SOCIETY

Rescuing an ancient Greek dialect
SOCIETY

It has no writing system but it is spoken, mainly by elderly Muslim women in the Trabzon (Trebizond, historically) region in northern Turkey by a population that ranges between 4,000 and 8,000 people, according to estimates.


The mixer of ruthless demagoguery
OPINION

“We have said that we want gun ownership for the Greek man, training for the Greek woman, for everyone,” the leader of the nationalist Greek Solution party, Kyriakos Velopoulos, said in an interview with state-run broadcaster ERT.

Unemployed Valkyries?
OPINION

The Valkyries would have been in the unemployment fund if they lived in modern times. No object and no purpose.


‘How come you speak Greek? Can I touch your hair?’
SOCIETY

Grace Nwoke and her cousin Precious Obenaia were born and raised in the central Athens neighborhood of Patissia, where they lived undocumented with their families. Now they are trying to gather the entire African community of Athens on an online platform.

€89 mln disbursed to beneficiaries this week
ECONOMY

A total of 89,328,030 euros will be disbursed to 80,380 beneficiaries from March 11 to 15 as part of the scheduled payments of Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (e-ΕFΚΑ) and the Public Employment Service (DYPA).


Greece at rock bottom in social housing
SOCIETY

When a law abolishing the Workers’ Housing Organization was passed in 2012 as part of a package of stringent austerity measures, Greece gave up the last tool of state intervention in the real estate market. So long as the rate of homeownership remained high, the recession continued to suppress property prices […]

‘Love wins’ say Greek lesbian couple as they wed at last
SOCIETY

Α calendar reminder shone up on Danai Deligeorges’ phone on Thursday evening: “Wedding,” the message said. She turned, smiling, to her partner Alexia Beziki. “Are you ready?” Beziki asked, before the couple kissed and started to prepare.



Silent indifference: A reflection on society’s apathy
OPINION

There is a video circulating on the internet. In the video you can see a classroom, a professor and students sitting. The professor asks a student to leave the class. The girl, confused, asks why, while the professor gets stern and repeats that she has to leave. The student stands up and leaves. No one […]

Breakthroughs in social policy
OPINION

Social policy and the welfare state comprise the greatest social – and political – accomplishment of the Metapolitefsi and of this democracy. Every government from 1974 onward strengthened the country’s social policy – some to a greater, others to a lesser degree.


Ιt takes a village and €233,000 to raise a child in Greece
IN DEPTH

It takes a village to raise a child, as the old African proverb goes. But what happens when you need to hire – and, of course, pay for – that village? It is currently estimated that it costs around €13,000 per year to raise a child in Greece.