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  • Volunteerism sees significant rise during crisis in Greece

    The economic crisis appears to have generated a new spirit of volunteerism in Greece, a country where this social activity has not been particularly widespread in the past.A survey made public on Tuesday suggested that there has been a 44 percent increase in the number of Greeks taking part in volunteer projects since 2010, when Greece signed up to the EU-IMF bailout.The opinion poll, carried ...

  • ECB funding to Greek lenders keeps dropping

    European Central Bank funding to Greek banks fell by 10.5 billion euros in April while emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) from the ...

  • Ex-chiefs of Bank of Cyprus Popular Bank say Piraeus deal was ‘bad’

    The former presidents of Bank of Cyprus and of Cyprus Popular Bank (Laiki), Andreas Artemis and Andreas Filippou respectively, stated on Tuesday that they had not signed the agreement for the concession of the two ...

  • National’s reverse split drags index below 1100 pts

    The Greek bourse continued its downward slide for a second day in a row on Tuesday, and at a higher rate, as bank stocks are proving extremely volatile as they undergo recapitalization.The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed at 1,090.89 points, shedding 3.96 percent from ...

  • Top policeman on trial for robbing migrant trader

    The head of the police precinct in Rendi, southern Athens, goes on trial in a Piraeus court Wednesday charged with robbing a Pakistani store owner, trying to blackmail him and getting him arrested on trumped-up drugs charges.Imtiaz Alam Jafari filed a complaint with police in February after the unnamed precinct chief allegedly stopped him and robbed him of 4,000 euros. Jafari claims to have ...


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Movie Review

The Orphanage (El Orfanato)

The Orphanage (El Orfanato)

Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (El Orfanato) begins with a curious image: a shot of a cloudy sky in which the sunlight is still burning through, but just barely, which creates an evocative portrait of the struggle between light and dark. It also projects a premonition ... ...

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  • Google ECD Vranakis Redesigns Greece’s Image

    Vranakis, 41, born in Canada, but originating from Chania, Crete, is the Executive Creative Director of Google’s Creative Lab. His long experience in the digital world and advertising has got him involved with numerous platforms such as the Chrome Lab Web, the World Wonders Project, the Google+ ';A life lived and shared';, the ';Jam with Chrome'; and the YouTube Space ...

  • Greek Offshore Companies Audited

    The Inter-regional Audit Center in Athens (DEK Athens) is closely inspecting 218 offshore companies, resulting from a document forwarded to the Parliament by Deputy Finance Minister George Mavraganis, after questions from SYRIZA MP’s. The MP’s invoked the ICIJ (International Consortium Investigative Journalists) research and stressed out that only four out of the 107 Greek companies ...

  • Samaras Vows War On Unemployment

    As his government is getting set to shed 15,000 public servants over the next two years on the orders of international lenders putting up bailouts, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his administration will bring down the country’s record 27 percent unemployment rate by attracting foreign companies to hire Greeks without jobs. "We have consolidated Greece's position in ...

  • Greek Cypriot leader meets Israeli minister

    Anastasiadis and Netanyahu discussed cooperation in field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met with leader of the Greek Cypriot administration Nicos Anastasiadis in Jerusalem.Cooperation in the field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean were discussed during ...

  • Muslim Association of Greece ups security after receiving threatening letter

    The Muslim Association of Greece (MAG) is going to step up security at its premises in Athens after receiving a threatening letter last week, its president, Naim Elghandour, told Kathimerini on Tuesday.The letter, written on paper bearing the Golden Dawn symbol but not necessarily sent by the far-right party, warned Muslims to leave Greece ...

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