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This week's newsletter from AthensLive is out:

* Greece allows banning people with disabilities from public transportation 

* Mini reshuffling of the cabinet

The new year kicked off with a highly discriminatory regulation that allows ‘as an exemption’ for public transportation to deny embarkation to disabled people should those in charge deem it is not safe enough - instead of improving transportation to be accessible to all. There has undoubtedly been some improvement since ancient Sparta times when they were throwing disabled babies in the Kaidas Gorge. 

2024 started with a mini cabinet reshuffle. Our “national” Citizen Protection minister is back in place, while the Health Ministry will be headed by someone who had left too bitter memories from the early memoranda years.  

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This week's newsletter from AthensLive is out:       "Our lives matter" - the train crash that woke up the country after a decade in "shock doctrine" hibernation

*  Too little, too late

*  What Conflict of Interest? The term does not even exist in Greece

*  After many years, Greeks met again on the streets flooding with anger and grief.

- are the main headlines to be found inside this highly informative weekly must-read from and about Greece. This week the whole country took its anger and grief to the streets. On the occasion of the horrific train crash in Tempi on 28 February 23.21, the most massive demonstration since 2015 occurred on Wednesday in Athens, accompanied by protests in 75 cities and towns. The PM apologized for the accident to minimize political damage, and the government tried to appear sad. Yet, the police attacked the demonstrations, and the orchestrated effort against journalists and TV people expressing harsh criticism continued unabated. The government also kept up with breaching the Constitution. Taking advantage of the nation focusing on the horrific event and being collectively traumatized, they proceeded with “business as usual,” tabling anti-popular bills.

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This week’s newsletter from AthensLive is out:

* Novartis scandal supersedes government claims of “Novartis conspiracy.”

* The Greek PM can’t stand proper Parliamentary and journalistic audit

* Greece condemned for the loss of refugee lives in the Aegean

- are the main headlines to be found inside this highly informative weekly must-read from and about Greece.

The Greek government's claims of a “Novartis conspiracy” against them seem to fall into pieces daily. All journalists prosecuted for covering the Novartis scandal were acquitted, while the government officially spread fake news on the court’s decision regarding an ex-minister and an ex-prosecutor. The Greek PM defended his government’s policy on media freedom and migration in the European Parliament. He called on MEPs to be more cautious with NGO reports and not to reiterate Turkish propaganda. The European Court of Human Rights convicted Greece over a refugee boat that sunk in 2014. ND was then in government. And then Maritime Minister Varvitsiotis, who human rights defenders had attacked for handling the case, is now deputy Foreign Minister.

Add to these headlines and main features a lot more overview and details about a variety of aspects of Greece during the week - together with an abundance of links to further reading and to more knowledge about Greece today.

By reading the newsletter - and even better by subscribing or becoming a supporting member - you will also find a lot of links to other sources and to events and developments that you will not otherwise come across. And even if some of them are in Greek only, by using a Translator in your browser, it will be easy to read no matter how familiar you are with the Greek language.

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This week’s newsletter from AthensLive is out:

* Known neo-Nazi's disguised as hooligans murdered a 19-year old * A young skier loses his life because the helicopter came too late * “We don’t decrease fuel special tax because the poor don’t have a car”

- are the main headlines to be found inside this highly informative weekly must-read from and about Greece.

A 19-year-old was cold-bloodedly murdered in Thessaloniki. The motive for the murder appeared to be that he ‘belonged to the wrong football club’. However, it was a murder committed by neo-nazis. A young professional mountaineer who had an accident during climbing lost his life. Because the rescue helicopter came after five hours. While Greeks have gone mad with the price hikes, the deputy minister defends the governmental persistence on not cutting down on the excise due for fuel, because “the poor have no cars.”  

Add to these headlines and main features a lot more overview and details about a variety of aspects of Greece during the week - together with an abundance of links to further reading and to more knowledge about Greece today.

By reading the newsletter - and even better by subscribing or becoming a supporting member - you will also find a lot of links to other sources and to events and developments that you will not otherwise come across. And even if some of them are in Greek only, by using a Translator in your browser, it will be easy to read no matter how familiar you are with the Greek language.

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This week’s newsletter - the first one in 2022 -  from AthensLive is out: * A very strange welcoming of the New Year * Hospitals on the verge of collapse * New Year’s censorship?

- are the main headlines to be found inside this highly informative weekly must-read from and about Greece. Greece welcomed the New Year as queues for Covid19 tests grew long after cases skyrocketed. Amidst the public debate over the cost of PCR, a Greek Minister caused a row with Cyprus. As infections spread among staff, the situation in public hospitals becomes even more desperate. Reports on medicine shortages come on top of allegations that hospital staff are advised not to take tests so that they don’t have to take a sick leave. Finally, the year started with alleged censorship incidents. That is certainly not a good omen.   Add to these headlines and main features a lot more overview and details about a variety of aspects of Greece during the week - together with an abundance of links to further reading and to more knowledge about Greece today.

By reading the newsletter - and even better by subscribing or becoming a supporting member - you will also find a lot of links to other sources and to events and developments that you will not otherwise come across. And even if some of them are in Greek only, by using a Translator in your browser, it will be easy to read no matter how familiar you are with the Greek language.

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Greece’s Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis has threatened merchants that the fines for masks price-gouging will be extraordinary high. At the same time, he claimed that had the state paid for free Rapid tests for all, the country would go bankrupt.

Speaking to Skai TV on Saturday, the minister said that there have been reported cases of price-gouging in protective masks, especially the KN95, since the government made them mandatory in supermarkets and public transport means since the Christmas Eve.