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Eleni Stamatoukou
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(Data)Journalist | Greece Correspondent at Balkan Insight| Lede Programme alumni | Main Interests: Balkans, Cultural Heritage, Organised Crime, Human Rights, Corruption, Environment, Health, Media + Music | Posts in English & Greek | Posts are my own |
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The Swiss Franc Borrowers Association in #Greece filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court on Friday against three unnamed major banks, claiming loans made in Swiss francs had unfair exchange-rate terms and that borrowers were not clearly informed or properly warned before signing.
Greek Swiss Franc Borrowers Challenge Three Big Banks
Swiss franc loan borrowers in Greece filed a lawsuit against three major banks, requesting that their loans be recalculated at the original disbursement rate.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
aheleni.bsky.social
🚜 Οι Έλληνες αγρότες μπλοκάρουν δρόμους και σύνορα.
Με κόστος παραγωγής στα ύψη, καθυστερήσεις στις επιδοτήσεις και μαζικές απώλειες σε ζώα & καλλιέργειες, η αγροτική Ελλάδα φτάνει στα όριά της.

balkaninsight.com/2025/12/04/g...
Greek Farmers Block Roads as Costs and Culls Hit Rural Livelihoods
Greek farmers are blocking roads and customs points to press their demands for state aid, tax breaks, and a plan for ‘tomorrow’ for a sector in crisis.
balkaninsight.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
aheleni.bsky.social
With #Piraeusport already in Chinese hands and the US funding #Elefsina’s expansion, experts warn: #Greece must tread carefully to protect its strategic autonomy.

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‘De-Risking?’ Port Investments Put Greece at Centre of US-China Rivalry
With Piraeus port already in Chinese hands and the US bankrolling an expansion of Elefsina, experts argue that Greece must be careful to defend its strategic autonomy.
balkaninsight.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
aheleni.bsky.social
A ninety-something retired merchant is still guarding the keys to the oldest #Jewishcemetery in Europe — and with them, centuries of Jewish life, culture and history in #Greece

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The Keyholder: Guarding the Secrets of a Greek City’s Ancient Jewish Cemetery
A retired merchant in his nineties holds the keys to the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe - and to centuries of Jewish history in Greece.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Κάνουμε έρευνα στο #BalkanInsight για την #εμμηνόπαυση στην #Ελλάδα και θα θέλαμε να σας ζητήσουμε, αν μπορείτε, να αφιερώσετε λίγο από τον χρόνο σας, για να απαντήσετε στο ερωτηματολόγιο που έχουμε ετοιμασεί -μπορείτε να το βρείτε στο παρακάτων λινκ:

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Share Your Experience: Menopause Taboos in Greece
In Greece, the menopause is rarely discussed in public, leaving some women to go through it without adequate advice and support. We want to hear if this has affected you – and how.
balkaninsight.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by Eleni Stamatoukou
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David Bowie, Madison Avenue, New York City, 1983, by Art Zelin.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
aheleni.bsky.social
A court in #Greece found 14 defendants guilty of illegally receiving EU agricultural subsidies in 2020 via the Greek Payment Authority for Common Agricultural Policy Aid Schemes, known as #OPEKEPE.

