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Stournaras: No Rush For Bond Markets

With the investment seemingly ready to embrace the first Greek bonds since the country went into a crushing financial crisis four years ago, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said it won't happen soon. "We will return by the summer, within the...

Golden Dawn Using Children to Achieve Goals

Photographic material collected from the computers of Golden Dawn members shows that the Greek party recruited even young children and toddlers to pursue their goals and spread their ideology. The images, which were published by Greece 's newspaper “To Ethnos,”...

Prosecutor Probes Baltakos Affair Video, Samaras Plans Strategy

An Athens prosecutor is set to investigate a secret videotape in which a former top aide to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is heard telling the spokesman for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that the government trumped up charges against...

Ex-Cabinet Secretary Baltakos Says More Videos Could Emerge

A day after being forced to resign over a video showing him engaging in not-so-favorable talks with Golden Dawn second-in-command Ilias Kasidiaris, former cabinet secretary of the government Panayiotis Baltakos revealed in an interview on Thursday, that more damaging...

FT: Greek Govt in 'Chaos' After Golden Dawn Video

The Greek coalition government has been "plunged into chaos", reports Thursday's Financial Times, by the release Wednesday of a video featuring Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris having a politically embarrassing conversation with Takis Baltakos, who has duly resigned as the prime minister's chief of...

Golden Dawn Members Fire Guns In Populated Areas [VIDEO]

There is no shortage of evidence showing Golden Dawn members engaged in paramilitary training and using firearms, but now Greece's justice department has managed to procure a large amount of photographs and videos from the personal files of Golden Dawn’s MPs which show...

Golden Dawn Video Causes Political Tumult, Greek Cabinet Secretary Resigns

The cabinet secretary Takis Baltakos -- closest aide to Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras -- offered his resignation following the release of a video by the neonazi Golden Dawn party showing the Greek aide engaging in what appears to...

Parliament Votes to Lift Immunity of Golden Dawn MPs

The Ethics Committee of the Greek Parliament voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of three members of the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party, Konstantinos Barbarousis, Polybius Zissimopoulos and Chrysovalantis Alexopoulos. Barbarousis and Alexopoulos submitted a written report, while Zissimopoulos appeared before the...

Immunity Lifted for Three Golden Dawn MPs

The Ethics Committee of the Greek parliament has decided to lift the parliamentary immunity of another three members of the political party Golden Dawn’s parliamentary representatives, Eleni Zaroulia, Ilias Kasidiaris and Michalis Arvanitis. The eight MPs of New Democracy, SYRIZA,...

Jailed Greek Neo-Nazi MP to Run for Governor

Golden Dawn MP, Panagiotis Iliopoulos, will be running for Head of the Region of Thessaly, Greece, in the upcoming local elections, despite the fact that he is in pre-trial custody on charges of belonging to a criminal organization. Panagiotis Iliopoulos...