Society

Police forces on the morning of Aug. 21 poured into the National Technical University of Athens, closing off streets during the 6:25 a.m. raid. The police entered the university grounds without provocation and it is not yet known if the...

From the 1st of January 2014, patients admitted to a hospital of the National Healthcare System (ESY), will have to pass first from the accounting office to pay a ticket of 25 euros, according to the new implementing law...

The person in charge of a large super market in the center of Athens,  talked to the Greek newspaper Kathimerini about the increase in the number of petty thefts that take place in super markets due to the financial...

This is the photograph, entitled I am a Greek, that has gone viral. It has already been posted on major sites abroad and has become one of the biggest topics ever since it was posted. This photograph changes the image...

More and more Greek families are relying on their elderly relatives'  pensions. With soaring unemployment and reduced salaries and allowances, pensions of a few hundred euros retirees receive every month can make the difference to the family budget. In some...

Within the framework of a nuclear weapons awareness effort, the Peace Boat docked in Limassol on August 15. According to the Limassol Municipality announcement, the boat would remain for the whole day while a passengers’ delegation went to discuss nuclear...

Hundreds of Turkish tourists are going to celebrate the end of this year’s Ramadan in Thessaloniki and Halkidiki. The tourists from Turkey will visit Northern Greece by car, bus and air. Ramadan celebration ended on August 7 followed by...

A woman whose identity was unknown was killed and dismembered after she was run over by a passing passenger train near Thessaloniki Train Station early in the morning of Aug. 8, authorities said. The tragic accident happened at 12:50 after...

Just a few minutes after the announcement of the Hellenic Statistical Authority concerning the new record jobless rate of 27.6 percent in Greece for May, the Financial Times published an article entitled Unemployment in Greece Continues to Gallop detailing...

With Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras touting a "success story" for his government, and as he was about to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House on Aug. 8, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) reported unemployment has...

“Breastfeeding is health”. With this slogan young mothers with the support of the PanHellenic Network of Voluntary Groups of Support of Breastfeeding and Motherhood and the IBFAN Greece, held a public breastfeeding in Santorini on August 6. The young mothers...

The local community of Mytilene, capital of the island of Lesbos in the North Aegean, is shocked after the news of the suicide of a 20-year-old man, according to lesvosnews.gr. The young man was found dead inside the cemetery yard...

The number of the recorded unemployed in Cyprus rose in July and reached 48,112 people (31.7 percent) compared to 47,594 in June 2013, according to data released by the Statistical Service of Cyprus on August 5. The young unemployed under...

On August 5, at 7.30 in the morning, a police operation evacuated three squats in Patras; the Maragopoulio squat, the Parartima squat and the squat at a building of the Technical University. During the operation, the police arrested five people...

The Minister of Culture, Panos Panagiotopoulos, provoked the audience’s strong disapproval during his welcoming speech at the opening event of the 23rd World Congress of Philosophy on the topic, Philosophy as research and lifestyle. When Panagiotopoulos said, "Greeks can live...