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Greeks are among the Europeans with the highest risk of social exclusion and poverty according to the latest data from Eurostat. Per the report, the highest shares of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion were recorded in Romania (34%), Bulgaria (32%), Greece and Spain (both 28%). In 2021, 95.4 million people in the EU, […]
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Greeks at greater risk of poverty and social exclusion; 70 million Europeans affected
September 19th, 2022 
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No Comments »At what age do Greeks generally leave the family home?
September 8th, 2022 Awake Goy Although the average age for young people leaving home in the EU sits at 26.5 years, in Greece, Portugal, Croatia young men and women are leaving home at much older ages per the 2021 data from Eurostat. According to the data, the oldest average ages, all at 30 years or higher, were recorded in Portugal […]
Why Greeks, Armenians Rally Against Trump’s Ally Dr. Oz
September 5th, 2022 Awake Goy Greek and Armenian organizations in the US have joined forces to prevent Dr. Mehmet Oz, an ally of former President Donald Trump, to win a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. The #StopOz campaign was launched by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) recently. The campaign includes a video […]
Smyrna is burning: Remembering the unforgettable homelands of the Greeks
September 1st, 2022 Awake Goy On August 31, 1922, Kemal’s army wanted to destroy everything Greek that existed in the capital of Ionia. Smyrna is burning. The burning of the Ionian capital is one of the many crimes against humankind and civilization committed by the Turks during their history. The protagonist of the Asia Minor tragedy was a venerable hierarch […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: burning, Greeks, homeland’s, remembering, smyrna, unforgettable No Comments »Erdoğan says Greeks have a “vile character”; Bahçeli threatens Greece with war
August 30th, 2022 Awake Goy Recep Tayyip Erdoğan went on a new tirade of extreme provocation, finding the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Disaster to send a special message to ultra-nationalist crowds. He launched a direct attack against the Greeks, proceeding with a historical retrospective, while he did not miss the opportunity to bring his neo-Ottoman […]
Greek Australian Theodosis believed he was aiding his fellow Greeks to fight fires, but his selfless act ended up in Athens’s hardest prison
August 11th, 2022 Awake Goy Australian-born Theodosis Kakouris decided to volunteer to help fight the wildfires in Attica, Greece, back in August 2021, but his selfless act cost him a lengthy stint in jail. Not only did his efforts remain recognised, but he also ended up being arrested as a suspect for arson. Mr Kakouris was remanded in custody for… […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: aiding, Australian, believed, fellow, greek, Greeks, theodosis No Comments »How Greeks celebrate Dekapentavgoustos in Greece
August 11th, 2022 Awake Goy Dekapentavgoustos in Greece If you are looking for the liveliest time to be in Greece, Dekapentavgoustos (August 15th) should be on top of your list. Marking the Assumption of the Virgin Mary — one of the largest religious celebrations in the country— this period also hosts some of the greatest Panigiria (festivals). Greeks from Athens,… […]
Glamorous Mykonos party: Greeks, Arabs and Israelis pay €1,500 a ticket to see Remos and others
July 29th, 2022 Awake Goy It was already dawn on the beach of Psaros in Mykonos when the wild party with Antonis Remos ended and the guests rose from the tables to return to their luxurious apartments, villas and hotels. In the end, they already enjoyed an eight-hour concert in the famous Nammos, where the popular Greek artist returned after… […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: arabs, glamorous, Greeks, israelis, mykonos, party, ticket No Comments »Greeks, Cypriots of Australia Call on PM Morrison to Recognize Genocide
January 14th, 2022 Awake Goy Greeks, Armenians, and other Christians were the victims of genocide carried out by the Ottomans in the period 1913-1923. Public Domain The Greek and Cypriot communities in Australia urged Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday to recognize the genocide carried out against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and other Christian minorities by the Ottomans in the early […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Australia, cypriots, Genocide, Greeks, morrison, recognize No Comments »Ancient Greeks Did Not Practice Infanticide Widely, Says Latest Study
December 13th, 2021 Awake Goy “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth,” is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. One such lie has been the notion that Ancient Greeks regularly practiced infanticide by killing off weak babies, the disabled, the lowborn, and the sickly. Now, a new study published in JSTOR’s Hesperia […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancient, Greeks, infanticide, latest, practice, study, widely No Comments »Greeks of Ethiopia Remain Calm Despite Conflict in the North
