November 18, 2014
Society
Greek riot police allegedly beat up a German student on Erasmus exchange program. The student,Nils, uploaded a picture of his blood covered face on his Facebook profile and described his horror experience with the police while in Athens on November 17th 2014. Reason for him beaten up by police? Standing …
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November 13, 2014
Society
Two students were injured Thursday morning when riot police forces moved to hinder protesting students from entering the Law University in downtown Athens. According to media and websites, police used teargas and violence. One student was injured in the head, the other has injuries in the head, the face and …
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October 24, 2014
Very Mix
A teacher in amok, students in shock. Ateacher in a high school class went out of control and started to cut his arms, from the wrist to the elbow, with a paper cutter in front of screaming children in the classroom. Amid students’ screams and cries, the teacher spread the …
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February 11, 2014
Society
Argyris Koumtzis, 18, is blind. His disability did not hinder him to achieve top marks in high school and win several prizes in mathematics and physics competitions. Argyris is also a champion in chess. The 18-year-old student could have a bright future in front of him, if it wasn’t for …
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November 5, 2013
Economy
In other Greek news: The Troikans Poul Thomsen (IMF) and Matthias Morse (EU) had to leave the building of the Greek Finance Ministry from a back door. Cleaning personnel on “mobility scheme” and Development Ministry personnel protesting the dismissal of their colleagues had blocked the main entrance of the ministry …
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October 29, 2013
Society
The argument is not new. It was brought up by Peter Matjašic, president of the European Youth Forum last July, when European leaders were deciding on how to spend the money and what were the priorities of the next EU budget for 2014-2020. Peter Matjašic argued that the EU spent …
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July 8, 2013
Society
Riot police fired tear gas in Athens university when students and administrative personnel attempted to disturb a meetings of professors discussing cuts in education and lay-offs. Greek media report that a group of students invaded the building and that some of the board members called the police. Outside the university at Panepistimiou …
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June 11, 2013
Very Mix
The day does not stop impressing me. After the crowd funded orbiting space telescope, another great news confirms that Greeks never dry out of innovative ideas. Two students of Electrical Engineering invented the ultimate Greek Frappe mixing machine. Water, coffee, milk and sugar, they all land in the one-portion cup …
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May 7, 2013
Economy
A group of chanting students protested IMF head Christine Lagarde, while she was delivering a speech on the European debt crisis. Lagarde was answering pre-approved questions of students at the University of Amsterdam, when protesters started to chant anti-austerity and anti-IMF slogans, criticizing the policies of International Monetary Fund. Lagarde …
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March 28, 2013
Society
More than 4,000 students protested outside the Parliament on Thursday as Greek lawmakers voted for “Athena plan” that will merge or even close down more than 300 university and technical college faculties and departments. The mergers are imposed by Greece’s international lenders, the EU-IMF-ECB Troika, in an effort to cut public …
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March 6, 2013
Economy, Politics, Uncategorized
Students took to the streets of downtown Athens on Wednesday to protest the so-called education ‘reforms’ that will shut down universities and technical colleges in the name of Troika-imposed austerity. The controversial plan carrying the euphemistic title “Athena” , the ancient Greek Goddess of wisdom, foresees the merger and shutting down of …
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March 1, 2013
Society
Two students died and another three are hospitalized in critical condition due to fumes from makeshift brazier. According to Greek media, all five were found at the home they were renting by another student who had come to visit them on Thursday afternoon. As the students were not answering she …
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February 21, 2013
Very Mix
The representatives of Greece’s lenders, that is the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank, the so-called “Troika” come and go in Athens in regular intervals for the last three years. The word ‘Troika’ is in everybody’s lips like a junk candy. Greeks hear it some …
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December 6, 2012
Society
Clashes sparked between school-, universty-students and riot police around Omonia square in downtown Athens during the protest rally to commemorate the assasination of teenager boy Alexis Grigoropoulos, 15, on 6. December 2008. It looks as if the clashes started when somebody hurled a petrol bomb against the riot police. However, the molotov cocktail …
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November 15, 2012
Society
Fights erupted between members of PASOK affiliated students’ union and people wearing hoods during the celebrations of the 39th anniversary of Polytechnic University Uprising in 1973. Greek media report that the students’ group was attacked by a 15-member group wearing hoods and helmets. The hoodies reportedly attacked the students with batons, …
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October 29, 2012
Politics
The prime minister who took Greece to IMF had an unpleasant surprise in Berlin. While he was enjoying dinner in a restaurant in Berlin, a group of Greek students stormed in and started to verbally attack him. “Shame on you!”, “You ridiculed the country!”, “You eat with people’s money!”, “Go, …
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March 24, 2012
Politics, Society
The students’ parade concluded in an atmosphere of strong discontent about the unprecedented draconian security measures that did not allow parents to watch their children paying a homage to the heroes of Greek Revolution of 1821. The sudents marched in front of Education Minister in an “sterile” environment as spectators were banned for …
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November 16, 2011
Society
I do remember very well this Saturday morning I went alone to Athens downtown, on November 17, 1973. The night before an army tank had violently crashed down the main steel gate of the Polytechnic University campus bringing down the people clinging on it. I was a teenager then and had no …
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November 15, 2011
Very Mix
That was a real shock for students and teachers, this morning in Athens when an 18-year-old run amok swinging a … Ninja-style sword. The teenager wounded slightly the deputy director and a guard of the school who were taken to the hospital. Eyewitnesses report of unbelievable scenes that occurred in the …
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October 9, 2011
Politics, Society
Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’ had an unexpected surprise for Greece’s Interior Minister Xaris Kastanidis on Friday night in Thessaloniki. Instead of enjoying a movie romance with a pop corn special, Kastanidis had to hear the protests of students who not only raised a banner and chanted anti-government slogans, but …
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