Greece

New legislation that includes harsher penalties for individuals and political parties who engage in racist acts or incite racist violence is to be discussed in Parliament on August 26, following months of delays. The anti-racism bill was first submitted to...

Nearly three years after it was first brought to parliament, Greek MPs are poised to pass an anti-racism bill which human rights groups say still falls far short of dealing with an epidemic of racist and homophobic violence in the...

In a written statement, Greek historians and academics expressed their reservations towards a certain article of the anti-racism bill that was presented and voted by the Greek Parliament. The bill aims to outlaw anyone who denies the Holocaust and...

Human Rights Watch, a leading international nongovernmental advocacy group, on Tuesday called for Greek lawmakers to strengthen legislation meant to combat racism and xenophobia. “Greece has failed countless victims of racist and xenophobic attacks by neither investigating nor prosecuting the...

Greece's coalition government, led by Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras, has cracked in a dispute over an anti-racism bill aimed at controlling the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party whose members have been accused of attacks on...

Greece's coalition government is sharply divided over an anti-racism bill that is aimed at controlling the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party by imposing stricter penalties for assaults, primarily on immigrants, of which the extremists have been accused but which it...

An internal investigation is underway to look into the allegations that four Greek officers mistreated an elderly female migrant at the Moria hotspot on Lesvos. The allegations of improper treatment have come about following the officers appearing in a video...

The "I am more leftist than thou" game between Greek cabinet members continues as new Education Minister Nikos Filis tries to outdo his predecessor in refusing the importance of the Pontic Genocide. There is no other reason to explain Filis'...

A Nigerian doctor who has been living and working in Greece for the last 14 years was the victim of a verbal and racist attack from a patient in Kozani, northern Greece. Dr Solace Akpevwe Godwin was on call when...

Resistance to jihad terror and Islamic supremacism is being criminalized in Greece, claims the website Jihadwatch.org. According to the site, which quotes the sermon of a prominent Greek bishop, Islamic supremacists cannily use charges of “racism” to demonize and marginalize all those...

Fifty-Seven-year-old Greek doctor, Costas Kastaniotis was convicted to a 16-month prison term and a 3 year suspension because he violated the anti-racism law. In particular, he was accused of putting a sign up outside his office that read “Jews...

Bishop Seraphim of Piraeus sent a letter to the Deputy Prime Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, asking him not to include same-sex couples in the cohabitation agreement. The Bishop marked that it would be an insult against God. Among others, the Bishop...

Greece will not change unless it takes on populism and extremism, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a meeting of his New Democracy party political committee. “You cannot change a country if you do not fight and win the battle of...

The spokesman and a Member of Parliament for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Ilias Kasidiaris, whipped up controversy while addressing the body after he suggested that he - like his party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos -  is a Holocaust denier. During...

With Greece's coalition government already split over an anti-racism bill, the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) threw a monkey wrench into the works when it withdrew its support and put forward its own version. That angered the...