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Who Are ‘the Spartans’, Greece’s New Ultra Right Wing Party?

The biggest surprise on election night in Greece was the performance of a new ultra-right formation called the Spartans which got 4.64 percent of the vote and gained 12 seats in the new Parliament. The grouping was catapulted from relative...

Extreme Right Makes Gains in Greek Elections

Three fringe parties of the extreme right and one of the extreme left are the newcomers in Greek politics after Sunday's elections. The big surprise is a new extreme right-wing formation called The Spartans which got 4.64 percent and gained...

32 Parties to Contest the Greek Elections on June 25

A total of 32 parties and party coalitions will run in the June 25 national elections, following the Greek Supreme Court’s decision released on Thursday. Of the initial 44 parties, coalitions, and independent candidates that had submitted applications to the...

Greece Bans Neo-Nazi Party from Running in Elections

The parliament in Greece approved an amendment late Wednesday to exclude the neo-nazi "Ellines" party from elections. The party is led by Ilias Kasidiaris, a former deputy and spokesman for the Golden Dawn party, who is currently in jail. Of the...

Golden Dawn MP Nikos Kouzilos in Jail

Nikos Kouzilos is the seventh Member of Parliament for Golden Dawn to see his way to jail. The MP is suspected of committing new offenses. After the Member of Parliament’s deposition the investigating judges and the prosecutor will address charges...

Leftist's Murder Sparks Outrage Against Golden Dawn

Greek police are investigating the stabbing death of a 34-year-old hip-hop artist that leftist groups said was killed by a gang of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn members who critics say travel in packs to assault immigrants and their perceived foes. There...

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...

Golden Dawn Vows Mosque Protest March

Angry that the Greek government is paying to renovate a building that will become the country’s first official mosque, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is reportedly planning to mobilize 100,000 protesters to try to stop it. The Macedonian International News...

Papandreou Won't Testify On Lagarde List

Former prime minister George Papandreou has said he won't appear before a parliamentary committee investigating a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was never checked for tax evaders at a time his...

Venizelos Says Rivals Worked Against Him

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, testifying during a fiery hearing before a Parliamentary committee about his tenure as finance minister and his handling of a list of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that wasn't...