The program to support the long-term unemployed can only be described as a joke after it is revealed that only 7,816 claimants have qualified for the benefit when the number…
A Paris based research institute has found that Romanians work the hardest in Europe followed by the Greeks when ‘real’ working hours are examined, turning the lazy southern European stereotype…
Data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority reveal the heavy toll that four years of Memorandum-based austerity and six years of recession have had on Greece’s capital and most populous…
Last November, a little girl who lived in a children’s village in Kallithea as her unemployed mother could not afford to provide her with even the basics, asked her mother…
19th century conditions look set to become the rule in the labour market as broad categories of workers in Greece not only face many-month delays before being paid, but increasingly…
The Diary of the Unemployed began as an online experiment by journalist and author Christoforos Kasdaglis (who also coordinates TPP’s Greek language site). A simple invitation for the unemployed to…
According to the 357-page World Social Protection report published today by the Geneva based organization, fiscal consolidation as a response to the worldwide financial crisis has had a number of…
Today in Greece more and more mothers are staying home. But we shouldn΄t make the mistake of explaining away high female unemployment as a ‘lifestyle choice’ argues Stella Kasdagli.
A long-time researcher of Greece΄s labour and financial issues who is running with SYRIZA for a seat in Brussels, talks to TPPi about misconceptions, botched forecasts and Europe΄s necessary paradigm…
They are as archetypically Greek as the frappe shakers and Assos cigarettes they sell. But already struggling due to the crisis, a little discussed measure in the recently passed omnibus…