parades
Education
Education Minister Announces Best Students Will Again be Chosen as Parade Flag-Bearers
Greek Minister of Education Niki Kerameus announced on Thursday that the best student in each school across the nation will be chosen as flag-bearer from now on during Greece's student parades, which are a part of major national celebrations.
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events
Athens City Center to Have Restricted Vehicle Access for Oxi Day Parades; National Roadway Network Detours Over Weekend
This Friday vehicles will not be able to enter many roads around the city center of Athens as the capital will be closed off for the annual Oxi Day parades, which commemorates Greece's former military general and Prime Minister...
Greece
National Parades Sabotaged By Protesters
Greeks protesting austerity measures sabotaged the national school student parades in many areas of Greece.
In Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, the demonstrators heckled President Karolos Papoulias and other attending officials, calling them traitor. Some anarchists spat at retired military officers.
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