Society

Greek citizens tend to feel negative about the future within the European Union (EU), according to a nationwide survey presented by the University of Athens, conducted within a series of actions organized by the university aiming at supporting students...

Busting another myth about Greeks - apparently they aren't as lazy as the German say - the Parish-based Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has reported that they worked 2,032 hours a year in 2011, considerably higher than...

The Hellenic Society for the Study of Human Sexuality (EMAS) and the Andrology Institute of Athens conducted a research, according to which the financial crisis has affected Greeks’ personal and sexual life and has increased incidences of violence against...

In the last years, the number of Greeks that commit suicide has risen dramatically. The suicide rate in Greece increased by 26.7 percent in 2011 compared to 2010. The number of suicides reported in 2011 is the highest in...

Greece's crushing economic crisis, which has created record unemployment and hardship, is helping out moms who don't want their adult children straying too far from home. Unable to make it on their own, many of the country's young, with...

The group Real Democracy Now-Edinburg has launched the collection of signatures through the Internet, demanding the removal of former Greek prime minister George Papandreou from the speakers list at the TEDGlobal conference. Papandreou, who resigned over Greece's fall into near-bankruptcy...

Greek teachers who had been ordered not to strike on the first day of university entrance exams, showed up to monitor the tests on May 17, giving up their plans to protest requirements for extra work without pay. They had...

The Mayor of Thessaloniki Yiannis Boutaris talked in an interview in the radio station Palmos 96.5 and said he supports the Gay Parade in Thessaloniki but not the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that has 18 seats in Parliament. “I have...

EU Structural Funds can finance investments in social housing for marginalized population groups, services for homeless people, deinstitutionalization and reintegration programs, as László Andor Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion pointed out to MEP Konstantinos Poupakis. Andor pointed out...

In June 2009, 24-year-old Glen Daly was killed during his holidays in Crete, Greece. The police believed Glen had lost control of his moped and slid under a lorry that Stefanis Konstantinou was driving. However, his mother, Dorothy Daly,...

Sikinos, a small island in the Cyclades, has every reason to be proud of its two priests. Father Spyridon Vourlakos, served at the age of 16 at the Hellenic Navy and worked as a cook on ships to help...

The tragic story took place in a village near Thessaloniki where the family lives. The 36-year-old father confessed that he had been sexually abusing his 16-year-old daughter for many years. The man who is an Albanian immigrant, was arrested...

On May 17, an entertainment event will take place at Larisa central square, aiming to help those in need. Poverty has many faces and more and more people are facing problems. Those people are next to us and need...

The latest research by Nielsen Consumer Confidence has shown that Greeks are particularly pessimistic and worried about their employment security, as well as the financial situation in general. Greece is the second most pessimistic country in the world, following Portugal,...

The humanitarian work of the Ark of the World has crossed the borders of Athens. Father Antonios, the soul of the effort, is in the border municipality of Pogoni, Ioannina, where he finalized an agreement with city officials for...