TANIA GEORGIOPOULOU

Paid surgeries take hold, barely dent waiting lists

Government officials consider the introduction of afternoon paid surgical procedures at state hospitals a success and say the measure will eventually help shrink the huge patient waiting lists for often very serious surgeries.

Public hospital accounts lack sufficient transparency

Accountability and transparency are severely lacking in the National Health System. A study of 90 hospitals and their accounting statements from 2012-20 by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) found rudimentary reporting focused on what state subsidies are spent on and makes no mention of how supplies are used and the state and age of the inventory.

05.04.2024 / 14:50

Mayor seeking stricter fines for public space use

Athens Mayor Haris Doukas said on Thursday he will ask the Interior Ministry for an increase in fines for the illegal placement of tables and seats in public spaces by catering establishments in the Greek capital, so that the relevant inspections conducted by the municipality pay off.

28.03.2024 / 19:21

Seven months after Daniel, only mud remains in Vlochos

A series of beautiful, simple houses with roofs that look like those we see in children’s drawings. Open spaces, sun, signs of the coming spring in most fields – some of which still look like small stagnant lakes.

21.03.2024 / 10:57

City of Athens launches municipal ‘alliance’ for cheaper power

The City of Athens is spearheading an initiative with other municipal authorities in the Attica region that will allow them to negotiate special rates with energy suppliers as a single corporate customer.

16.03.2024 / 11:32

Hands off our cotton, Thessaly farmers tell PM

Representatives of farmers from the region of Thessaly in central Greece said Friday after a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that forcing them to abandon the cultivation of cotton would be a “red line” to them.

13.03.2024 / 11:20

Plan to prevent Thessaly desertification

The problems posed by climate change are being experienced first-hand in Greece, with scientists raising the alarm that the central region of Thessaly is at risk of desertification.

12.03.2024 / 09:11

Migrant flows putting pressure on Crete

The recent spike in migrant flows to the southern shores of Crete is becoming an increasing source of concern for the government, which expects an intervention from the European Commission.

08.03.2024 / 12:35

Scrapping cotton a ‘red line’ for Thessaly farmers

Some of the proposals for the reconstruction of Thessaly in central Greece by a Dutch team tasked with drafting a master plan, are being met with objections by locals, in particular one to ditch cotton crops.

06.03.2024 / 22:37

Labor program giving people another stab at life

A program launched a year ago providing subsidies to companies to hire former drug addicts, ex-convicts, victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking, and others to assist them in re-entering the labor market has reportedly been crowned with success.

05.03.2024 / 08:30

Personal data breaches come to the fore again

The issue of personal data and how easily it can be leaked has come to the fore again with a conservative MEP allegedly breaking the law.

22.02.2024 / 08:19

Thousands of Greeks abroad register for postal voting

More than 8,000 Greek citizens living abroad have registered on the platform for postal voting within the first two days of its operation, while there is also great interest from domestic voters. Registration for the June 9 European Parliament elections must be completed 40 days in advance, by April 29, 2024. The Interior Ministry will […]

21.02.2024 / 07:23

Irate farmers make their presence felt

Thousands of farmers from throughout Greece drove more than 200 tractors to Athens on Tuesday, intensifying weeks of protests against increasing costs and international competition.

19.02.2024 / 08:06

Farmers in a vicious circle

Thirty years after farmers first started blocking roads with their tractors, little has changed in the primary sector.

16.02.2024 / 07:20

Tractorcade to head to Athens on Tuesday

Charging that the government “did not scrape the bottom of the barrel as it had promised,” farmers on Thursday voted during a nationwide meeting in Nikaia in Larissa to continue their mobilizations and to descend on Athens on Tuesday with their tractors to hold a large-scale rally.