Athens University of Economics and Business

A group of about 40 hooded protesters set fire to garbage dumpsters outside the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) on Wednesday and vandalized some storefronts.

Private labels, once rare in Greece, now occupy a significant space in our refrigerators and cupboards, even in a recovering economy.

A group of about 10 hooded individuals on Wednesday barged into the office of the rector of the Athens University of Economic and Business (AUEB) in central Athens, sprayed slogans on the walls and threw flyers to protest police presence outside the building.

The attack on plainclothes policemen took place on the afternoon of last September 14, only eight days after Hellenic Police (ELAS) had started monitoring the foreigners who were using the main building of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) as their launchpad to sell drugs, contraband cigarettes and imitation brand items on the streets around the university.

The Athens University of Economics and Business has bestowed its annual entrepreneurship award on Byron Nikolaidis, the president of the non-profit Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) and founder/president of PeopleCert.

The Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) has once more called on authorities to crack down on rampant drug dealing and drug use in the institution's neighboring areas.

AUEB suspended its operations for a day earlier this month in protest at the situation, following a decision by the senate.

The Education Ministry clashed with conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday over a recent spike in crime and lawlessness on Greek university campuses. 

The rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) has admitted that the campus is being used by peddlers in counterfeit goods, and especially cigarettes, and that this has been going on for at least a decade.

Only one in two Greek workers has skills that correspond to market needs, with 77 percent of employers saying they have difficulties finding the right employees, according to a study carried out by the Greek office of Ernst & Young, the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Endeavor Greece.