Category Archives: Latest Greek news

Why don’t we celebrate July 24, 1974?

The transition from a dictatorship to a democracy on July 24, 1974 is the epitome of what we call a “historic day,” yet it has never been celebrated as a national anniversary.

Pola Roupa granted conditional release

Pola Roupa, a convicted member of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group, was on Friday released from prison.

Catastrophic flood drives village of Metamorfosi to seek relocation

When floodwaters gushed through the farming village of Metamorfosi in September, residents fled. Now they want to relocate their entire community, terrified it cannot survive another bout of extreme weather driven by climate change.

A cultural premise

Greece’s so-called Polytechnic generation, those who participated in the uprising against the military junta in the early 1970s, is often associated with well-known figures who primarily pursued political or journalistic careers in the subsequent years.

Kasselakis commemorates Athens Polytechnic uprising

Stefanos Kasselakis, the leader of Greece’s main leftist opposition, on Friday laid a wreath at the memorial on the grounds of the former Military Police Special Interrogation Unit (EAT/ESA) to commemorate the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising. 

Antimicrobial resistance spreading fear

The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) awareness campaign gets under way on Saturday as part of World Antibiotic Awareness Week (November 18-24) amid growing concern over the proliferation of strains of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi for which there are virtually no active antibiotics available.

Greek authorities conduct search and rescue operation after dinghy carrying migrants capsizes

Greek authorities conducted a search and rescue operation Friday off the coast of a small islet in the eastern Aegean Sea near the Turkish coast after a dinghy carrying migrants to Greece capsized, the coast guard said.

One migrant dead, 18 rescued off Greek island

Greece’s coastguard rescued 18 migrants and recovered the body of one dead woman on Friday after their boat capsized off an island in the Aegean Sea.

The isolation of the regime

According to the conventional interpretation of the events that transpired in 1973-1974, it was not the Polytechnic Uprising that actually precipitated the military dictatorship’s downfall but the Turkish invasion of Cyprus eight months later, which was prompted by the overthrow of the Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios III by Dimitrios Ioannidis’ regime in Athens.

Athens taken to European Court over state arrears

Greece has been taken to the European Court of Justice for the issue of overdue public debts.