Muffling of a Voice Provokes Outcry in Greece
- Liz Alderman and Rachel Donadio - New York Times
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- June 19, 2013
ATHENS — The poignant image made its way around the world: A blond violinist, tears streaming down her face as she played Elgar in a studio orchestra of Greek’s state broadcaster to protest Prime Mini...
No ERT Solution, Coalition Talks Suspended
- Andy Dabilis
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- June 19, 2013
ATHENS – Greece’s high drama over the closing of the national broadcaster ERT, which threatened to dissolve a fragile coalition government, continued late on June 19 when Prime Minister Antonis Samara...
ERT In Limbo, Samaras’ Coalition At Risk
- Andy Dabilis
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- June 19, 2013
ATHENS – With his coalition partners furious that he has ignored a ruling by the country’ highest court to restore the signal of state broadcaster ERT – turned off on June 11 when he ordered the stati...
Samaras Proposes ERT
ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras has offered to reopen a pared-down version of the state broadcaster under temporary management and reshuffle the cabinet, a government official said on J...
Greek Coalition Avoids Collapse Over TV Shutdown
- Derek Gatopoulos and Nicholas Paphitis - The Associated Press
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- June 18, 2013
ATHENS — The Greek government has avoided collapsing over a dispute stemming from Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' move to close the state-owned television broadcaster after a high court ruling offered...
Has Greek Austerity Finally Gone Too Far?
- Anthee Carassava
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- June 17, 2013
ATHENS — Just as this crisis-stricken country appeared to be turning around, Antonis Samaras shot himself in the foot.
Determined to re-invent his cash-strapped, chaotic country — the first domino to...
Greeks Were Wrong: Things Getting Worse
- Nick Malkoutzis - Bloomberg
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- June 16, 2013
ATHENS - In recent weeks, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had been telling the world that Greece had turned the corner. He pointed to a recovering stock market, falling bond yields, improved fiscal pe...
ERT Crisis Restarts Greek Protest Mood
- The Economist
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- June 16, 2013
ATHENS - Greece was back in protest mode after Antonis Samaras, the center-right prime minister, broke ranks with his coalition partners and high-handedly closed the state broadcaster on June 11th wit...
Samaras Readies Battle Lines Over ERT
- Andy Dabilis
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- June 16, 2013
ATHENS – Insisting that the growing flap over his order to immediately shut down the national broadcaster ERT last week without going to Parliament would not force early elections, Greek Prime Ministe...
Corralling Golden Dawn Fortifies Greek Democracy
- Kenneth Bandler - Jerusalem Post
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- June 15, 2013
A new law that penalizes anti-Semitism and racism, and Holocaust denial, would be a huge boost for Greece’s Jewish community of 5,000, down from 80,000 before the Nazi extermination.
Extremist, hatef...
Greek Workers Strike Over ERT Closing
- Derek Gatopoulos - The Associated Press
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- June 13, 2013
ATHENS (AP) — Unions in Greece held a general strike June 13 in protest of the closure of state-run TV and radio which has divided the fragile coalition government.
Several thousand protesters gather...
Papaconstantinou Faces Breach of Trust Charges
- Andy Dabilis
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- June 08, 2013
ATHENS – Already being investigated as part of a probe into why the names of three of his relatives were erased from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that still ...
Golden Dawn Cuts New Democracy, Not SYRIZA
- Othon Anastasakis - Open Democracy
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- June 03, 2013
The rise of the far right in Greece is becoming a grave issue and is putting the country back on front pages - this time with Golden Dawn being reported as “the Mother of all far right movements in Eu...
Gun-Toting Greek MP's Face Police Review
- Nicholas Paphitis - The Associated Press
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- June 01, 2013
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek extreme far-right lawmaker who wanted to travel with his licensed handgun on a domestic flight drew unwanted attention after the firearm accidentally went off during chec...
Samaras’ Coalition Cracks Over Anti-Racism Bill
- Andy Dabilis
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- May 28, 2013
ATHENS – A bill to increase penalties for racist crimes in Greece – aimed squarely at the rising power of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party – has been shelved because Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pulle...
Angelopoulos’ Olympic Book N.Y. Times Bestseller
My Greek Drama: Life, Love and One Woman’s Olympic Effort To Bring Glory To Her Country, by Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, has hit ninth place on the New York Times list of best-selling non-fiction bo...
Another Defection As PASOK Unravels
- Andy Dabilis
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- May 25, 2013
ATHENS - After winning the 2009 elections under George Papandreou with 44 percent of the vote, the once-dominant PASOK Socialists are down to 5-7 percent and fraying at the edges with one of its stal...
Greece And The Rise Of Hate Over Europe
- Nick Burns - Boston Globe
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- May 23, 2013
IN ATHENS, a popular far-right party condemns Jews as a source of the country’s misfortune and recycles the ancient lie depicting them as “Christ killers.”
In Hungary, the prime minister fails to di...
Golden Dawn Models Itself On Hezbollah
- Andy Dabilis
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- May 22, 2013
ATHENS – Under fire in Greece for its anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic stance, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is looking to the terrorist group Hezbollah as an example of how to gain power, one of its ...
Gun-Toting Golden Dawn MP In Parliament
- Andy Dabilis
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- May 20, 2013
ATHENS – A lawmaker from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, whose members reportedly regularly carry arms, was asked not to take a gun into the building and to put it away as he drove his car onto the gr...
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