News stories by Apostolis Fotiadis, page 6

The economic crisis is hitting migrants harder than most other people, and it looks set to get worse for them.

The government of the right-wing New Democracy has announced massive security measures that legal experts warn can corrode social and political rights.

For more than a decade migrants and refugees have been landing up at a slum in Patras town in the hope of catching a boat to Italy.

An Albanian group has filed a lawsuit against parallel structures set up to administer ethnic Serbs within Kosovo.

A wave of violent attacks has been rocking Athens ever since the December 2008 riots that broke out after a policeman shot dead a 15-year-old boy.

It was a bus ride from one part of the city to another. Or was it.

Young people took to the streets of Pristina well before midnight brought in the 17th of February and the first anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence. They yelled and danced, waving the Albanian and occasionally the U.S. flags.

The financial meltdown has finally visited Greece. European Commission figures leave no space for political manoeuvring by the Greek government, the usual way to deal with EC control and counsel.

Around midnight Dec. 22, Decheva Elena Kuneva, a Bulgarian living in Greece since 2001, finished her shift and made her way home. For four years she had worked as a cleaner in the city railways, as employee of a company contracted by the public enterprise.