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Archive - Mar 2011

March 16th

Requiem for another Athens

16 March 2011 / 17:03:10  
The old centre of Athens and in particular the area behind Omonia Square is a meeting point today of illegal businesses, illegal warehouses, immigrants, lawlessness, drug addicts and homeless people. This is the conclusion of the study of the SARCHA's young architects. It was not surprising at all.


Greeks urged to leave Tokyo

16 March 2011 / 15:03:07  
The Greek Embassy in Tokyo has sent an e-mail message inviting Greek nationals in Tokyo either to return to Greece, or to evacuate at least 500 km away from the Fukoshima nuclear plant.


"No, but yes" to a new Memorandum after 2012

16 March 2011 / 15:03:54  
If capital markets remain closed for Greece after 2012 it will face a new Memorandum of new measures. This became clear from the statement the Greek Finance Minister George Papakonstantinou made after the Ecofin, who cleverly preferred the word programme’.


Two of the hunger strikers threatened to burn themselves to death when leaving for Crete

15 March 2011 / 22:03:23  
After 44 days of water and sugar the 249 immigrants received documents for six months stay and left to Crete by ship.


The crisis hit bribery in Greece

15 March 2011 / 22:03:19  
There is decline in corruption, according to Transparency International. Unfortunately, doctors and tax officers keep the knife and the bread in the public sector in the citizen – institution relations.


March 15th

Athens with routes for cyclists and municipal bicycles

15 March 2011 / 17:03:22  
Climbing walls and health parks are among the proposals of the Ministry of Health within the programme to promote sports.


Earthquake simulations of deadly shocks without life hazards

15 March 2011 / 15:03:46  
What are the anti-seismic practices known in Greece, how are people trained what to do when there is a strong earthquake, and what is "seismic simulator"? The Director of the Institute for Seismic Protection and Planning Nikitas Papadopoulos answers all these questions.