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Albanian PM addresses supporters in Athens
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama addressed a gathering of Albanian migrants, party members and supporters in Athens in the indoor arena of Galatsi under stringent security measures.
Attendees began arriving early Sunday morning. Rama posted on Facebook showcasing the event in Athens.
First list of Egyptian workers presented
The first list of 2,400 Egyptian nationals who will work in Greece was received from the Egyptian government by Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis during his visit to the country on Friday.
Doc shines light on the overlooked Greek female Gastarbeiter
In post-civil war Greece of the 1950s and 1960s, poverty plagued the populace and migration seemed like the only path to a better life for many Greeks. Among the destinations was Germany, which had entered into an agreement with Greece to import migrant workers for its factories.
Better to talk than have finger on trigger, Mitsotakis says
Greece's relations with Turkey appear to have entered a period of relative calm, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Saturday, ahead of his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, adding that "it's better to talk than to constantly have our finger on the trigger."
A lesson in labor
It's hard to believe that the number of working pensioners in Greece has doubled in just a few months. This significant surge undoubtedly stems from workers who, dissuaded by the withholding of their pensions, previously chose to participate in the informal economy.
Greece to bring in Egyptian farm workers amid labor shortage
Greece will start bringing in workers from Egypt this summer to take on temporary farming jobs under a deal between the countries to tackle a labor shortage, the Migration Ministry said on Friday.
After a decade of pain, the Greek economy is forecast to grow nearly 3% this year, far outpacing the eurozone average of 0.8%.
Household chores still ‘women’s work’ in Greece
Household chores and looking after children are purely "women's work" in Greece, Italy and Romania compared to other European countries, according to a survey by the Center of Demographic Studies of Barcelona.
Police releases idenities of main suspects in Patra school drug racket
The identities of four men, aged 20-23, belonging to a 12-member drug trafficking gang which was dismantled on April 26 by narcotics officers in Patra, western Greece, were made public on Wednesday.
According to police, the suspects are the four leading members of the gang, which is believed to have been peddling drugs at a school.
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The future of Greek innovation
The pandemic catapulted Greece into the digital era, with the rapid adoption of e-government services. And in the aftermath, the Greek RRF - Greece 2.0 - featured innovation and digitalization as a prominent pillar for the new Greek economy, with a budget in excess of 30 billion euros.
Jailed neo-Nazi GD deputy leader submits request for early release
Ilias Kasidiaris, the imprisoned former deputy leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group, submitted a request to the judicial authorities for his early release from jail.
Targeting illegal betting firms
The state is about to file its first lawsuit against one or more unlicensed online gambling companies with a presence in Greece, Kathimerini understands.
At a later stage, legal action will also be taken against a prominent social media influencer who urges his hundreds of thousands of followers to engage in illegal betting.
Families pay unduly high tax
Greece imposes a higher income tax on all types of households than most countries in the world and of course the OECD average. Yet the greatest distance is recorded - higher than 10 percentage points - in families with children, especially in those with the lowest family income.
Soaring rents, tourism led to housing crunch in Greece
In the run-up to the European parliament elections in June, many Greeks are focussed on what for them is the big issue: finding a home.
Soaring rents, record-breaking numbers of tourists and a surge in foreign investment in property all mean that getting affordable housing here is an uphill task.
And thousands of people face the same challenge.
The Lost Children’s long road home
These days of Easter, when we meet with beloved family and friends, and count our blessings and the dear ones lost, as we celebrate nature's renewal and the expectation of Resurrection, our minds turn to a group of our people who were cut off from the nation's body at a very young age many years ago and are now trying - persisting against many odds - to win back the Greek citizenship that they