Roza Eskenazi: canary of the Aegean
06/11/2014
She danced, she sang, she hid resistance fighters – and her music ended up in Pulp Fiction. Laura Barton celebrates the rediscovery of Roza Eskenazi, the Greek firebrand who united…
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One year later, PM’s ‘free Wi-Fi for all’ pledge looking, increasingly, like a pipe dream
06/11/2014
On November 4 2013, Antonis Samaras pledged to provide free Wi-Fi access hotspots around the country ‘in a year΄s time’. But his promise seems more like a farce as internet…
Commission probes Greek gas privatization by Azeri SOCAR
05/11/2014
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether the proposed acquisition of the Greek gas transmission system operator DESFA by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic…
Greek secondary schools swept by wave of facebook-inspired student sit-ins
05/11/2014
Heeding a call on Facebook for a ‘Panhellenic Occupation’, students across the country are participating in sits-in at schools to protest against secondary education reform
Not the gods again!
05/11/2014
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…
Amnesty: Convictions following racist attack against Roma ‘first step to justice’
05/11/2014
Today’s conviction of three men following a brutal racist attack on a Roma woman and her nephew is a “first step towards justice”, said Amnesty International and Greek Helsinki Monitor…
EU leaders weigh plan for Greek exit from bailout
05/11/2014
“A completely clean exit is highly unlikely,” says EU official
Greece can use bank rescue funds after bailout exit – cenbanker
05/11/2014
Greece can use the remaining 11.5 billion euros in its bank rescue fund as a precautionary credit line when it exits its EU/IMF bailout, the country΄s central bank chief told…
Greece exited recession in second quarter: EU Commission
05/11/2014
Greece’s gross domestic product expanded in the second quarter on a seasonally-adjusted basis, ending the worst recession since World War II for the country at the center of Europe’s debt…
Greece hopes exhibit at Canadian Museum of History will help free Elgin Marbles from Britain
05/11/2014
Greece hopes a blockbuster exhibit coming to the Canadian Museum of History next year will boost its argument for repatriating the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum