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Farmers’ invasion promises chaos in Athens

12 February 2016 / 07:02:23
Following a day full of tension and clashes with police, 10,000 Greek farmers are holding a rally in central Athens.

Farmers are seizing Athens

Greeks from around the world help...

The small victims of the refugee...

Greece is preparing to put into...

Farmers block the Tembi pass for...

Greece on strike against its financial stability

Trade unions paralyze the country for 24 hours, multimillion Athens remained without public transport for four days, the airspace above Greece is...

GRReporter | 09:12 | 15 12 10 |

Policemen, firefighters and coastguards joined the chain of protests in Athens

Over 1500 men and women in uniforms took part in a protest rally to express their discontent with the measures of fiscal discipline and stabilization...

GRReporter | 10:12 | 15 12 10 |

"Civil" protest with Molotov burned fire trucks

Protesters threaten to blockade the port in Lavrio and to cut the power in Athens off.

GRReporter | 11:12 | 14 12 10 |

Trade unions: The government to withdraw the company agreements draft, even at the last minute!

Unions of state companies, rail workers, public transport employees, who organized a 24-hour strike, aviation employees, banking officials, who also...

GRReporter | 12:12 | 15 12 10 |

Christmas concert in the temple of St. Panteleimon with police and racist slogans

The Greek archbishopric and the Music Chamber in Athens organized the event to put an end to clashes between xenophobe groups and immigrants in the...

GRReporter | 16:12 | 13 12 10 |

Hard times for public transport passengers in Athens

Urban transport employees that decided to stop all vehicles from 11 am to 4 pm are on strike still from Sunday. Buses, trolleys and subway strikes...

GRReporter | 10:12 | 13 12 10 |

Happy first snow, Athens!

The Greek capital woke up this morning covered with a thin white gown - the first snow in the city in two years now.

GRReporter | 09:12 | 11 12 10 |

Sports schools in Greece will be closed down

Three decades after their opening, the sports high schools in Greece are about to be closed down because, according to the Ministry of Education,...

GRReporter | 10:12 | 11 12 10 |

Bill reduces the salaries in state enterprises, strikes against company labour contracts

Radical changes will occur in the field of investment, in the payment system of employees in state enterprises (DEKO) and in prices because of the ...

GRReporter | 18:12 | 10 12 10 |

Refugees from Afghanistan, Iran and Palestine stitch their lips, go on a hunger strike to obtain refugee status

For more than two weeks the sidewalk across from the UN mission in Athens has become a tent camp of dozens of refugees. There is a tent camp in front...

GRReporter | 10:12 | 10 12 10 |