April 4, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the criminal prosecution of 11 MPs of the far-right opposition party Spartiates (Spartans) as well as of the jailed former Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris, on charges of defrauding the electorate. The head of the Spartiates party, Vasilis Stigas, is not …
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November 23, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Νine lawmakers of left-wing SYRIZA announced on Thursday morning that they break way from Greece’s main opposition party seeking to form their own parliamentary group. Early aftenoon, also MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis announced his departure from the party. The fraction led by former Labor Minister Effie Achtsioglou, known as “6+6,” is …
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September 18, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A German couple threw a dinner party for a whole village to say “thank you” for saving their house from the summer fires on the islands of Rhodes. “A beautiful and touching initiative by a German couple, who have chosen Rhodes as their second home, wanting to thank all the …
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July 9, 2023
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Greece’s Foreign Ministry condemned a party with electronic music and alcohol drinks inside the historic Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Voukolos in the city of Izmir on the coast of western Turkey. İzmir'de tarihi kilisede parti yapıldı. — Aykırı (@aykiricomtr) July 8, 2023 The Church is being used as a …
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July 3, 2023
Greece, Politics
Hardly had the leader of newly elected religious party NIKI sworn-in in the Greek Parliament and he revealed to public his pint of views on to social issues: abortions and purity education and pledged for the promotion of the Family. “Our faith is our life,” Greek-Orthodox, theology teacher Dimitris Natsios …
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June 29, 2023
Editor, FEATURED, Greece, Opinion, Politics
In an unexpected move but not a surprised one after the crushing defeat on the June 25 elections, Alexis Tsipras announced on Thursday noon that he resigns as leader of left-wing SYRIZA. He will not be a candidate in elections for the new party leadership, he added. This decision was …
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May 22, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Demosthenis Vergis, founder of Greek Ecologists party, has been surprised to find out that one single voter cast a ballot for his party in his own constituency of Athens A in the North. “I’m looking for my only voter in order to thank him and buy him a dinner,” Vergis …
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April 12, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Parliament approved the new legislation in order to prevent the participation in the elections of criminal organizations under the guise of a political party, such as the far-right. The legislation, which targets the extreme-right National Party-Greeks of jailed former Golden Dawn member Ilias Kasiadiaris, was passed with the vote …
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January 23, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greek authorities are investigating how ex-Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris has been able to launch a new political party and run a moderately successful election campaign from the maximum-security Domokos Prison. Despite restrictions on communications, the convicted neo-Nazi has 122,000 followers on YouTube – his main campaigning tool – and …
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May 16, 2022
Greece, Politics
“Today we took a big step to bring hope back to our country,” president of Greece’s main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA-Progressive Allianc, Alexis Tsipras, stressed late on Sunday after the closing of the ballot boxes for the elections of the party leaders and members of the Central Committee. The former …
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May 9, 2022
Greece, Politics
Over 170,000 members of Movement for Change (KINAL) voted on Sunday that the socialist party changes its name to PASOK and the “sun” becomes again the logo symbol of the party that ruled the country for good 40 years and went under due to the Greek debt crisis. Name change …
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March 31, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A Spanish exchange student in Greece has been given a suspended sentence and fined for violating lockdown measures and hosting a party with dozens of guests in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The 21-year-old woman was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday after neighbors alerted authorities. All 52 guests …
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November 22, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The Chief Prosecutor of the First Instance Court in Athens ordered a preliminary criminal investigation after a video recorded during a party at the Athens Bar Association was leaked to the press. The party was held to celebrate the President’s birthday. The video shows a least least ten people cheering …
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November 9, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Sports
Police broke up a party that was being held in the roof garden of a hotel in blatant violation of the lockdown restrictions aiming to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The alleged party organizer was fined with 3,000 euros. Each of the participants was also fined with €300 unnecessary …
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August 20, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Police on the island of Mykonos raided a rented villa where a private party with a few hundred participants was under way. The raid of the villa in Ftelia area took place in the early hours of Thursday. According to local media, some 500 people had been attending the party. …
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July 31, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The Coronavirus was the uninvited guest at wedding party in Thessaloniki a week ago. The virus danced and hugged and probably also exchanged kissed with newly married and the guests and sent twelve people to hospital, among them the groom. A party with 150 guests took place in Ampelokipoi suburb …
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May 21, 2020
Greece
Ilias Kasidiaris number 2 in the hierarchy of far-right and neo-Nazi Golden Dawn has turned his back to the party leader Nikos Michaloliakos. He announced on Thursday that he will establish his own party with the participation of “prominent and serious people.” He justified his decision to leave GD saying …
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March 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A citizen in Palaio Faliro suburb of southern Athens turned his balcony into a disco on Saturday night, the sixth day of the lockdown in Greece. The creative man was armed with a wide repertoire of music choices and powerful loudspeakers. Neighbors came out on the balconies and joined the …
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December 13, 2019
Turkey-GR, Uncategorized
Turkey’s former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, once a close ally of President Erdogan, announced on Friday the launch of his new political party, named “Future Party.” Aim of the party is to challenge Erdogan and weaken support to the party he once also belonged to, the AKP. “The future is …
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July 13, 2019
Greece, Politics
“Everyone can fit in: Leftists, Radicals, Leftist Socialists, Democrat Communists, Social Democrats, green ecologists and citizens coming from the democratic center,” Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday when he called for creation of a large progressive party. Addressing members of SYRIZA Central Committee he dismissed claims that the party has turned …
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