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ProGreece Internet Platform Nearly Set

The Internet platform ProGreece will be ready for use by June, officials said. ProGreece is an interactive social network for German and Greek companies. The aim of this network is to match Greek companies’ excess capacities with German demand to initiate manufacturing and service agreements and to support trade between the two countries. More than [...]

Children’s Book Week in Munich

Storyteller Evi Gerokosta was spotted late April in Munich on a secret mission. With the help of Panagiotis Michailidis, the so-called captain Panagos broke into the classrooms of the Greek schools of Munich and Dachau, facilitating the “entrance” of infinite tales! All this occurred in the Children’s Book Week, which was organized for the twelfth [...]

Greek Immigrants To Germany Up 43%

The scale of Greece’s crushing economic crisis and unrelenting austerity measures is showing in how many people are fleeing the country in search of work and a better life elsewhere, particularly Germany. The number of Greek immigrants to Germany soared 43 percent in 2012, according to data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, which [...]

Neo-Nazis Tried For Killing Greek, Turkish Migrants

The trial of a group of German neo-Nazis accused of involvement in the murder of nine immigrants and a policewoman was to begin on May 6 in a high-tension atmosphere and a case that has gripped public attention. Beate Zschape, the alleged ringleader of the National Socialist Underground, will face charges with four others in [...]

Greece Won’t Get Back on its Feet

German author Günter Gras, awarded with the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, highly criticized Angela Merkel and her government for their position regarding the European crisis. In his interview to the German TV station Phoenix, Gras said, “I consider it a disgrace, when Germany, as a heavily indebted country forces other countries to follow a [...]

Hamburg Demonstration in Solidarity For Greece

According to Hamburger Abendblatt, a demonstration in solidarity for Greece took place on April 27 in the German city of Hamburg. About 900 people, the majority of whom were leftists, gathered at the occupied theater Rote Flora in Hamburg under the slogan, “For the social uprising! Solidarity to self-organized struggles in Greece and worldwide! For [...]