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WWII Hero Greek Eurodeputy Pens Emotional Letter to Putin to Rethink Embargo

Greek SYRIZA MEP Manolis Glezos, wrote an emotionally-charged letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to rethink Russia's import embargo to Greek goods. Glezos pleaded to Putin to exclude Greek agricultural products from Russia's recently announced embargo on imports from the EU, the...

Surprise! Tsipras Elected SYRIZA President

Major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras was elected President of the party he controls with 74.07 percent of the vote at the finish of its Congress on July 14 where the loose collection of...

Glezos Puts Tsipras In His Place

The hopes for Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, 38, to put all the disparate forces in the party unified under his control were dashed at the group's congress when World War II...

Varvitsiotis Says Germany Must Pay For WWII

The President of the Standing Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament, Miltiades Varvitsiotis told the German financial newspaper Der Handelsblatt that Germany should pay reparations to Greece for damage done in WWII. Germany has refused...

Greece and Cyprus Leave Eurozone, Adopt Dralira

Saying they would no longer put up with being told what to do and to keep imposing pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and seizing bank accounts so that foreign bankers putting up bailout loans could be paid back,...

Golden Dawn Leader Says They’re Not Nazis

The head of the far-right extremist party Golden Dawn, which showcases Hitler’s Mein Kampf and who has used the Heil salute, has denied it has a Nazi orientation and claimed it is being ostracized by the media and in...

Greek Woman Stopped Holding Greek Flag at Acropolis

It was supposed to be an ordinary visit for a young couple from Kavala, Greece, eager to visit the Acropolis and make some photographic memories. But then, as Mirto Tsakiri pulled a Greek flag from her bag and asked...