Crisis

The Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand and the Department of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney have organized a conference  -"Crisis, Criticism and Critique in Contemporary Greek studies." The profound impact of the crisis on...

In Greece, Easter is as big as the Christmas holiday in the UK or the USA. It's the biggest festival of the year, a major religious celebration characterized by fasting, church-going and big family meals in the town. However, this...

Over the weekend, the Greek parliament voted to accept Europe’s latest demands for spending cuts and tax rises and other reforms and retrenchments. The aim was to make it marginally less implausible that Greece will pay back the hundreds...

As Greece's debt crisis mounted and the country looked for austerity measures, its unwieldy and often corruption-riddled universal health care system became a prime target, with spending cut 13%. But that has had dire consequences, the New York Times reports. Public...

Eve Geroulis, a Greek-American educator and marketing strategist spoke at the TedxAcademy event in Athens with the slogan “Step Forward”.  Geroulis' speech stressed the themes of hope and imagination, how both are interconnected and how they can make us conquer fear -especially...

According to Greek blogs Italian anarchists have arrived in Igoumenitsa port in western Greece and intend to arrive in Athens and Thessaloniki in order to join their Greek comrades’ fight against the government. Italian militants are members of the self-styled...

  A day before "the mother of all strikes" and with thousands of riot police being rushed to Athens George Papandreou in a desperate bid to give the  impression that there is a united front before the talks with his EU counterparts,...

Greece is falling into a deeper dismay after more and more of its Eurozone partners are expressing their certainty over the former’s sovereign default. After the revelation of Germany having a “Plan B” in case of Greece’s default, the representative...

5kkiEfO9rQE An angry crowd trapped a member of the parliament in Lamia, a city in central Greece. Nikos Tsionis was in the area visiting the local office of his party, PASOK. Locals realized his presence and started protesting....

7hcOYs659uQ Greece, why did we destroy everything at Syntagma? The stairs, the benches, the camps that people had created protesting against a government that was voted by the people and then couldn't live up to its promises....