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Greek PM Tsipras Meets Mikis Theodorakis Following Plea to Say 'No' to Schaeuble's Nein'

In what is seen as a move of exceptional political symbolism, newly elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited internationally acclaimed composer Mikis Theodorakis at his home earlier this morning. The two men held a discussion regarding the country's...

Mikis Theodorakis to Greek PM Tsipras: Say 'No' to Schaeuble's 'Nein'

Internationally acclaimed composer Mikis Theodorakis stood on the side of the historic member of the Greek Left and SYRIZA MEP Manolis Glezos who yesterday publicly apologized to the Greek people for contributing to an "illusion," as he characterized the...

SYRIZA MEP Glezos Apologizes to Greek People for 'Contributing to an Illusion'

Historic member of Greek Left, World War II resistance participant and SYRIZA MEP Manolis Glezos heavily criticized the Greek government for the Eurogroup negotiations handling as well as the agreed outcome. In a sharp statement published on the website...

Glezos: 'Greek People were Robbed'

SYRIZA and European Parliament Member Manolis Glezos was the keynote speaker at the rally against austerity held yesterday at the Stock Exchange Square in Brussels. The demonstration rally, one of many in major European and Greek cities, was in support...

Populous Greek Delegation in Paris Participates in Solidarity March

Heads of state and the European Union leadership, along with millions of people, attended today the solidarity march in Paris for the victims of the multiple Islamist attacks. At the same time, the security measures were draconian, as some 2,200...

Theodorakis Explains Why He Will Not Support SYRIZA

"They manipulated us in 2012 to increase their electoral power," world-known composer Mikis Theodorakis wrote to a friend explaining the reasons he does not support leftist SYRIZA in the upcoming elections. Theodorakis had said before that he will support the leftist...

WWII Hero Greek Eurodeputy Pens Emotional Letter to Putin to Rethink Embargo

Greek SYRIZA MEP Manolis Glezos, wrote an emotionally-charged letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to rethink Russia's import embargo to Greek goods. Glezos pleaded to Putin to exclude Greek agricultural products from Russia's recently announced embargo on imports from the EU, the...

Remembering the First Act of Resistance Against Fascism

In late May 1941, just a month had passed after the surrender of Athens to the Germans, who were in the process of seizing Crete. Two young Greeks, Manolis Glezos and Lakis Santas, like thousands of Athenians, couldn't stand seeing...

Greek Election Campaigns Crank Up

A week before Greeks go to the polls to vote in local elections - and two weeks before those for the European Parliament - the race between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservatives and major opposition Coalition of...

Anxious Tsipras Says He'll Keep The Euro

Greece's main opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras is fending off criticism that he would take Greece out of the eurozone if he were to come to power, as he tries to keep the reins on his...