March 7, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos ordered an investigation on the police actions during the Sunday’s protest rally for the train collision in Tempi. The Minister of Citizen Protection, Takis Theodorikakos, ordered an immediate investigation into the actions of police officers during the rally and protest march for the fatal …
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March 5, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
With five days delay, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologized for the train crash that claimed the lives of 57 people. His apology was not on an address to the nation but on a Facebook post where he usually makes a …weekly review. A kind of administrative wrap up to …
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February 20, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Firing tear gas and using their shields, riot police in Athens tried to push away protesting teachers outside the Music Hall where an event held by the Education ministry was held and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was to deliver a speech. Before the event began, a large number of teachers …
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February 8, 2023
Economy, FEATURED, Society
Greece’s General Federation of Consumers INKA has called for a boycott of certain food products as a protest reaction to the high food prices, especially milk. In an announcement published on Wednesday, INKA said that the boycott follows consumers’ demand. The boycott is for all diary products, domestic or imported, …
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December 31, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Vegans staged a protest at the central meat market Varvakeio in downtown Athens on Saturday afternoon as people were doing their last purchases for the New Year’s festive table. Dressed in black and holding banners against the slaughter of animals, the group f some 15 people chanted slogans “I want …
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November 18, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Anarchists of Ruvikonas threw leaflets and a few packages of spaghetti No 6 outside the house of the Minister of Development, Adonis Georgiadis in a north Athens suburb on Thursday evening. The symbolic protest move had a clear protest message against the cost of living and poverty as well as …
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October 16, 2022
Social, Society
Angry protesters defaced the shop of the 53-year-old rapist and pimp of a 12-year-old girl and set his business van on fire in the Athens district of Sepolia during a rally held on Saturday. Protesters wrote slogans and threw paint on the shop’s front. Minor scuffles erupted later with riot …
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August 31, 2022
FEATURED, Greece
The permanent representative of Greece in the NATO submitted a protest note to the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg early Wednesday afternoon. Reason for the protest was a tweet by the NATO Allied Land Command in which it congratulated Turkey for its 100. Anniversary of Independence. Note that the Command is …
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August 3, 2022
Social, Society
Women’s organizations and feminist groups marched in downtown Athens on Tuesday evening to protest femicide and gender-based violence, after three women were killed by their husbands or partner in Crete, Zakynthos and Athens in just 36 hours. 56-year old Georgia was stabbed to death by her husband in Rethymnon, Crete …
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June 19, 2022
Archeology, Culture
Greeks and Brits raised their voice and staged a protesters inside the British Museum hall where the Parthenon Marbles are displayed demanding for the return to Greece. The protesters unfurled banners and Greek flags. English author and honorary Greek citizen Victoria Hislop presented a cake with candles representing the 13 …
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April 21, 2022
Lifestyle, Society
Dozens of vegans gathered at Syntagma Square in downtown Athens to protest against the slaughter and consumption of lamb on Easter Sunday. Holding placards reading “I have pain” and “Slaughter is not love” the protesters lined up in rows at Syntagma Square to express their opposition to the long-standing Greek …
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April 14, 2022
environment, FEATURED
The drastic pruning of trees in downtown Athens in the month of April has triggered an outrage in the community and organizations dealing with environmental and animal and bird welfare issues. The unprecedented pruning took place in the middle of the spring and the time when birds are nesting and …
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April 4, 2022
Greece, Politics
Waving Russian and Greek flags and having the symbol “Z” on their cars, hundreds of demonstrators staged a motorcade in solidarity with Russia in the center of Athens on Sunday afternoon. Honking their horns and making insulting gestures, the pro-Russian demonstrators started at Syggrou-Fix metro station and drove by Syntagma …
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March 23, 2022
Uncategorized
Residents of Chania on the island of Crete took to the streets demanding proper behavior by foreign visitors including NATO forces and US Navy soldiers and their punishment. The protest protest took place after an incident on Sunday, where a group of drunken US sailors from the USS aircraft carrier …
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March 8, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Thousands of people marched to the Greek Parliament demanding the end of gender-based violence and sexism as well as the recognition of term “femicide” as legal term. The protesters marched through downtown Athens on the occasion of the International Women’s Day chanting slogans supporting women but also against the war …
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March 1, 2022
Society, Very Mix
With a clear message in support of Ukraine thousands of people gathered at syntagma Squate in downtown Athens on Tuesday evening. Holding banners reading “Not To War” and chanting “Stop Putin – Stop The War – We Want Peace!” members of the Ukrainian community but also Greeks, Georgians, but also …
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February 16, 2022
Economy
Ιn Patras and other cities and towns of Peloponnese, businessmen inf the food service sector turned off the light on Wednesday evening and marched with candles through the streets to protest the exorbitant electricity bills. Holding banned reading “Power is killing us” and shouting slogans, they marched with the support …
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February 14, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
A 30-year-old hotelier on the island of Rhodes started a hunger-strike outside the Public Power Company due to exorbitant electricity bills that she is not able to pay or to make an installement-settlement. Speaking to local newspaper rodiaki, the woman who has a small hotel in the center of the …
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February 9, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Angry producers of famous tsipouro in central Greece poured liters of the strong distilled spirit on the road and set it on fire. Together with dozens of farmers on tractors, the tsipouro producers occupied a part of the national Larissa-Kozani highway to protest government plans to change the name of …
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February 8, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Greek Foreign ministry sharply protested footage showing a Turkish band dancing to electronic music at the historical Greek Orthodox Monastery Sumela in northern Turkey. The Ecumenical Patriarch sent a complaint to Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy where he described the performance as “an …
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