Just 13 years old, and he was turned into a migrant smuggler, carrying Syrian asylum seekers who had slipped into Greece over the Evros border with Turkey to Thessaloniki. On the way to the northern port city, he lost control of the car he was driving and crashed.
A complete overhaul of the National Health System (ESY) is one of the big and essential reforms that has been beset by foot-dragging.
The state’s inability to put its real estate assets to good use is a story as old as the hills in Greece, an opportunity that is constantly being lost under mounds of red tape, clientelist relationships and corruption.
As part of the government’s effort to keep doctors in the struggling National Health System (ESY), they are set to receive a 10% increase in their total salaries from the beginning of next year, on a midterm basis.
Conductor and songwriter Stavros Xarchakos pays tribute to the great Cretan lyra player and composer Nikos Xylouris (1936-80) with a big concert at the Herod Atticus Theater.
“The Turks are always very friendly,” almost all Kastellorizo’s residents agree when asked by Kathimerini, and many go on to point to Gogo and Kerem. I don’t know if it’s my hunger speaking, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen more appetizing fried calamari than that being tipped out of Gogo’s […]
What do the people who worked with Irene Papas remember of her? What has stayed with them? What did people feel when they saw her for the first time or met her?
A 19-year-old was arrested on Friday afternoon in connection with an attack on a South Korean national outside Olympiakos soccer club’s Karaiskakis Stadium on Thursday.
Three men were charged on Saturday with disrupting the peace following clashes inside and around the campus of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University on Friday evening.