Facing pressure from his coalition partners to get behind an anti-racism bill aimed at curbing the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras will meet with them on May 27. PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who almost always yield to whatever Samaras [...]
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Simitis Won’t Appear In Tsochatzopoulos Case
The Athens Appeals Court hearing the trial of former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos for money laundering has rejected his request for the former members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), including ex-Prime Minister Costas Simitis, to appear as witnesses. The court said that the testimony of Simitis, who co-signed defense deals [...]
Samaras Will Follow Ireland’s Lead
After meeting his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny in Athens on May 23, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Greece could use the Irish model for getting out of an economic crisis. Like Greece, Ireland needed the help of international lenders and imposed hard austerity measures. But, unlike in Greece, the Irish didn’t protest, go on [...]
Turkish Combat Aircraft Over Agathonisi
The news for the May 23 flight of Turkish combat aircraft over Agathonisi does not mainly focus on the fact that the aircraft possibly recorded and photographed the establishments on the island, but on the fact that for some reason the two Turkish RF-4 and the two F-16 that accompanied them stayed in the FIR [...]
Political Feud Holds Up Anti-Racism Bill
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 denies. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, reportedly is going to meet with [...]
German Party Likes Greek Euro Exit
A new German anti-euro party says that the currency is to blame for Europe’s unemployment woes and that Spain and Greece should quit the euro as a way to return to economic health, even though Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he has the country on the road to recovery and that it should stay [...]
French Say Lagarde List Tax Collector
Disputing former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou’s assertion that a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts he received in 2010 from then French finance chief Christine Lagarde was “unofficial and confidential,” French authorities said it was designed to be used to help find tax cheats. Papaconstantinou is now being [...]
Parliament Nixes Kasidiaris On Lifting Immunity
Facing prosecution for attacking two fellow Members of Parliament, a bid by Ilias Kasidiaris, spokesman for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party bid to have immunity lifted for the two female lawmakers he assaulted has been rejected by his colleagues. Kasidiaris was seen on live television last year throwing water in the face of Rena Dourou, [...]
Samaras Vows War On Unemployment
As his government is getting set to shed 15,000 public servants over the next two years on the orders of international lenders putting up bailouts, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his administration will bring down the country’s record 27 percent unemployment rate by attracting foreign companies to hire Greeks without jobs. “We have consolidated [...]
Greek Offshore Companies Audited
The Inter-regional Audit Center in Athens (DEK Athens) is closely inspecting 218 offshore companies, resulting from a document forwarded to the Parliament by Deputy Finance Minister George Mavraganis, after questions from SYRIZA MP’s. The MP’s invoked the ICIJ (International Consortium Investigative Journalists) research and stressed out that only four out of the 107 Greek companies [...]
Zizek Wants Gulags For SYRIZA Rivals
Appearing with Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece’s major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRZA) at a Croatian film festival, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek said anyone who doesn’t support the party should be sent to a gulag, political prisoner detention camps. That would be the majority of Greeks who oppose SYRIZA. The pair [...]
Golden Dawn MP With Gun In Parliament
A Member of Parliament from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party who drove into the underground parking lot there with a gun on his passenger’s seat was asked by a police guard to put it away but drove on after telling him, “I prefer to get someone first, before they get me,” the newspaper Eleftherotypia reported. [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Crete Hosts Talks On Ancient Novels May 23, 2013
- Velos Mutiny Honored in Special Ceremony May 23, 2013
- Contemporary Theatrical Adaptation of Homer’s Iliad May 22, 2013
- A Greek Portfolio at The Benaki Museum May 22, 2013
