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Golden Dawn Cop Candidate Probed

With the Greek government trying to dismantle the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party as May elections loom for municipalities and the European Parliament, authorities are now investigating whether a police office on Crete is going to run as a candidate. That...

New Democracy's Marx Brothers For Mayor

Next to watching a Marx Brothers movie, nothing is as entertaining these days as watching Greece's New Democracy Capitalists running around like Keystone Cops trying to figure out who's in charge and who's doing what to who and why...

New Democracy Rift For Athens Mayor

The ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will back one of its Members of Parliament, Aris Spiliotopoulos as its candidate for Athens Mayor, creating an instant battle as another of the party's lawmakers and a former...

FT: New Democracy-Golden Dawn Battle for 2nd Place in Elections

International analysts of the British newspaper “Financial Times” see a head-to-head battle between the conservative New Democracy and the ultranationalist Golden Dawn for securing the second place in the upcoming EU elections, following the sure victory of the leftists...

Greece 's Far-Right Golden Dawn's Plan B: National Dawn

With the Greek government having arrested its leaders and trying to dismantle the party, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn has chosen the backup name of National Dawn to use in upcoming municipal elections if it is banned. Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias...

Venizelos: 'Neo-Nazis will be marginalized by Greek society'

Greece's Deputy Prime Minister, Evangelos Venizelos during his speech for the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, expressed his belief that "the neo-Nazi elements, which attack Democracy and violate the law will be marginalized...

Golden Dawn Spokesman Wants Athens Mayor's Seat

Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman for Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, facing charges along with other party leaders of running a criminal gang, told supporters that he will run for Mayor of Athens next year despite the government's vow to...

Two More Golden Dawn Lawmakers Arrested in Greece

Two lawmakers from Greece’s far-right party, Golden Dawn, were ordered to be taken into custody late on Saturday on charges of joining and directing a criminal organization. An Athens court ordered Giorgos Germenis and Panayiotis Ilipopolos placed in pre-trial detention...

Probe Implicates More Golden Dawn MPs

The investigation into the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, whose leaders are awaiting trial on charges of operating a criminal gang, is spreading to more of its 18 lawmakers, six of whom have already been arrested, after the reported discovery...

Golden Dawn Attacks Mayor of Piraeus

Golden Dawn have once again exploited the desperation of thousands of people who lined up for food. Members of the far-right party were this morning distributing food "just for Greeks" near their offices. The Mayor of Piraeus, Greece, Vassilis Michaloliakos had banned their...