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Takis Baltakos, former cabinet secretary and righthand man of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, is planning to create a new rightwing political force that could include "serious" figures from Golden Dawn, a Sunday newspaper has reported. Baltakos was forced to resign...

Former cabinet secretary Takis Baltakos, who resigned after his secret talks with Golden Dawn members were revealed on video tape, presages the formation of a new political party. Talking to Star television channel, Baltakos said that the party will be called...

Former Greek cabinet secretary Panayiotis Baltakos, who was forced to resign over a video showing him in friendly talks with a Golden Dawn MP, has mooted a merger between the conservative ruling New Democracy and the neo-nazi ultranationalist Golden...

  Another poll, this time after the incident with the video of New Democracy MP Takis Baltakos and Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris, shows the impact that these revelations had on the voting intentions of the Greek people both for...

Former cabinet secretary Takis Baltakos told Greek reporters that he was, is and always will be part of New Democracy as he left the prosecutor’s office Monday, after delivering testimony about the controversial video that cost him his job in which he was seen in...

The British newspaper “The Guardian” published an article entitled “Greek prime minister facing resignation calls after aide's Golden Dawn gaffe,” which went on to explain the repercussions of the Baltakos scandal. The article, written by the newspaper's correspondent in Athens,...

Former Greek premier George Papandreou said Prime Minister Antonis Samaras can't settle for the resignation of his top aide who reportedly told the spokesman for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party the Premier tried to influence the judiciary and trumped...

"National Unity" is the name of the new party that was presented by Giorgos Karatzaferis and Takis Baltakos. The leader of the new party will be Karatzaferis, while Baltakos will be its secretary. "National Unity's" logo will be a torch. Both...

The Greek Parliament's Ethics Committee decided Thursday to propose to the plenum the lifting of immunity for extreme-right Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) party MPs Constantinos Barbaroussis and Elias Panagiotaros over the case of gunshots fired during the funeral of...

The three-day parliamentary debate ended tonight with the majority of MPs voting in favor of the Greek coalition government. 155 MPs voted "yes," 131 voted "no" and 2 voted "present." As the parliamentary debate over the vote of confidence began, internal divisions within...

The Parliament’s second summer session has postponed the discussion regarding the anti-racism bill for one week, after the request of Greece 's Justice Minister Charalambos Athanassiou. Meanwhile, former chamber secretary Takis Baltakos stated that this anti-racism bill is unconstitutional and...

Despina Kontarakis, editor of the Greek newspaper Eleftheros Typos was arrested after a lawsuit by the member of the Independent Greeks party (ANEL), Rachel Makris. The journalist was taken to the police department in Neo Irakleio, northern Athens, while...

The Greek coalition government has been "plunged into chaos", reports Thursday's Financial Times, by the release Wednesday of a video featuring Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris having a politically embarrassing conversation with Takis Baltakos, who has duly resigned as the prime minister's chief of...

The cabinet secretary Takis Baltakos -- closest aide to Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras -- offered his resignation following the release of a video by the neonazi Golden Dawn party showing the Greek aide engaging in what appears to...

Greece's deal with international lenders to unlock a nine billion euro installment was in peril after two more lawmakers from the coalition's ruling parties said they would vote against it, objecting to a provision that would extend the shelf...