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14/11/2014

Riot police attack students outside Athens Polytechnic

Riot police attack students outside Athens Polytechnic

Video footage shows riot squad officers – who reportedly had given no prior warning to the students to disperse – chasing protesters, hitting them indiscriminately with batons, and spraying gas into a crowd of people they had cornered around the university entrance

13/11/2014

Unemployment falls slightly in August to 25.9%

Unemployment falls slightly in August to 25.9%

Figures show that about 3.5 million people are working to support more than 4.5 million unemployed and economically inactive people

12/11/2014

'Why did you annoy them?' Coastguard officials acquitted of torture convictions

The prosecutor claimed that no torture could have taken place as there was no evidence that the coastguard officers had received training in torture methods

Calling for the sentences to be squashed, the prosecutor claimed that no torture could have taken place as there was no evidence that the coastguard officers had received training in torture methods

11/11/2014

Watch the Greek tourism videos that work

No gods, no myths, just Greece: watch the Greek tourism videos that work

No gods, no myths, just Greece (or Crete): Six new advertisements from Crete show how tourism videos should be made

10/11/2014

There are more Greeks like me

"I belong to this country ... I feel like a citizen of this country.”

New video launched to support campaign calling on the European Union and the Greek government to ensure that Greek citizenship is made available to children born and/or raised in Greece

05/11/2014

Not the gods again!

The national tourism agency EOT has launched a new promotional video for 2015. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Hackneyed, corny and stodgy, Greece's 2015 tourism promotional video makes plenty of references to the physical remains of the country’s classical past but deals little with its present, save for a couple of rustic scenes

04/11/2014

British man acquitted of murder of compatriot in Crete

Lawyers said little forensic evidence was recovered to try to identify who in the frantic nightclub melee wielded the knife that killed Tyrell Matthews-Burton

Myles Litchmore-Dunbar, who spent 16 months in pretrial custody, always protested his innocence, claiming he was trying to break up a fight involving multiple British tourists

29/10/2014

Greece suffers 'great leap backwards' in child poverty

In 2012, Greece had the highest rate of child poverty (40.5%) in 41 leading EU/OECD countries

Unicef says median Greek household incomes for families with children sank to 1998 levels in 2012 – the equivalent of a loss of 14 years of income progress – while the child poverty rate jumped 17.5 points, from 23% in 2008 to 40.5% in 2012

28/10/2014

This is why Greeks remember this day.

October 28th 1940 Front Page of The New York Times. The Pappas Post commemorates Greece's heroic and epic role during World War II.

24/10/2014

Officials brief MPs on German forced wartime loan

Coming up with an estimate of the value of the forced loan is one thing. Seeking repayment is another.

A special finance ministry working group has amassed 50,000 documents as part of its effort to calculate the present-dauy value of a loan Greece was forced to pay to its German occupiers during the second world war

23/10/2014

Urgent appeal for donations to help traffic accident victim (9)

Since the accident, caused by a member of the Greek Navy, the Maciorowski family has received no assistance from the state nor from the family of the motorcyclist, who was released on bail after surrendering himself to police

Family of David Maciorowski, badly injured in a 2012 hit-and-run, needs at least €20,000 to cover the cost of specialised operations that would allow him speak and feed himself again and lead a normal life

22/10/2014

Trial over 2012 torture of Egyptian bakery worker postponed again

Two years ago, Walid Taleb was chained up and tortured for 18 hours in a stable. He's still awaiting justice.

On 4 November 2012, Walid Taleb, then 29, was found beaten black and blue on a village street on Salamina. He had a ring and chain around his neck. He accused his employer, his son and two accomplices of chaining him up and torturing him for 18 hours in a stable

21/10/2014

A parent's worst nightmare on Kos

Eighteen-month old Loukas Spanos from the island of Kos died in an Athens hospital 14 hours after his mother noticed that he had a temperature. She wants people to know his story in the hope that no other parent on the island has to go through a similar nightmare

A mother believes the 'terrible standard of healthcare' on the island of Kos, where the hospital has been without a paediatrician for four years, cost her 18-month-son his life when he fell suddenly ill earlier this month

20/10/2014

Youth vote for Golden Dawn for racist/supremacist reasons, study finds

In the June 2012 elections, Golden Dawn was the second most popular party in the 18–34 age group. New research asks why.

Debunking myth that the swing to Golden Dawn is due to exclusively to the economic crisis, researchers at Athens Panteion University show that young voters agree with racist-supremicist position of the ne***zi party

17/10/2014

Countdown to free wifi nationwide begins

How many of you will be cancelling your internet subscription in anticipation of free wifi promised by PM Samaras?

'Today, I can promise that we will have in Greece free wireless wifi internet, in all of Greece, in a year.' That was Antonis Samaras in November 2013. Will he deliver?

17/10/2014

All Golden Dawn MPs should face criminal trial, prosecutor recommends

In relation to the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the prosecutor noted that the victim had been targeted and that Golden Dawn structures were mobilised for his murder. "They knew who he was."

Prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos says that 'a party that seeks to achieve its goals through the use of physical or armed force is not legal' and that the courts have the right to judge a political party as a criminal organisation

16/10/2014

Heavily indebted coalition parties move to ringfence state funding from seizure

Coalition parties New Democracy and Pasok, which combined owe over €270m to the country’s banks, on Wednesday successfully tabled an amendment that will ringfence 40% of state funding to political parties from seizure

Move by ruling New Democracy and Pasok parties to protect a significant portion of state funding from possible seizure is being widely viewed within the context of the strong possibility of snap elections between now and spring

15/10/2014

New film follows the transformation of the Agora from democracy to the market

In ancient times, the agora was at the heart of democracy. In modern Greece, the word has lost its initial meaning and it has come to denote solely the place and act of commercial transactions.

