreou at TEDGlobal 2013 conference scheduled for beginning of upcoming June in the Scottish capital. Sharply criticizing TED for inviting the ex Greek premier as a speaker, RDN stresses …
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