More than 10 surgeons at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg completed last weekend the world’s first uterus transplant surgery from two mothers to their daughters respectively. Headed by Mats Brannstrom, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the university of Gothenburg, the team comprised of 20 scientists, doctors and specialists, including world-renowned Greek professor and transplant [...]
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From Drug Salesman in Greece to School Janitor in Sweden
Under the headline, Jobless Greeks Resolved to Work Clean Toilets in Sweden, the Bloomberg news agency featured the story of Tilemachos Karachalios, a 40-year-old former pharmaceutical salesman in Greece until the economic crisis pushed him to Sweden, where he works as a school janitor. His story mirrors that of many Greeks who have fled their [...]
Sweden’s Job Market Attracts Educated Greeks
The deep financial crisis in Europe has led to more Greek citizens arriving in Sweden to seek employment, with twice as many coming in 2011 compared to the year before, a Swedish newspaper reported, citing figures from the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket.) ”We have a lack of engineers here; there are not enough university-trained engineers [...]
Crisis-Hit Greeks Flock to Sweden
As the economic crisis intensifies in Greece, the number of Greeks coming to Sweden in search of housing and jobs has soared, a leader of the Scandinavian country’s Greek community said Tuesday. “It looks like there will be double the number of Greeks coming this year as last year,” Komninos Chaideftos, the head of the [...]
Author Evgenios Trivizas Nominated for International Children’s Literature Award
The beloved and deeply respected Greek author Evgenios Trivizas was nominated for this year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) for children’s literature for “The Circle of the Greek Children’s Book.” The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is an international children’s literature award, established by the Swedish government in 2002 in honor of Swedish children’s books writer [...]
New Survey Says Greeks Taught Agriculture to Neolithic Scandinavians
A new Swedish-Danish survey shows that agriculture techniques transferred from Southern to Northern Europe gradually. The scientists examined the DNA of four Scandinavian farmers of the Neolithic Age and found that they had more genes in common with inhabitants of the Mediterranean countries, such as Greeks, Cypriots or Sardinians, rather than with Northern people. They [...]
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05 / 17 Greek NGO Organizes ECOWEEK 2013 in Copenhagen
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05 / 17 Sarakatsani at MuCEM
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05 / 17 Greek Tycoon Marchessini’s Rear View Of Women
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05 / 17 Volkan Awarded International Beer Honors
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05 / 17 First Greek Wine Festival in Luxembourg
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08 / 04 Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Reportedly Claims Olympic Flame is Turkish
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01 / 24 Intercultural Association Macedonia Cuts Vasilopita
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07 / 28 IOC President Jacques Rogge Calls London Home of The Olympics; Forgets Greece
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05 / 03 Skopje: Streets Renamed With Ancient Greek Names
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05 / 22 Philip II of Macedonia Statue in Skopje Defies NATO
