November 7, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
Greece is set to introduce a new bill in Parliament imposing stricter penalties for businesses supplying alcohol, electronic cigarettes, and vaping devices to minors in the government’s efforts to revamp alcohol laws in Greece. In a joined decision by the ministries of Citizen Protection, Justice and Health it has been …
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September 25, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
Violent incidents among teenagers have gone out of control in recent days with Greece’s authorities apparently unable to find solutions to a social problem that is growing day by day. Whether inside or outside the school, incidents of brutal violence seem are getting more frequent, the severity of conflicts between …
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August 13, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greek police arrested two teenager boys, aged 15 and 16, for staring a fire in low vegetation area in the area of Terpsithea in Ano Glyfada, south-eastern Athens, on Monday afternoon. The high school students had fired fireworks “for fun” as they confessed to police. However, the fun for the …
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January 15, 2024
Greece, Politics
I did not know that Jellies CBD, that is jelly with cannabis oil known as cannabis gummy, are sold without age restrictions at the kiosks in Greece and apparently Greek health authorities didn’t know that either or had not regulated accordingly to protect children. Cannabis gummy will no longer be …
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June 15, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
A three-judge Juvenile Court in Athens convicted eight teenager boys over the gang-rape of a 15-year-old schoolmate in Ilion suburb of western Athens in December 2022. The court acquitted the four girls who were tried with their peers and who had allegedly witnessed the abuse. In a closed-door session, the …
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February 23, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Eighteen school students have been rushed to hospitals in the city of Patras, western Peloponnese, in the past few days after drinking adulterated alcohol, local authorities have announced. Doctors informed the police about the incidents who in turn notified the local prosecutor. No details were provided about the exact content …
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July 18, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
An unbelievable incident took place on the Cyclades island of Paros, when six teenagers got infected with coronavirus and there was no place to be accommodated and isolated. They had to spend 16 hours in the parking lot of the parking place of the Health Center, until the state broadcaster …
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July 1, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Government officials have said they are studying options to expand Greece’s vaccine program to teenagers 15-17 years old once the receive the green light by health experts. Greece will start vaccinating teenagers once it gets the go-ahead from experts, a government spokesperson said on Thursday, after Athens earlier this week …
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June 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Inoculating children aged 12-15 against Covid-19 is still under consideration by the National Vaccinations Committee, its head professor Maria Theodoridou said on Monday. The committee’s final decision could concern high-risk children as opposed to all of them, she elaborated. Although not mandatory, vaccination will require parental consent, she added. Citing …
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April 26, 2021
Social, Society
Greek police arrested a woman suspected to have poured petroleum over four teenager girls playing below her balcony for “making noise.” Two of the victims are hospitalized. The incident took place on Sunday night in the municipality of Vyronas in Athens. The woman initially claimed that it was her cat …
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February 15, 2021
Social
Greece has launched a National Register for children and teenagers with cancer ailments. The registration of patients is mandatory and is done by the doctor presiding over the case, via the e-prescription system. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday met two children that have recovered from cancer, Nefeli and Philippos, …
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January 24, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Deputy Education Minister Zeta Makri announced on Sunday that fines will be imposed on students who sit in squares with their friends after class and do not return home on time. The Deputy Minister, in fact, threatened the students as the reopening of Gymnaisums and Lyceums is scheduled on February …
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December 28, 2020
FEATURED, Social
A gang of minors has been terrorizing and bulling a transgender person with the tolerance of the parents and the small community of Skala Sykamias on the island of Lesvos. The gang consisting of minors among them also 12- and 13-year-old boys and girls has broken into Dimitra’s house several …
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November 10, 2020
Very Mix
A 15-year-old girl, her 17-year-old friend and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested for the brutal murder of a 50-year-old woman, the mother of the girl. The victim was found by police in her home with her hands and feet bound in her home in Agia Varvara, western Athens on …
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February 26, 2019
Social
There is an increase in the number of cases involving physical and sexual harassment of minors recorded in Greece, as well as the number of such cases reported to authorities, as both parents and children are better informed and more aware of these issues. It is estimated that one in …
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August 7, 2018
Tourism
Claims by young British tourists that they were massively poisoned by methanol-laced alcohol and were hospitalized are “fake news” authorities on the island of Zakynthos (Zante) told Greek media on Monday. Although aware of some problems with tourism on the island, locals speak of defamation attempts. “This is a lie, …
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May 23, 2018
Uncategorized
At a particularly hard moment for the 3,150 unaccompanied children in Greece, with more than 2,300 of them living under precarious conditions – in detention, camps or even on the street and many of the accommodation facilities being shut down – the suggestion of alternative solutions is of crucial importance. …
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April 28, 2017
Society, Very Mix
Miserable present, no future. The brain drain from Greece takes distributing dimensions as even teenagers want to leave the country. For studies or for professional development. An entire generation of teenagers, regardless of their economic status and possibilities, want to leave Greece and move abroad. These plans have usually the …
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March 24, 2011
Culture
Half of the 28 Children and Teenagers Public Libraries across Greece are threatened to close down due to lack of funding by the Ministry of Education. President of Children’s and Adolescents’ Libraries Institution, Stathis Potamitis, rang the alarm bell during a press conference on Wednesday, stressing that there is an immediate fund …
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