ND snared in row over jobless benefits as Kasidiaris hints at return after prison release

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Far Right, New Democracy, Welfare
Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos
Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

The government’s efforts to promote the measures Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out recently at the Thessaloniki International Fair, while trying to also pick apart those put forward by its main opponents – PASOK and ELAS – suffered a setback this week due to a self‑inflicted controversy over unemployment benefit.

At the same time, the release from prison of Ilias Kasidiaris, the former frontman of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, who was convicted for directing a criminal organisation, has revived anxieties about the boundaries of democratic tolerance - against a...

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