Karolina Tagaris
@tagaris
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Journalist | formerly longtime Reuters correspondent in Greece
Greece
Joined April 2010
We reported on falling birthrates from a remote corner in northern #Greece where the absence of youth is unmissable. Several things struck me, but most of all, the silence. Here’s our story on a losing battle:
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As much of Europe struggles with tumbling birthrates that experts say threaten long-term economic wellbeing, Greece is a stark example of how hard it will be to reverse the trend.
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Hundreds of small quakes in Santorini have renewed concerns about the safety of decades-long cliffside construction. Experts have long questioned the sustainability of the tourism boom on the Greek island, where an emergency was declared due to the tremors https://t.co/Y7xs7lJZV4
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Since 1964, water from Bulgaria's mountains flowed freely along the Arda River into the Evros plain in Northern Greece. But the World War Two reparations agreement expired and famers, who rely on the deal, are fearful their livelihoods are under threat https://t.co/ofHYnmhNE7
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From beneath #Greece’s shrinking Lake Mornos, the muddied remains of homes reemerge nearly 45 years since the village that once stood here disappeared underwater, as #climate change dries up Athens’s main water reservoirs. Read & watch our story 👇🏻
After a winter of hardly any snow, a summer of punishing heatwaves and months of little rain and drought across much of Greece, Lake Mornos, which supplies water for nearly half the Greek population, has dwindled to its lowest level in decades https://t.co/nbE5UDwycM
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The Olympics Opening Ceremony 20 years ago in Greece
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“In real life too, we put on a show,“ one of the men said. “Life is theatre too.” In a Greek jail, inmates find freedom in theatre 📸 @SteliosMisinas
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The performers are inmates at Greece's maximum-security jail, and so is the audience.
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Ishaan Al-Rahil was never found when a migrant boat bound for Europe sank off Greece last year, killing hundreds. That doesnt stop him appearing in his children's dreams, proffering gifts from the land of supposed plenty @MaltezouRenee @tagaris @GebeilyM
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Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed with migrants capsized off Greece a year ago, killing hundreds in one of the...
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“Maybe he went to heaven,” said Fatima, whose husband Ihsaan went missing in one of the Med’s deadliest shipwrecks off #Pylos. “But we’re still here. We are the victims." A year after #Greece migrant boat tragedy, answers and justice still out of reach
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Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed with migrants capsized off Greece a year ago, killing hundreds in one of the...
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"Traffickers? No, no, no, no - that's not how it is at all." The story of Ahmed Akwrab,who thought his ordeal was over last June when he survived one of the Med’s deadliest shipwrecks & finally set foot in Europe only to face a life sentence in Greece.He was freed in May #pylos
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On a Greek island, volunteers remake burial site for refugees lost at sea https://t.co/GMOkYK4fTe
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With Greece set to unveil a plan to tackle tumbling birthrates, one village reveals the magnitude of the problem: emptying schools; shuttered businesses; overgrown playgrounds; and the silence left by its vanished youth @tagaris
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As much of Europe struggles with tumbling birthrates that experts say threaten long-term economic wellbeing, Greece is a stark example of how hard it will be to reverse the trend.
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“If you’re happy, have found love, are surrounded by good people, doing what you like, and giving back to others, that’s success. Selling your soul for a buck is not worth the real price you pay." —the inimitable Iris Apfel. Rest in peace.
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Flooded Greek lake a warning to European farmers battling climate change
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Sitting in a small motorboat, farmer Babis Evangelinos glides over land he once cultivated on the Thessaly plain in central Greece, the nearby trunks of his fruitless almond trees submerged by...
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When floodwaters gushed through the Greek farming village of Metamorfosi in September, residents fled. Now they want to relocate their entire community, terrified it cannot survive another bout of extreme weather driven by climate change https://t.co/UieSeZftBk
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@reuterspictures by Alexandros Avramidis. Read our story here: https://t.co/khIJSv7sSi 9/
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As he checked his irrigation sprinkler swept a block away by flood water, farmer Thanasis Tsoukalas saw no alternative. "We grew up here, we were born here, our parents' graves are here. But safety comes first. You cannot live with this insecurity all the time." 8/
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"We didn't wake up one morning and say let's relocate. It came from the nightmarish scenes we lived through that night," said Petros Kontogiannis, the community president. 7/
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