Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras has set a June 18 meeting with his coalition partners, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who are demanding he withdraw a decree that closed down the national broadcaster ERT. The flap is threatening to undermine the coalition government, which [...]
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Golden Dawn’s Festival Angers Kalamata
A storm of protests has risen in Kalamata after Golden Dawn’s decision to organize a festival for its voters around Greece on August 4, the day the dictator, Ioannis Metaxas, carried out his self-coup in 1936. Municipal factions, Kalamata’s Anti-Fascism Movement, local organizations and unions are mobilized to prevent the festival from taking place in [...]
New Democracy Opens Lead Over SYRIZA
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ relentless drumbeat that he has saved Greece from economic collapse, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, nonetheless is paying off as a poll by the MRB agency shows his New Democracy Conservatives have a 2.3 percent lead over the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) after being [...]
Kasidiaris Says Holocaust Fiction
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 a debate about the parliamentary committee which is probing the political handling of the so-called [...]
New Democracy Holds Onto Slim Lead
The ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras continue to maintain a narrow edge over the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) part in the latest poll, which pretty much mirrors the last couple that found the leftists aren’t gaining ground despite a drumbeat of opposition to unpopular austerity measures. The [...]
Venizelos, Kouvelis Block Debtor Loan Relief
Another rift has developed in the Greek coalition government with PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) chief Fotis Kouvelis trying to delay a bill that would let Greeks buried under pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions have more time to pay back their loans as Prime Minister and New Democracy (ND) [...]
Golden Dawn Bill Goes After Immigrants
With the Greek government paralyzed by indecision over four separate anti-racism bills aimed squarely at the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, the extremists have hit back with their own proposal that seeks penalties against immigrants – their target – who commit crimes against Greeks. The news came in a press release from the party, which has [...]
Greek Police To Check MP’s, Gun Owners
After incidents involving gun-carrying Members of Parliament sparked warnings that someone might be shot, Greek police said they will have a special three-member committee check all the gun licenses issued in the country to make sure the people who have weapons know how to use them. Police chief Nikos Papayiannopoulos said the panel will assess [...]
Golden Dawn Airport Gun Firing
Panic prevailed at Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos, shortly before three in the afternoon of May 30 when the gun of Antonis Gregos, Golden Dawn deputy, went off while he boarding Aegean’s flight 510 to Thessaloniki. According to the procedure, Gregos was about to leave his gun at a special place so that it would [...]
Black Panthers Will Fight Golden Dawn
Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which critics said have been beating immigrants with impunity as the government is frozen over what to do, will find itself squaring off with people who fight back. Black immigrants in Greece – many of them in the country unlawfully – have formed the Black Panthers, taking their name from [...]
New Democracy Opens Gap On SYRIZA
With international aid pouring in, investor confidence rising, and tourists returning in record numbers, the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA)’s anti-austerity message is losing its edge with the party falling further behind the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, three polls show. The bad news for all [...]
Racism Bill Will Go To Parliament
An anti-racism bill opposed by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and aimed at curbing the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party will go to Parliament for consideration despite his objections, PASOK and Democratic Left (DIMAR,) the junior parties in Greece’s conservative-led coalition government, said. The bill was being prepared by the Ministry of Justice. PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos [...]
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Calendar – Exhibits, Concerts, Fun
- Greek-Australian Conferences in Thessaloniki, Lemnos June 18, 2013
- 35th River Party at Aliakmonas June 18, 2013
- Greece Keeps On Running in Crete June 17, 2013
- Mount Athos Area Gourmet Ends in Success June 17, 2013