A hard-hitting documentary about the Greek crisis will have its world premiere world premiere on November 9 at the upcoming C... | Latest news from Greece

15/10/2014

Family of murdered Golden Dawn member demand party stop using his image

Manos Kapelonis was one of two Golden Dawn members shot dead in an attack on a party office in November 2013

Family of Manos Kapelonis, who was shot dead last November, say Golden Dawn' use of their son's name and image is 'absolutely incompatible with the nature of his beliefs and ideals and is offensive to his personality'

14/10/2014

Although parliament's own budget watchdog agency sets the poverty line for a married couple with two underage children at €908 a month, the government's trial guaranteed minimum income measure foresees a monthly benefit of only €400 for this category http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.society&id=2072

09/10/2014

Loukanikos, Greece's famous riot dog, breathes his last

The revolutionary canine celebrity died peacefully in his sleep

One of Time magazine's top 100 personalities of 2011, the late Loukanikos took part in all the major demonstrations against troika-imposed austerity, always on the side of the people

08/10/2014

Remembering the Greek Jews who participated in the Auschwitz revolt 70 years ago

Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of the uprising

On 7 October 1944, having learned that the SS was going to liquidate much of the squad, the members of the Sonderkommando, including Greeks, rose in revolt, setting fire to a crematorium and attacking SS guards with hammers, axes and stones

07/10/2014

Cello haze: an Athens cellist's tribute to Jimi Hendrix

What do you get when you cross Jimi Hendrix and a cello?

In a music video produced last month in Athens, Greek cellist Fernando Nina takes Hendrix’s 'Foxy Lady' and blends it with contemporary dance, street art and Hendrix’s own aesthetic

06/10/2014

Baltakos plans new rightwing force with Golden Dawn figures, claims report

Baltakos plans new rightwing force with Golden Dawn figures, claims report

Sunday newspaper claims former cabinet secretary and prime minister's righthand man Takis Baltakos is planning a new political entity that could include 'serious' elements from within Golden Dawn

26/09/2014

Greece is the only EU country without guaranteed minimum income, report finds

"The demand for social responsibility on the part of citizens is pronounced but what the state offers is characterised by fragmentation and administrative problems."

Although the government has promised to start a pilot guaranteed minimum income programme this month, the envisaged payment of €200 a month for a single person on no income would still leave him or her below the poverty line of €432 a month for one person

25/09/2014

Vassilis Paleokostas: Greece's Robin Hood?

What do you, the jury, say?

Researched and written by Los Angeles-based British journalist Jeff Maysh, The Uncatchable takes an immersive approach to explain the biography of a Vassilis Paleokostas, dubbed Greece’s Robin Hood, because of his legendary habit of distributing the proceeds of his crimes to people in need

23/09/2014

Golden Dawn figures jailed for attempted murder

Four people were attending a Spanish language course, when a man wearing a helmet entered the room yelling “Greetings from Golden Dawn! You're going to die, w*nkers!”

Court finds Vasilis Siatounis and Athanasios Stratos guilty of participating in a gang attack on the Antipnoia anarchist space in Kato Petralona in 2008, in which a Greek and a Spanish national were stabbed

22/09/2014

Video shows Golden Dawn's No 2 teaching children to chant 'Heil Hi**er!'

In the video, Christos Pappas can be heard encouraging a young boy, dressed in a traditional Greek costume and wearing a sw****ka armband, to say “Heil Hi**er” while holding a small N**i flag

Video is one of four that that is included in the case file against Christos Pappas, who along with Golden Dawn’s leader and other MPs, is facing charges of forming and directing a criminal organisation

19/09/2014

Irish films at this year's Athens International Film Festival

Screening tonight!

Three Irish films feature in this year’s Athens International Film Festival, the 20th in the series. They are Gold, a feature comedy directed by Niall Heery, psychological horror The Canal, directe...

19/09/2014

Samaras' righthand man used SMS to tell Golden Dawn MPs how to vote

After a Golden Dawn MP was expelled from parliament for calling other MPs "goats" and "jokers", Takis Baltakos, Antonis Samaras' closest aide, passed on his "congratulations" to the ne***zi party

Text messages show that interaction between former cabinet secretary Takis Baltakos and Golden Dawn, which was already exposed in a video that emerged in April, went beyond 'social contact and gossip'

16/09/2014

Greece comes last in EU social justice index

"The resulting diminution of prospects for broad swathes of society represents a significant danger to the country’s political and social stability. These developments illustrate that the cuts induced by the crisis are not administered in a balanced way throughout the population"

Of the six indicators measured in the Bertelsmann Foundation social justice report, Greece came last in four: access to education, access to the labour market, social cohesion and non-discrimination and intergenerational equity

12/09/2014

Government interference cited as Nerit chairman and deputy resign

Nerit "will neither be an independent nor quality broadcaster", according to the new broadcaster's deputy chairman, who resigned yesterday

Syriza blames the resignations of Nerit chairman and his deputy on a government directive to the station not to broadcast the speech of its leader to the Thessaloniki International Fair on Saturday

11/09/2014

Filming The Road to Sparta

Crowdfunding sought for The Road to Sparta, an 'artumentary' on the 246km ultramarathon between Athens and Sparta

The brainchild of sports journalist Barney Spender, the 30-minute film The Road to Sparta promises to be an 'artumentary where sport meets history meets music, a film of brain, brawn and beauty'

07/09/2014

Greek island police chief snapped giving N**i salute

In 1999, the same officer admitted using his service pistol to fire a volley of shots at the graveside of former dictator Georgios Papadopoulos

A photograph has emerged showing the police chief of a Greek island giving a fascist salute in front of a N**i-era train in a German museum.In the image, published in Ethnos on Sunday, Lieutenant Y...