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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

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One fifth of pets are victims of harassment

According to animal rights advocates, today's World Animal Day is a day of mourning; stray animals are killed intentionally.

GRReporter | 20:10 | 04 10 11 |

Help to save their jobs seek the employees of "Help at Home"

Interior Minister Haris Kastanidis went down to talk with the protesting employees, but most of them were skeptical to his promises.

GRReporter | 18:09 | 30 09 11 |

Military, civil servants, medical staff and students on the first line of protests

Military retired broke the entrance of the Ministry of Defence, civil servants do not admit the representatives of the supervisory Troika in the...

GRReporter | 20:09 | 30 09 11 |

Mass rallies, but weak protests on Syntagma Square

For now, the protests are not at all the same as the mass rallies held in June. Police forces are not so numerous either. Yet participants say they...

GRReporter | 08:09 | 30 09 11 |

Athens centre inaccessible due to road chaos, strikes and protest blockades

Employees in the urban transport have decided to suspend their strike from tomorrow until the end of the week. Taxi owners decided to fight to the...

GRReporter | 19:09 | 28 09 11 |

Extra taxes in the dock

Lawyers warn that even if the Supreme Court cancels the ministerial decisions it is not able to oblige the government to withdraw the extra taxes.

GRReporter | 20:09 | 26 09 11 |

A week of protests and strikes on all fronts

Students occupied a TV studio, policemen conquered the Likavitos hill.

GRReporter | 13:09 | 26 09 11 |

Unions fiercely against layoffs in Greece

The Scientific Institute of the Syndicate of private sector employees (GSEE) provides unemployment rate from 26 percent in 2012 and over a million...

GRReporter | 13:09 | 23 09 11 |

Clockwork Athens

"We will not surrender, the measures will not pass," calling out the angry mob, which met early afternoon in front of the University of Athens. Riots...

GRReporter | 17:09 | 22 09 11 |

In Greece there is still nostalgia for the radical Left and the opposition to power through violent means

The media is irresponsible, there is inherited distrust towards the special forces ever since the years of the junta , and thousands of Greek...

GRReporter | 13:09 | 22 09 11 |

Mass strikes by the end of September

The austerity economic measures and the threat of dismissals in the public sector have opened the season of strikes in Greece. Daily protests will be...

GRReporter | 18:09 | 20 09 11 |