IOANNA FOTIADI

Seeking the right tourism job

“Summer job Mykonos,” “Hotel maid” – such phrases are systematically repeated by Greek users during their searches on the internet.

Violence extending across society

Wives and partners murdered, children neglected and youngsters wielding pocket knives are becoming an all too common narrative, according to experts, noting that violence extends across the whole spectrum of Greek society – in work relationships, at school and in neighborhoods.

21.11.2022 / 09:59

The Germans are coming, for the warm winters

The energy crisis and the quality of life are causing a wave of relocations to Crete for temporary or permanent residence.

16.10.2022 / 15:37

Flower shops wilting since start of Ukraine war

Since the start of the war in Ukraine the prices of imported flowers have jumped, discouraging potential customers, flower shop owners and staff tell Kathimerini.

11.10.2022 / 12:51

Alleged child rapist, pimp to testify on Wednesday

A 53-year-old shopkeeper accused of repeatedly raping and pimping out a 12-year-old girl has been given until noon Wednesday to testify after appearing before an investigating magistrate.

06.10.2022 / 09:23

Cohabitation contracts jumped 28.5 pct in 2021

Cohabitation agreements, which grant couples living together similar rights to those who are married, gained ground in 2021, with the country’s statistics agency ELSTAT reporting an increase of 28.5 percent last year compared to 2020.

08.08.2022 / 16:01

Athens-Boston tickets selling ‘like hotcakes’

Katerina Makatouni landed in Athens feeling refreshed and ready to adapt to the local time zone, one of thousands of passengers enjoying the ease of traveling directly from Boston in the United States to the Greek capital.

30.06.2022 / 20:10

Personal doctors become reality as of July 1

The concept of a “personal doctor” becomes a reality as of Friday, as private doctors of different specializations will have the opportunity to register for the program on the online social insurance platform IDIKA.

29.06.2022 / 14:10

Infections surge past 20,000 as expert warns of very high transmissibility

Greece’s health authorities reported 20,084 new infections on Tuesday, as the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 continued to drive the sixth wave of the Covid pandemic in the country.

27.06.2022 / 21:07

Experts appeal to individual responsibility

Amid the latest jump in coronavirus cases, health experts are renewing their appeal to people to act responsibly.

26.06.2022 / 13:53

State must start taking ownership of SNFCC

Governments “need to help” the state take responsibility for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), which is still being propped up by emergency funding from the foundation even though the multi-million-euro facility was donated to the Greek state in 2017, SNF President Andreas Dracopoulos said in Athens on Friday.

26.05.2022 / 09:11

The Anatolian Greeks who settled in the US

“There was Antonis, a man who emigrated to America from Greece, who thought he was a ‘real Greek’ and that everyone from Alatsata [present-day Alacati] and Asia Minor were inferior. Antonis worked in a restaurant, and he made a point of letting people like my uncle and other ‘Ottoman Greeks,’ as he called them, in only through the south door, which was for Blacks.”

28.04.2022 / 08:20