Anarchists staged a protest in a MyMarket branch in Thessaloniki on Wednesday,  a day after a company memo told employees that they have to smile because not only they have a job but they also get paid. Members of the collective “Freedom Initiative of Thessaloniki” entered the supermarket, threw leaflets …

Data collected from credit institutions show that nominal apartment prices are estimated to have increased on average by 2.5% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2018, the Bank of Greece said in a press released issued on March 5.  The average annual increase in apartment prices was 1.5% in 2018, …

With a new legislation, pharmacies in Greece will be converted into Primary Health Units. Strong objections by the Medical Association of Athens that warns “public health is at risk.” With an amendment submitted to Parliament by Health Minister Andreas Xanthos, pharmacies in Greece will be allowed to perform primary health …

A shocking report about Greece’s demographic problem was revealed at the Parliamentary Committee dealing with the issue. Demographers speak of  ‘extremely low’ birth rates, in the sense that there are 1.24 births per couple. The report predicts that at the end of the next 20 years (2035) the population of …

Greek authorities have charged 20 people with negligence in connection with the country’s deadliest wildfire in decades, which killed 100 and devastated the seaside town of Mati near Athens last year. Court officials say the suspects include the greater Athens regional authority chief, Rena Dourou, the mayors of Mati and …

Authorities in Northern Greece have arrested a Bulgarian citizen for trafficking babies. The 38-year-old man was arrested while he was trying to return to Bulgaria although arrest warrants were issued there as well. According to media, the man would find poor mothers in Bulgaria, offered them a price and bring …

Former finance Minister and now President of the German Parliament, Wolfgang Schaeuble, admitted that he “asked a lot” from Greeks but it was for their own good.of the Greeks when he was finance minister at the peaks of the country’s crisis, but had good reason to do so. “As minister …

What if Turkish lawmakers are guest at the Greek Palriament? They do not hesitate to provoke and threaten both their hosts and the Greek-Cypriots and claim rights over part of the Aegean Sea and the Cyprus Economic Exclusive Zone. “The unilateral extraction of hydrocarbons on the part of the Republic …

For the first time after the Greek crisis and the bailout agreements, the government will implement the scheme 1:1 in order to strengthen staff in the country’s health system. The scheme 1 recruitment  : 1 departure/retirement was abolished by the lenders’ first bailout of 2010 and replaced with 1:5 scheme …

There are about 15,000 immigrants living in the Greek islands, Migration Minister Dimitris Vitsas said on Monday. He pointed out at the overpopulation of the hot spots on Samos and Moria on Lesvos. And he stressed that the majority of migrants arriving in Greece nowadays are from Afghanistan and countries …