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Greece Convicts 14 for Illegally Receiving EU Agriculture Subsidies
Athens court imposes suspended jail sentences on 14 people found guilty of fraudulently obtaining EU farming subsidies.
balkaninsight.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
aheleni.bsky.social
🌀 Ένας μινωικός «λαβύρινθος» 4.000 ετών βρέθηκε στον Λόφο Παπούρα στην Κρήτη — και ήδη κινδυνεύει, καθώς το σημείο έχει επιλεγεί για το ραντάρ του νέου αεροδρομίου.
💪 Η τοπική κοινωνία παλεύει για την προστασία του.
Θα σωθεί ή θα θυσιαστεί για την «ανάπτυξη»;
#savepapoura
Greeks Raise Fears for Ancient ‘Labyrinth’ at Site of Planned Crete Airport Radar
The Greek government says an airport radar installation on a Cretan hilltop won’t harm a recently discovered Proto-Minoan labyrinth-like monument at the same site, but local authorities and residents ...
balkaninsight.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
aheleni.bsky.social
🌀 A 4,000-year-old Minoan “labyrinth” found on Papoura Hill in #Crete, #Greece is already at risk — it lies where the new airport radar is planned.
💪 Locals are fighting to protect it.
Will it be saved or sacrificed for “development”?
#savepapoura
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November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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🚂 The people spoke — and won!
Thanks to #ELLET, and the assembly of the Technical Chamber of #Greece, the plan now includes a study to reopen the #Peloponneserailway, not just a bike path.
✌️ A first victory for the #train’s return!
balkaninsight.com/2025/11/06/g...
Greeks Hope to Ride Abandoned Scenic Railway Once Again
A Greek-Swiss initiative seeks to reopen the historic Peloponnese Railway to boost tourism and generate income for locals – but is the project really practical?
balkaninsight.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
aheleni.bsky.social
🚂 Οι πολίτες μίλησαν — και πέτυχαν!
Χάρη στην κινητοποίηση της κοινωνίας και της #ΕΛΛΕΤ, το #ΤΕΕ πρόσθεσε μελέτη για την επαναλειτουργία του σιδηροδρόμου Πελοποννήσου στον διαγωνισμό που προέβλεπε μόνο ποδηλατόδρομο.
✌️ Μια πρώτη νίκη για όσους πιστεύουν ότι ο #σιδηρόδρομος αξίζει δεύτερη ευκαιρία!
Greeks Hope to Ride Abandoned Scenic Railway Once Again
A Greek-Swiss initiative seeks to reopen the historic Peloponnese Railway to boost tourism and generate income for locals – but is the project really practical?
balkaninsight.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#GreekPolice have dismantled a large-scale criminal organization exploiting #EUagriculturalfunds. The group falsely registered undeclared agricultural plots and pastures, often through third parties, to claim subsidies.

balkaninsight.com/2025/10/23/g...
Greek Police Reveal EU Agricultural Subsidy Fraud Network’s Scam System
After arresting 37 people all over the country, police explained how an organised crime group staged a sophisticated fraud to illegally obtain millions of euros in EU agricultural subsidies.
balkaninsight.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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💉Greek #farmers urge #vaccination as #SheepPox spreads

🐐🐑Over 327,000 animals culled.

🇬🇷 #Athens resists EU-backed vaccination, citing #trade limits — and no EU country has yet tested a sheeppox vaccine.

#Greece

balkaninsight.com/2025/10/20/g...
Greek Farmers Demand Sheeppox Vaccine Amid ‘Devastating’ Livestock Cull
Hundreds of thousands of sheep and goats have been culled in Greece in a bid to halt the spread of a pox outbreak, devastating the livestock industry; despite EU recommendations, the government is ref...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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The Greek parliament on Thursday passed a controversial labour bill allowing the working day to be extended up to 13 hours, despite opposition from unions, who went on a 24-hour strike this week, arguing that the legislation legalises "overexploitation".

balkaninsight.com/2025/10/14/g...
Greeks Strike Over Bill Allowing 13-Hour Working Day
Unions say new bill allowing more flexible working hours will, in effect, abolish the traditional eight-hour working day – and worsen the exploitation of workers.
balkaninsight.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Public and private-sector workers, labour federations and unions in #Greece went on a 24-hour #strike demanding the withdrawal of a new bill that allows for a 13-hour working day. Protests were also organised in #Athens and #Thessaloniki, in northern Greece.

balkaninsight.com/2025/10/14/g...
Greeks Strike Over Bill Allowing 13-Hour Working Day
Unions say new bill allowing more flexible working hours will, in effect, abolish the traditional eight-hour working day – and worsen the exploitation of workers.
balkaninsight.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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For 23 days, #PanosRuci went on #hungerstrike outside the Greek Parliament, demanding truth for his son lost in the 2023 #Tempi #traincrash.

