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Olympic Stadium OAKA shut down due to static problems

September 30, 2023 FEATURED, Sports 4

All activities at the Olympic Stadium and the Velodrome at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (OAKA) have been suspended since Friday night due to safety reasons. According to a statement issued by the stadium management, suspended have been also all activities at the central circulation spine for the complex …

Volunteer firefighter on Rhodes dies of respiratory collapse

August 2, 2023 FEATURED, Society, Very Mix 1

A volunteer firefighter on the island of Rhodes died in the local hospital he sought after suffering from severe respiratory problems. His relatives urge for exact determination of the causes of his death claiming his respiratory system suffered from his extensive exposure to wildfire smoke for 12 consecutive days. The …

10 million Greek voters, 39K polling stations for European, regional and local elections

May 26, 2019 Greece Comments Off on 10 million Greek voters, 39K polling stations for European, regional and local elections

Polling stations for European, regional and local elections opened at 7 o’ clock Sunday for the 9,922,294 registered voters. 528,000 Greeks will vote for the first time. Among them are , 106,760 17-year-olds who will vote following a recent law amendment that lowered the voting age. 39,063 polling stations have …

Plea for Corfu: British Expat invites Tsipras to visit the “Jewel” island

August 16, 2018 Tourism 6

Garbage piles at road sides, potholes on main roads, broken traffic lights and pavements or no street lights at all are just some but very important problems on the island of Corfu, the Jewel of the Ionian Sea. Exhausted by the miserable infrastructure, the negligence and indifference by the local …

Greek consumers face problems in payments with plastic money or ATM withdrawals

December 24, 2017 Economy 1

Greeks and tourists experienced a problem over the pre-Christmas days: the system for payments with debits and credit cards or withdraw money form the ATM seems to have been blocked due to the high demand The problem started a few days ago reaching its peak on Saturday and Sunday, December …

UPD Hundreds stranded on Athens-Lamia Highway due to snow

December 22, 2017 weather 1

Professional truck drivers and private motorists, families with children on their way to Christmas holidays, stranded for several hours on Athens-Lamia Highway due to the snow fall. Media report of a 14-km long queues from the 118th to the 132th km on the lanes to Lamia, at the height of …

Greek police: 3% of policemen are ‘unfit’ to carry a weapon

March 22, 2017 Greece 4

Shocking data about the ability of Greece’s police. Hundreds of policemen have not undergone checks by special “weapons committees” and from those who have a 3 percent is not capable to carry a weapon. According to a report by daily Eleftheros Typos, there are only two special committees operating in …

Greek Bank Union: “Tuesday’s Liquidity will determine withdrawals cap”, dismisses FT “30% deposits haircut”

July 4, 2015 Economy 1

Sunday… Monday… Tuesday… Wednesday… Four very crucial days that will determine whether the average Greek will still be able to withdraw a couple of euro banknotes from the ATMs, whether the pensioner will be able to get hold of the whole of his July pension. Whether the Greek banks will …

Kefalonia: more than 1,000 aftershocks >2R as number of homeless increases

February 5, 2014 Earthquake, Very Mix Comments Off on Kefalonia: more than 1,000 aftershocks >2R as number of homeless increases

An aftershock measuring 4.2R rocked the island of Kefalonia on Tuesday evening as thousands of residents were preparing to spend the night in tents, cars and buses. According to Greek media, 5,000 people are estimated to have to spend the days and nights away from homes as they were damaged …

Greek growth: depressed dogs chasing their tails cannot start a revolution

October 22, 2013 Editor 9

The clock shows two in the afternoon. I have been thinking the whole morning what news I should write about. Should I start with the upcoming cuts in pensions of several professional groups? With the hikes in patents’ cash participation in prescription medicine, maybe? As I was sipping in my …

Why Noah’s Ark would never have been built in Greece

July 2, 2013 Very Mix 2

You think, Noah would have been able to build the famous Ark in case he was living in Greece? That would be a very big #FAIL. The human-animal-rescue project would be have been able to conclude for three simple reasons: 1) the notorious Greek bureaucracy 2) the slowness of the Greek public sector …

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