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Greeks protest ahead of parliamentary vote on new job cuts
Greek workers march in protest during a day of general strike in Athens on July 16, 2013.
Tens of thousands of Greek public sector workers have staged a new day of protest ahead of a parliamentary vote that would facilitate the layoff of thousands of workers.
The Wednesday protest gathered municipal workers and mayors in Athens just before lawmakers sit to vote a bill that will put 4,200 civil servants...
Greek civil service workers go on strike over massive layoffs
Protesters attend a demonstration in Athens, Greece, July 8, 2013.
Tens of thousands of Greek municipal workers have staged a strike to protest against the massive public sector layoffs enacted by the government in order to secure promised loans.
Greek civil servants including policemen and schoolteachers took to the streets outside the Administrative Reform Ministry in Athens on Monday, as the government...
Greek lawmakers introduce new Anti-Racism Bill
We have stated and repeated numerous times this fact: the only racism that exists right now in the country is racism against Greeks. The system’s parties tripped over one another for many days, trying to see who will propose the strictest anti-racism bill. The real agenda is to further entrench delinquency and exacerbate the goal of making Greeks a minority in our own country. The response to this...
The Real Disgrace Of Athens: Homeless Epidemic Given No Attention
The Mayor of Athens referred to Golden Dawn as the “embarrassment” of Greece, yet the Mayor goes back to being absent when it’s time to address serious issues such as homelessness.
Because of the memorandum, Greece now is going through its worst period in modern history. Unemployment is through the roof, millions are impoverished, and yet new taxes are being levied by the system on those “lucky”...
Greece's unemployment rate hits 26.4%
People wait outside an unemployment bureau in the Greek capital, Athens.
Official figures show that the unemployment rate in Greece rose above 26 percent in December 2012, as the country embarks on its sixth year of recession.
The Greek statistics office ELSTAT announced on Thursday that the unemployment rate hit 26.4 percent in December, which is five percent more than the data registered in 2011.
The...
Greeks kick off new wave of strikes against austerity measures
People walking by closed shops in Athens during the 24-hours general strike.
Greeks have kicked off a new wave of strikes to protest against fresh austerity measures due to be presented by the government to the parliament.
The work stoppage began on Monday as the metro in the capital Athens was shut and taxi drivers halted services.
There was also a media blackout on Monday as journalists stopped working...
Greeks angered by Christ blasphemous theatre play
Tensions have risen in the Greek capital city of Athens over a blasphemous American play which portrays Jesus Christ as homosexual.
Late on Friday, police briefly arrested more than 30 people outside an Athens theatre, where the play Corpus Christi was staged, who were calling on authorities to ban the show.
Also on Thursday, the Greece’s nationalist Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) Party had sent several...
Police, pensioners clash over austerity measures in Athens
Greek pensioners shout slogans while marching in central Athens to protest the new austerity cuts on October 8, 2012.
Greek police in the capital city of Athens have clashed with pensioners protesting against the government’s new round of austerity measures.
On Monday, hundreds of Greek pensioners staged a rally outside the office of the European Union (EU) in Athens where police officers used batons...
Greeks take to streets in light of new budget cuts
Thousands have taken to the streets throughout Greece to protest the drastic budget cuts proposed by the government.
In Athens some 2,000 pensioners marched through the city to protest newly introduced pension cuts.
It was announced that those who earn more than 1,000 euros a month will have 10 percent of their pensions axed. This is despite a 25 per cent cut over the last two years.
“They have...
Greek jobless rate record high in May
Jobless Greeks line up outside an unemployment bureau in Athens
Unemployment rate in crisis-struck Greece hit an all-time high of 23.1 percent in May as the country struggles through a fifth year in recession, says the national statistics agency.
New data, released by Elstat on Thursday, showed that 1.15 million people were out of work in Greece, compared with 3.82 million, who had jobs.
The jobless...
Subway project reveals ancient thousand-year-old road in Greece
Subway project reveals ancient thousand-year-old road in Greece.
Archaeologists discovered a road built from marble by Romans there 2 thousand years ago. Archeologists have found, in the second largest city of Greece, 70 meters of part of an ancient road built by the Romans, which was the main access road into the city for 2000 years.
The road was discovered during excavations for the new metro system...
Around 13,000 Greek people are homeless in Athens
A homeless man prepares to sleep on the floor of a sports center in Athens on January 30, 2012.
A new report says around 13,000 Greek people are homeless in the capital Athens and the number of the poor in the recession-hit country is on the rise.
The report by the charity organization, Praksis, which was published on Thursday says in the Greek capital of over four million, around 11,500 Greeks are...
Greek leftist leader rules out Austerity Measures
Greece’s leader of the leftist SYRIZA coalition, Alexis Tsipras
Greece’s left-wing coalition leader has ruled out austerity measures, receiving a mandate to form a new government as elections produced a stalemate in parliament.
Greece’s leader of the leftist SYRIZA coalition, Alexis Tsipras, has ruled out budget-cutting austerity measures, opting to meet President Karolos Papaoulias in talks...
Greek pensioners take to streets over cuts
Greek pensioners protesting in Athens.
In Greece, angry pensioners have once again taken to the streets in the capital Athens to protest against the government’s tough spending cuts.
The pensioners gathered to express opposition with lawmakers’ decision to slash another 325 million euros in wages, pensions, and jobs, as demanded by the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in order...
Police clash with students in Athens
Riot police secure the US Embassy in Athens, November 17, 2011.
Greek security forces have clashed with protesters who were marching on the US embassy in Athens to mark the anniversary of a bloody 1973 student uprising which helped topple a US-backed army dictatorship in Greece.
The Thursday demonstration was swelled in numbers as many joined the rally to protest against unpopular austerity measures,...