Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2008
The split within the ranks of the main opposition party is back in the news. A former culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos has annouced plans to create a club within the party. The recent meeting between both parties to discuss a proposal ended in a cloud of discord. I met with the party leader George [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2008
The Greek cities of Volos and Larissa have won the right to host the 2013 Mediterranean games.
The CEO of Volos-Larissa Bidding Committe, Dionyssis Yagas on what the next step is:
To say the truth, its not something that concerns me, my job is over, The President and I have delivered and we are waiting to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2007
The fires that ravaged Greece this summer killed 67 people and destroyed some 642,000 acres of forest and farmland, thousands of houses and barns, and countless people’s hopes and livelihoods. One tenth of Greece’s forest cover is gone; large tracts of countryside are at risk of depopulation. “These wounds will never heal,” Poulis mourns. “there are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2007
In a strange turn of events, the police are holding a 55 year old stock breeder accused of killing two people. The murderer appeared to have had differences with one of the victims. He stormed a café armed with a shot gun and killed a 46 year old man, and then killed a 26 year [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2007
The Parthenon Marbles and their possible return to Greece is the hottest news this week. The Marbles have been housed in a British Museum since 1815 and sources at the Museum have said under no circumstance will they be returned to Greece.
The Director of the new Acropolis Museum Dimitris Pandermalis agrees that the reunification [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 18th, 2007
The issue of poverty has become a global one, such that programmes have been set up to raise awareness of this problem. In 2005, A Global Campaign against Poverty was launched with over one hundred International co-olition around the world. The campaign recently mobilized people in order to raise their voices against poverty. The idea [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2007
The compative research on integration policies in 25 European Union countries including Switzerland and Canada shows
Greece at a very low level. The exercise among the European countries indicates the different fields of integration policy were
Greece has to improve. Most it’s about the political participation of immigrants which includes the right to vote at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2007
A new World Bank report has been published citing Singapore as the easiest place in the world to do business. 178 countries are ranked in a league table which shows Greece in position number 100…the worst placed of the European Union countries.
With the EU bloc generally considered a pretty good place to do business, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2007
Within days of New Democracy re-election, the goverment gave property developers the green light to build on an enviromentally sensitive area next to forests ravaged by this summer’s deadly fires. Documents leaked to the Greek press show the finance Ministry pushed through an agreement allowing building to begin in a protected area in the Southern [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2007
The ruckus in the opposition party is dominating headlines in Greece. It’s become so dirty that the hope of settling it relatively peacefully seems farfetched. A minute after George Papandrew made his first speech conceding defeat to New Democracy, Evangelos Venizelos came out and made his and both took calm swipes at each other. Though [...]