December 10th, 2021 Awake Goy The Greek Community of Ethiopia celebrated OXI Day prior to an advisory issued by the Greek Foreign Ministry. Credit: Meta/FaceBook/Archdiocese of Aksum Ethiopia The Greeks of Ethiopia remain calm but on alert should evacuation be necessary as the armed conflict in the northern region of the country rages for more than a year. In early […]
Greeks hold peaceful march on deadly uprising anniversary
November 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Some 20,000 people marched peacefully through Athens on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of a bloody anti-dictatorship uprising in 1973, police said. More than 5,000 police were deployed to keep order, as violence involving anarchist demonstrators has often marred the annual march to the U.S. Embassy. The event went ahead despite restrictions related to the […]
The Proud Greeks of Tashkent, Uzbekistan
November 15th, 2021 Awake Goy The Greek community in Tashkent celebrates the 200th anniversary of the War of Independence. Credit: Greek Cultural Center Tucked away among Central Asia’s rolling deserts and sand dunes, in the eastern part of Uzbekistan is a small community of people, vestiges of Cold War politics, the Greeks of Tashkent. By Christianna Kontou A Greek diaspora […]
Registration on Electoral Lists of Greeks Residing Abroad Begins
October 21st, 2021 Awake Goy The platform for Greeks residing abroad to register for the Greek elections is now open. Credit: Ministry of Interior Greeks who reside abroad but have lived in Greece for two years in the last 35 years can register to vote in national elections via an online platform activated recently, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: abroad, begins, electoral, Greeks, lists, registration, residing No Comments »The Greeks of Venezuela in the Era of Maduro
October 1st, 2021 Awake Goy The crisis in Venezuela began during the government of Hugo Chávez and has continued with his successor Nicolás Maduro. Credit: Wikimedia/Барвенковский/CC-BY-4.0 Living in Venezuela today is not easy. The country, once the richest in Latin America, but today is undergoing a great crisis, the largest and most devastating on the continent in many years, affecting […]
The Hellenic Initiative Offers Cash Prizes to Greeks Making a Difference
September 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Credit: Nenad Stojkovic/ CC BY 2.0 The Hellenic Initiative, or THI, is offering support to Greek entrepreneurs hoping to make a positive impact on the world through their second annual Venture Impact Awards (VIA). Last year, during the first iteration of VIA, the Initiative’s newest program, THI offered cash prizes amounting to $250,000 to 14 […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: difference, Greeks, hellenic, initiative, making, offers, prizes No Comments »The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?
September 8th, 2021 Awake Goy In his story of Atlantis, written at around 360 BC, Plato mentioned a grand island or continent across the Atlantic, one larger than Libya and Asia combined. This continent was so enormous, he said, “it encompassed (wrapped around) that veritable ocean”. Is it possible that Plato was talking about the American continent and not that […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: america, ancient, discovered, Greeks, hyperborea, legendary, really No Comments »Chaotic Scenes in Athens as Greeks Protest Tyranny
August 31st, 2021 Awake Goy On Sunday, protesters in Athens clashed with police against mandatory vaccination measures that go into effect on Sept. 1. Police estimate about 8,000 people attended the rally in Syntagma Square, the central square of Athens, chanting anti-vaxx slogans and demanding government officials reverse mandatory vaccinations for all health workers that begins Wednesday. At […]
The Day the First Greeks Arrived in Australia
August 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Greek immigrants on their way to Australia in 1953. Credit: Public Domain It was a day much like any other, on August 27, 1829 when the first-ever recorded Greeks set foot on the continent of Australia. They were seven convicted pirates who had plied their trade on the Mediterranean Sea and had been forced to serve […]
Creating a Virtual Community of Greeks in Japan
July 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Tokyo with Mt. Fuji in the background. Credit: Morio/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Japan is one of the most populated countries in the world, with a population numbering over 126 million. Increasingly, immigrants have flocked to Japan, including many Greeks. Forming a new life and community in a foreign country often proves very difficult, and […]
