16th place int the giant slalom for women and 40th place in the slalom for men took the Greek athletes Vivi Christodulopoulou and Yannis Papavasiliou. Not the place they took, but the successful reaching to the finals in both stages is what makes the athletes happy

Black Eyed Peas are expected to confirms their participation in the festival.

The main problems that unions claim are poor working conditions in hospitals and chronic shortages of staff and funding. Due to reduced budgets this year, many public hospitals have to reduce their staff and experts say the staff is vital for the normal functioning of hospitals.

“Social networks are intricate things of beauty,” said Nick Christakis, professor at Harvard University, during his lecture. To be quite honest when I was leaving my house that night to go to the Hellenic American Union in Athens, where his lecture was taking place, I was not expecting that this thought will stay with me for days.

Greece frees and eases the access of foreigners to the closed professions. According to a bill which yesterday was introduced in Parliament the engineers, advertising agents and tourist guides who are citizens of other European countries would be able to work freely in Greece.

The government has to take responsibility and take care of the compensation of insurance contracts, requested the people affected by the bankruptcy of Aspida Pronia and Commercial Value at the protest demonstration in front of the Ministry of Finance.

17 million euro costs to the country the maintenance of the non functioning shipyard Skaramanga since the beginning of November 2009 until present. Unfortunately this amount seems to be a drop in the see of the irreversibly lost almost three billion euro which the Greek government has paid to the German company ThyssenKrupp for faulty submarines.