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Golden Dawn Moves Food Handout to HQ.

The food and clothes distribution for Greeks only organized by the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, which was banned by Athens Mayor, Giorgos Kaminis, was finally held on July 24. The gathering was initially planned to take place in Attiki Square,...

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...

Minister Dendias Finishes London Trip

The Greek Minister for Public Order & Citizen Protection, Nikos Dendias conducted a three-day official visit to London, United Kingdom, which was completed on July 5, in order to discuss matters concerning migration and public security. Dendias met among others...

Greece to Blackball Dublin II Regulation

According to Minister of Public Order, Nikos Dendias, Greece has decided to vote against the European immigration regulation. According to the agreement, the country of first entry in the EU bears responsibility for the determination of asylum status. As a...

1.5 Million Uninsured Workers in Greece

According to a survey carried out by the Labor Institute of G.S.E.E, about 1,5 million workers in Greece, both Greeks and foreigners, are working under the regime of partial or entirely uninsured labor. The data show that the contribution evasion...

Dendias Asks Aid To Handle Immigrants

Public Order and Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Dendias met on June 5 with the  ambassadors of the European Union to Greece, the ambassadors of Norway and Switzerland, and a representative of the European Commission Representation in Greece. to talk...

Greek Police To Check MP's, Gun Owners

After incidents involving gun-carrying Members of Parliament sparked warnings that someone might be shot, Greek police said they will have a special three-member committee check all the gun licenses issued in the country to make sure the people who...

EU Urges Greece To Up Asylum

The European Union has called on Greece to review its asylum policies, especially for Syrians fleeing "atrocities" in their country. Greece grants asylum to as few as 1 in 100,000 applicants and the government has been acting to purge...

Three Suspects Arrested In Migrant Shootings

Three men who were supervisors on a Greek strawberry farm and suspected of shooting at 200 immigrant workers, injuring 29 of them, were arrested on April 19, authorities said. The only information given was that the men were aged 21,...

Grigoropoulos' Murderer Still Being Paid

Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15- year-old schoolboy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos in 2008 in the Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, is still receiving his salary from the Greek state. According to “Ethnos tis Kiriakis” newspaper,...