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Archive - 2014

October 8th

Influx of refugees to Greece increases by over 200% in one year

08 October 2014 / 21:10:49  
From early 2014 up to the end August, 22,089 people arrived in the country, while last year the number was around 11,500. In September alone 8,000 people arrived.


October 8th

14% of the population of Greece over 65 years

08 October 2014 / 15:10:05  
This ageing of population characteristic of all western countries is due on the one hand to an increase in life expectancy and, on the other hand, to increasingly low birth rates.


The burial mask of Philip II discovered

08 October 2014 / 13:10:52  
This is the mask that Philip wore during religious ceremonies, probably as a priest in the Orphic mysteries, says researcher Yannis Maniatis.


Difficulties faced by e-government in Greece

08 October 2014 / 12:10:56  
The most important task of public administration should be how to serve citizens more quickly, admits the Minister of Administrative Reform, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.


October 7th

Greece introduces a fast-track procedure for issuing ID cards

07 October 2014 / 17:10:38  
In practice, we are talking about the first electronic interconnection of public services, carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Order, the Ministry of Administrative Reform and e-Government, and the Ministry of the Interior


live Explosion kills three soldiers in Volos

07 October 2014 / 15:10:39  
Two of the killed are professional military men, and the third one was on a compulsory military service.


Liberal ideas and Greece

07 October 2014 / 14:10:14  
Six years after the worst economic crisis that has taken place in the country since its return to democracy, liberal ideas are still foreign to most Greeks.