Thank God it’s Friday!

Fridays are special all over the world. The last day of the week means the weekend is round the corner and we can somehow relax. In Greece Fridays are fasting days, very often they are “popular” market days (open air vegetable and various other foodstuff markets operated by farmers and not only…)and almost invariably hairdressers [...]

Theodore Angelopoulos dead after accident

http://www.theoangelopoulos.com/main.htm

the official website

Synaspismsos, the New Left party in Greece (SYNASPISMOS=coalition of the left of movements and ecology) has been struggling for a mutual reduction of the military budgets of Greece and Turkey. This campaign was launched during the 4th European Social Forum in Athens (May 2006) in cooperation with the Turkish party ODP (Freedom and Solidarity party) [...]

National Health Care System in dire straits

Doctors, self employed and state employed, are on strike in Greece. At the same time pharmacies have stopped providing medicines to people ensured in the Social Security System (IKA is the largest social security fund in Greece but smaller ones are also in the pharmacists black list) claiming that the social security fail to repay [...]

Ex PASOK Minister charged for bullying a policeman

Mr. Kimon Koulouris, former PASOK Minister, is charged with bullying a policeman. The incident has taken greater dimensions than it should have because of Mr.Koulouris’ multiple violation of the traffic code and his refusal to cooperate with the police. On tv broadcasts as well as the social media the public is reacting fiercely to the [...]

P.Beglitis: LAOS’government participation a political mistake

Panos Beglitis, former Minister of Defence in George Papandreou’s government and now PASOK spokesman, stated during a television interview at the state television in November 2011, that the participation of the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) in the Papademos government was a political mistake. When asked by journalist Kostas Arvanitis what he thought the repercussions of [...]

January 8 – a very sketchy overview of the state Greek society is in

Theofaneia, the commemoration of Christ’s baptismal, is a very important day in the Greek Orthodox calendar. It is also, together with Saint John’s the Baptist celebration on the 7th of January, the time when we expect the bad weather to begin in Greece, when we take down the Christmas decorations and the official end of [...]

Christmas sweets: an antidote to the crisis

A long time ago one of the most “serious” (  I don’t think he would like the title) contemporary Greek writers wrote a hilarious novel tearing to pieces a large number of “sacred cows”. When asked how come he wrote something like this he answered that he felt “Greek society needed a spoonful of sugar” [...]