New Democracy
Greece
New Democracy, SYRIZA Spar Over Golden Dawn
How to handle the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, whose hierarchy has been arrested on charges of running a criminal gang has pitted the ruling New Democracy Conservatives against their rival, the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left...
Crime
Released Golden Dawn MP's Claim Victory
Three senior lawmakers from Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn who were released from pre-trial detention while facing an array of charges including murder, extortion and money laundering stormed out in anger, with one of them, party spokesman, punching and kicking...
Economy
Samaras Talks Debt Cut in Washington
After a meeting in Washington, D.C., with International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, one of Greece's Troika of international lenders, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative party leader, again began fishing for a debt cut he said...
Canada
Michaloliakos Arrest Fascinates Canadians
The news of the arrest of the Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos and a number of his party's leaders and members has seized the attention of the media in Canada.
Both newspapers and the broadcasting media referred to the reactions...
Crime
Greece Moves To End Golden Dawn Funding
After arresting the leader, number two man and spokesman for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party during a sweep of its members, Greek authorities are now moving to cut off state funding that political parties get if they serve in...
Crime
Venizelos Says No Bailout, No Elections
Greek Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister/PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos said during his visit to New York to represent the country at the UN General Assembly that despite what Greece's lenders and many analysts say, there is no need for...
Economy
Greek Workers Strike Second Day
Although hundreds of previous strikes and protests against austerity measures the last 3 1/2 years have all failed, Greek civil servants took to the streets on Sept. 25 for the second day of their 48-hour general strike which is...
Greece
Golden Dawn’s Percentages Drop after Fyssas’ Killing
A new Metron-Analysis poll for the newspaper Ethnos tis Kiriakis records a marginal difference in favor of SYRIZA which gathers a 19.8 percent in voting intention against the 19.6 percent of Samaras’s New Democracy.
In voting intention, PASOK gets 4.8...
Crime
Tsipras Says Austerity Boosts Golden Dawn
With social unrest raging again in Greece - this time over the killing of an anti-fascist for which a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party was arrested - major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader...
Crime
Greece Plans To Stifle Golden Dawn
Giving up the idea of banning the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which is not allowed under the Constitution, the Greek government instead is said to planning to try to designate it as a criminal gang so that more than...