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Kaminis 2, Golden Dawn 0 In Food Fight

For the second time in two months, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has backed down from Athens Mayor George Kaminis who banned them from conducting another Greeks-only food handout and soup kitchen in a public square in the city...

Kaminis Bans Golden Dawn's Soup Kitchen

Athens Mayor George Kaminis, who was attacked by a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party - who still hasn't been prosecuted - after a Greeks-only food giveaway was banned has stopped the party from doing it again. Kaminis said...

Papoulias Condemns Politics of Hate

Greek President Karolos Papoulias, who fought the Nazis in World War II,  said in his annual statement marking the return of  democracy to Greece after the collapse of the military dictatorship in 1974 said the worst tangent of the...

Golden Dawn's Youth Festival Barred

Permission given to neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party to hold a youth rally at the park of the Port Fund in Kalamata, Greece, on August 2-5 has been withdrawn by authorities. The permission had initially been given Manolis Aggelakas, General Secretary...

Golden Dawn MP's Threaten SYRIZA Deputies

In yet another verbal clash between the extreme left and right wings of the Greek political system, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn yelled obscenities in the Parliament at MP's from the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA)...

Racist Assault Against Elderly Woman

An elderly woman from the former Soviet Union, was sitting on a little chair on the pavement outside the Theageneio Anti-Cancer Hospital in Thessaloniki, where her husband is hospitalized with cancer. She was selling bread rolls to make ends...

Immigrants Still Targets In Greece

As the Greek government has set aside a bill to increase penalties for racist attacks, the number of assaults against immigrants is continuing unabated, people who said they were victims told Agence-France-Presse, including Omar Diallo, who said a beating...

New Democracy Still Leads SYRIZA

Continuing a trend in recent polls, the ruling New Democracy (ND) party is maintaining a 1 percent point lead over its major opposition rival the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA,) a virtual dead heat given the margin of...

Samaras Says Times a-Changin' in Greece

Greece will not change unless it takes on populism and extremism, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a meeting of his New Democracy party political committee. “You cannot change a country if you do not fight and win the battle of...

Greece Wants EU To Take Immigrants

Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the country continues to be so overwhelmed by illegal immigrants that other European Union countries should take some of them. He told BBC’s Hardtalk program that undocumented immigrants in Greece were “a huge...