If you wonder who are those Greeks who go out on the roads, blocking the highway, striking, screaming and complaining of the reduction of the 13th, 14th and 15th salary and want everything as it was back in the day, I can tell you that Themisto Angelopolos is not one of them. He is a boy born in Patras and raised in a village near the Peloponnesian town. You will not see him striking and protesting, not because he has a problem with defending labor rights in Greece, but because he has never taken advantage of them.

Participation of workers was disappointing in last night's union rally under the slogan "IMF's sty does not belong to Greeks," reports Victoria Mindova from the rally.

"We will not put our heads down in front of the exorable policy of the International Monetary Fund and the EU," said a protester in the rally against strict new economic policy of the Greek government. Although the protest was not big, angry Greeks vowed to strengthen the strike action.

Tonight, the two biggest Greek unions GSEE and ADEDY along with the union of bank employees OTTOE are organizing a large protest against the reform of the pension system in the center of Athens.

Public engagement in Greece has increased and the government took urgent measures to tackle high level corruption and to restore the confidence of Greeks in the political system.

The International Hellenic University (IHU) has designed two new, specialist postgraduate programmes, starting next October 2010: the Master of Science in Energy Systems and the Master of Science in Information and Communication Technology Systems, offered by the School of Science and Technology.

This past Saturday might have been just an ordinary day for most people but for dog owners it was as exciting as for a first grader showing off a new toy at school. The Kennel Club of Greece hosted the 2 X CACIB qualification dog show for DFS Crufts 2011 in Marathon Land in Athens.