Dendias

Some 460 police officers assigned to guard politicians, journalists, and business executives have been taken away and returned to normal duty, but former deputy prime minister Theodoros Pangalos, a PASOK Socialist stalwart who has retired and no longer in...

Defending Greece's roundup of immigrants suspected of being in the country unlawfully, Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias, during a trip to New York, told CNN International that, “The Greek society is not xenophobic at all, rather the opposite.” He...

A  group of Greek students of the National Technical University of Athens took over the buildings and Network Administration at the school to protest the shutdown of Indymedia Athens. Access to the website access was disabled, reportedly on the orders...

In a transparent shot at the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party accused by critics of leading assaults on immigrants, Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias told cadets at the police academy that the government will not tolerate racism and assaults. At...

Scavengers roaming Greek streets and even tearing apart buildings in search of copper – in one case trying to take down an entire bridge – have now claimed the bronze busts of famed Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis and renowned...

Greece’s government and major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) are battling over blame after an arson attack on a gold mine in northern Greece that officials said could trigger fear by foreign companies to invest in...

Concerned that his ministers are reacting too slowly to implement reforms demanded by international lenders, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is reportedly considering replacing some of them, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. With tax revenues falling far short of expectations despite...

Greek law enforcement officials have reiterated their assertion that four men arrested for bank robberies and believed to belong to a terrorist cell were not beaten while in custody, despite photos that show they were clearly bruised and injured. Public...

As Greek authorities promised to review whether four bank robbery and terrorist suspects were beaten by police while in custody, the human rights group Amnesty International said the government can not erase evidence of their injuries by altering photos...

Some 100 people that police said were protesting the removal of squatters from a dilapidated building in downtown Athens were arrested by police, leading to another protest at the offices of the Democratic Left (DIMAR) party where demonstrators also...