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Archive - May 2011

May 17th

Youth unemployment in Greece - lack of initiative or lack of opportunity?

17 May 2011 / 21:05:08  
The experts from the Institute of Youth and the General Directorate New Generation at the Ministry of Employment, who replied GRReporter’s question of why the young people in Greece are unemployed. The main reasons are higher education dragging over time and the national psychology that the child should stay at home with the parents as longer as possible.


May 17th

Pressure cooker, model 2700 BC

17 May 2011 / 20:05:42  
The first fully preserved brazier was found during the excavations in the cemetery near Aksiupouli.


Crime is not a question of nationality, and hunger is the worst advisor

17 May 2011 / 19:05:32  
If the government does not handle the real problems that are piling up for years, all measures for central Athens would be superficial, says the longtime resident of Victoria Square Kriton Piperas in an interview with Anastasia Balezdrova.


The additional support seems inevitable but Brussels is dissatisfied

17 May 2011 / 12:05:53  
Greece hopes to get additional 60 billion euros as it has no prospects to enter the capital markets by 2012. Europe is divided into two on whether the debt should be restructured or not and insists on political consensus for reforms.


The police will chase the extreme rightists and leftists and the citizens will seek safety in security firms

16 May 2011 / 22:05:58  
The police unite two police squads to prevent racist attacks against foreigners and actions by far rightists in the centre of Athens. The citizens are increasingly resorting to the services of security companies.


Greece has benefited from the cheap labour of immigrants for years, but does not integrate them

16 May 2011 / 21:05:57  
Last week's events were a matter of time, according to the chairman of the Hellenic League for Human Rights.


May 16th

Economists expect complications to Greece after the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

16 May 2011 / 14:05:41  
They are sorry for him in Athens, global experts say that what happened is not a fatal blow to Greece.