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British Sunday Times: There May Be Upheaval in Greece After This Week’s Elections

According to several international media, the Greek May 6 elections will not provide the solution to any problems of the country. On the contrary, they refer to the possibility of political chaos after this Sunday's elections, which would be a...

Golden Dawn, Smaller Parties Will Get Campaign Air Time

ATHENS – Greece’s curious campaign laws, which allow the ruling parties to dominate television coverage regardless of newsworthiness, have been amended by the country’s highest court, the Council of State, opening the airwaves to smaller political parties, including the...

Golden Dawn: Amid The Crisis, Greece's Old Fascists Get A New Face

"The touch of the cat" is the name of the admittedly effective tactic followed by Greece's most extremist party, the Golden Dawn. Just like the cats detect their pray walking on their toes,  Golden Dawn quietly observes Greek voters becoming more...

Former Minister Petros Efthimiou Verbally Attacked by Right-Wing Extremists

Petros Efthimiou reports he was verbally attacked in Maroussi, Athens. During a meeting with residents in the center of the district, the PASOK MP and former Minister of Education became the target of a group of youngsters who verbally...

Greek Extremist Parties Head for the Parliament

Elections on May 6 fascinate European journalists because after many years, there is the possibility for the two big political parties not getting enough votes, and therefore, not having a one-party government. According to polls, six parties are expected to enter the...

New Democracy, PASOK Still Sliding, Golden Dawn Rising

ATHENS – With less than a month before an expected election to choose a new leader, support is waning for the two major parties that have taken turns ruling Greece for more than 35 years, the New Democracy Conservatives...

Too Many Immigrants, So Greece Rounds Up the Usual Suspects

ATHENS – There aren’t many Greeks left in Omonia Square, which some years ago used to be a rotary with a fountain and greenery, but in recent years has become a Third World cement cesspool, an urban nightmare of...

Greeks Choice Comes Down to Samaras vs. Venizelos: Elitism vs. Arrogance

ATHENS - Before he became a disenchanted Democrat and reformed racist, and as he ran for President in 1968 on the American Independent Ticket, firebrand Alabama Governor George Wallace famously spat: “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between...

Greek Elections Set for April 29 – Will Anything Change?

ATHENS – The brief reign of interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, the former European Central Bank (ECB) Vice-President who has been ruling since former premier George Papandreou resigned on Nov. 11, 2011, may end on April 29 if Greeks...