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December 20th, 2012

A policeman was stabbed at a football stadium

20 December 2012 / 19:12:37  
Olympiakos believes that lawyer Alexis Kougias, president of opposing team Panahaiki, was the initiator of the clashes. At the same time, he and former boss of Olympiakos Volos were summoned by the police because of the match-fixing scandal.


Police raid against an anarchist commune in central Athens

20 December 2012 / 12:12:16  
Villa Amalia is a neoclassical building on the corner of Acharnon and Hevden Streets in the Greek capital city. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the abandoned building began to be used as a meeting place for young people with "alternative" ideas on the Western European squads’ principle.


Alexis Tsipras's Latin American Christmas

19 December 2012 / 22:12:21  
SYRIZA's leader tried unsuccessfully to meet with President of Brazil Dilma Rouseff. His visit to Argentina is awaited with great interest; the country, which he, until recently, gave as an example to follow, is now floundering again.


Some 50% of working-age Greeks are seeking employment abroad

19 December 2012 / 22:12:27  
One third of those who would like to leave Greece say that the main reason for this is high unemployment. Some 26% say that the internal labour market does not offer development prospects in their desired field and 12% are paid the minimum wage and want to find something better abroad.


December 19th

Low participation in the Pan-Hellenic public sector strike

19 December 2012 / 19:12:26  
Half of the protesters in Athens were members of leftist parties and organisations. Communists protested against the policy of budget cuts, while staff was being fired in the party newspaper Rizospastis.


Toxic smog from burning firewood covered Athens

19 December 2012 / 17:12:06  
The average acceptable value of fine particles in the atmosphere is 50 micrograms per cubic metre. In the metropolitan district of Maroussi it reached 174 micrograms per cubic metre, in Halandri and suburban Aspropirgos it was 150 micrograms per cubic metre.


December 18th

Court without any knowledge of the aviation business decides the fate of Helios's employees

18 December 2012 / 21:12:55  
Chief pilot of the airline Janko Stoimenov's speech for the defence lasted more than three hours, since it was interrupted by many questions both from the court and the prosecutor