Society

An increase of 25 percent was announced for urban transport tickets, which will be implemented from October. The extension that was given last March will expire in October and the Troika demands an increase in tickets, as it does not...

Destined to lose, Greek high school teachers nonetheless won the first round of a seemingly fruitless battle to convince the government to reverse course on a plan to transfer or fire scores of thousands of public workers by staying...

Greek Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who ordered the firing of thousands of public workers before their positions could be reviewed as he promised, found himself heckled and blocked from getting into his office on Sept. 16 during an...

Shipping heiress Athina Onassis was pretty in a pink silk dress as she attended the wedding of her half-sister Sandrine Roussel. The wedding of Sandrine Roussel took place at the small village of Villeny, close to the Roussel's Bonneville...

A bill to let some Greek convicts serve out the rest of their sentences at home, under electronic surveillance, has been submitted to the Parliament as a way to relieve overcrowding in prisons. The bill provides the sentence to be...

Elementary school teachers support the protests, as they decided to go on a 48-hour strike on September 18 and 19. The decision was taken after a marathon meeting held by the local teachers’ unions with the Greek Federation of...

More bad news for the Greek government's plan to reduce the jobless rate as the country's statistical agency ELSTAT said it set yet another record in June, hitting 27.9 percent amid predictions it could eventually top 30 percent. It's even...

Undaunted by the removal of graffiti which adorns many buildings in Athens, street artists promptly spray-painted the walls again almost the moment their work was removed and vowed to continue taking over the city. City officials last month went on...

On September 10, the Health Ministry and the industry representatives signed an agreement for distributing free medicine to the poor and uninsured, in order to create a network of free medicine distributors, which will operate along similar lines to...

There was tension outside the Parliament when the employees of the mining and metallurgical company LARKO, who were having a protest rally, saw New Democracy MP Prokopis Pavlopoulos. The protesters started shouting “thieves, thieves” and some of them threw bottles...

Employees of the mining and metallurgical company LARKO and the administrative staff of the Universities held simultaneous rallies and protests against the government plans concerning the closure of Greece’s defense industries LARKO, EAS and ELVO and against the plans...

Body Bijou founder, thirteen year old Linda Manziaris combined her passion for jewelry design and a desire to help vulnerable young women to create Body Bijou, an online jewelry store with a mission to make a difference. Body Bijou donates...

Next week will be a week of strike action, as the Public Servant’s Union (ADEDY) is proceeding to escalation of protests with “prolonged, multiform, conflictual, fighting demonstrations against the policy of suspensions and dismissals,” after the decision of the...

If you take into account pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions, a record unemployment rate, rising suicides, 20 percent of the population in poverty, and most of the country's young people wanting to flee, Greeks are relatively happy. That's according...

A sensational open letter sent by a 19-year old man to Antonis Samaras, is sweeping the Internet. The young man wrote the letter on the occasion of the Prime Minister’s speech at the TIF. As referred in the letter, which...