Protesters take part in a rally during a nationwide strike over the high cost of living, calling for improved pay and working conditions, in Athens on November 20. [GEORGE VITSARAS/EPA] The union of municipal and regional government employees (POE-OTA) has announced a 24-hour nationwide strike on Friday, March 21, demanding the permanent employment of municipal …
Nikos Papadopoulos, a religious-fundamentalist lawmaker from the nationalist Niki party, has been released from custody after being held under guard at the National Gallery for vandalizing four artworks by Christophoros Katsadiotis. Had the prosecutor classified the act as a felony, specifically, aggravated damage, parliamentary immunity would not have applied, and he would have faced formal …
Turkey has filed an appeal against the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) decision that annulled the “TurkAegean” trademark. The appeal was submitted just days before the deadline, which officially expires on Monday. This move was widely anticipated as Turkey appears resolute in continuing its legal battle following the landmark ruling on January 10, which …
Christophoros Katsadiotis’ ‘Saint Christopher’ from 2020 was one of the pieces singled out by the enraged MP. An artist “has the right to express his or her personal point of view, to react and, in so doing, ask the questions they want to ask, such as, for example, about war waged on the pretext of …
7,000 Christians and Alawites have been “slaughtered” in Syria according to Greek Member of the European Parliament, Nikolas Farantouris, a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Security & Defense, who visited Damascus on 8-9 March. SYRIZA MEP Nikolas Farantouris has returned from the Syrian capital, where he met with religious leaders, including Greek Orthodox …
[Shutterstock] A young martial arts student from Hania, Crete, has died after suffering a serious head injury during training. As reported by local media, the 19-year-old, who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of Hania General Hospital, died on Monday morning despite doctors’ efforts to keep him alive. According to the hospital’s director, Giorgos …
Millions of users worldwide are facing difficulties accessing the social networking platform X, formerly known as Twitter. According to Downdetector.com, a platform that tracks outages by collecting status reports from various sources, the service is down for users in the United States and the United Kingdom. In Greece, local users began reporting issues with the …
Fifty-seven people were killed in the head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train packed with students outside the town of Tempe in central Greece, just before midnight on February 28, 2023. While the ruling conservative party won a landslide re-election just months after the disaster, public frustration over the tragedy and its …
In an interview with Greek City Times, the Piraeus B Member of the Hellenic Parliament called for the “strictest consequences at the diplomatic, economic and military levels following the horrific massacres in Tartous and Latakia provinces on Syria’s Mediterranean coast and said that all parties that have governed Greece are responsible for the Tempi train …
One in four houses in Attica, or a total of 526,154 properties, are closed or empty, as shown by the building stock census by ELSTAT in 2021. This figure partly explains the large mismatch between supply and demand, as well as the high sale and rental prices. Property market experts say the current number is …