On Oct 7, he won — the case will reopen.
“We won a battle… but we have a long way to go.”

#Greece

balkaninsight.com/2025/10/10/u...
‘Until the End’: Bereaved Greek Father Forces State U-Turn on Tempi Tragedy
A 23-day hunger strike by a Greek man who lost his son to the 2023 Tempi train crash in Greece has forced an apparent U-turn by authorities on the issue of toxicology tests on the 57 people who died.
balkaninsight.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Reposted by Eleni Stamatoukou
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🚨Hollywood producer Robert Simonds of STX Entertainment, together with a group of 🇺🇸US private investors, has taken over #spyware vendor NSO Group to “save it from debt and help rescue it from the US Dept. of Commerce’s blacklisting,” 🇮🇱 business outlet Globes reports.
www.globes.co.il/news/article...
חוב של מאות מיליונים נמחק: הניסיון החדש להציל את NSO | בלעדי
 
www.globes.co.il
October 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Police said on Thursday that they have dismantled a criminal gang which specialised in trafficking Nepalese men to be exploited for agricultural labour in #Greece.

#Greekpolice #humantrafficking

Read more:
balkaninsight.com/2025/10/09/g...
Greece Busts Human Traffickers for Exploiting Nepalese Migrant Workers
Greek police busted a Pakistani human trafficking group exploiting Nepalese agricultural migrant workers who were allegedly forced into debt, given exhausting tasks, threatened and sometimes physicall...
balkaninsight.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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#AlexisTsipras’s resignation coincides with the imminent appearance of his new book. Greek commentators are more interested in what he will do next. But they are in no doubt that his departure is a major blow for the Greek left-wing party of #SYRIZA.

balkaninsight.com/2025/10/08/g...
Greece’s Leftist Ex-PM Alexis Tsipras Leaps into Political Unknown
The resignation of former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as an MP with the SYRIZA party delivered a heavy blow to the left-wing force he once led - and opened the way for him to set up his own pa...
balkaninsight.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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1/2 27 Greek citizens who participated in the #GlobalSumudFlotilla aid mission to #Gaza that was intercepted by the Israeli navy last week "safely arrived in Athens” after being deported on a flight on Monday, said the Greek Foreign Ministry.
October 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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1/2 #AlexisTsipras, Greek MP, former prime minister and ex-leader of the left-wing #SYRIZA party, submitted his resignation as a SYRIZA MP on Monday in a letter to the parliament speaker – although he is not quitting politics or leaving the party itself.

#Greece #GreekParliament
Endless Turmoil Threatens Greece’s SYRIZA Party With Extinction
The left-wing party remains the main opposition force in the Greek parliament – but serial battles over policy and leadership and an ongoing identity crisis are pushing it towards oblivion, experts wa...
balkaninsight.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Greek, Turkish, Serbian and Bulgarian citizens are among the activists who have been detained by the Israeli Navy following its raid on vessels participating in the #globalsumudflotilla, which was transporting #humanitarianaid to #Gaza. After being detained, they are expected to be deported.
Balkan Activists Detained as Israel Intercepts Gaza Aid Flotilla
Activists from several Balkan countries have been detained as Israeli forces raided the Global Sumud Flotilla, a convoy of vessels which was trying to deliver humanitarian aid to war-ravaged Gaza.
balkaninsight.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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"Ούτε αυτή τη φορά προηγήθηκε ένας αυστηρός και ανεξάρτητος έλεγχος για το αν τα εισοδήματα και τα περιουσιακά στοιχεία των πολιτικών είναι πράγματι αυτά που δηλώνουν, όπως δεν έχει γίνει ουσιαστικός έλεγχος για τον τρόπο κτήσης τους."

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Της Βασιλικής Σιούτη | LiFO
Το πόθεν έσχες των πολιτικών ως λαϊκό ανάγνωσμα αντί για εργαλείο διαφάνειας και λογοδοσίας.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM