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Clash over refugees in central Athens prompts warnings of far-right resurgence
PoliticsGreek Politicswing of Mayor Kostas Bakoyiannis’s ND party, as well more extreme anti-migrant groups acting through... openly critical. In response, a spokesman for the council’s left-wing anti-racism coalition KEERFA..., the coalition accused the authorities of giving precedence to anti-migrant protesters and using violence
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Newsletter 268 -09/10/2020
of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas as well as violent attacks on migrants. Sixteen people were... and by anti-racism campaigners who had called them “an unexpected gift for the leadership of GD... in 2012 with just under 7 percent of the vote, after campaigning on an anti-austerity, anti-establishment
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Kammenos calls for lynching of mayor but ends up boxing himself into a corner
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPanos Kammenos and his anti-bailout Independent Greeks have been showing remarkable resilience... being forced out of New Democracy. It has a rudimentary anti-bailout, nationalist platform... willingness to discuss cooperating with SYRIZA to form an anti-bailout government in the future did
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Nightmare on Democracy Street
Agora-old man, Pavlos Fyssas, who was reportedly targeted because he used anti-fascist lyrics in his rap... have added to this with a fierce anti-immigration policy and a failure to clamp down on Golden Dawn’s... to the mix. Until then, anti-fascist protests will continue to be disparate events organized by different
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Is New Democracy really trying to ease political tension?
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAddressing the nation in the wake of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas's murder by a Golden Dawn... a reaction from the Communist Party (KKE), the anti-capitalist ANTARSYA and pro-drachma Plan B, which... writes outspoken opinion pieces on right-wing website Anti-News, has become a bete noire of Greece's
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Scars for coalition, questions for SYRIZA after confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politics, SYRIZA was only able to draw support for the motion from the anti-bailout Independent Greeks... revolved largely around the now entrenched pro- and anti-memorandum arguments, which voters have heard... to be relayed to the crowd. But only 5,000 people, at most, turned out for the rally. Most anti
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Greek politics in thrall to new faces and old ideas
Agorathen on, parties and politicians have been cast into two categories: Pro-memorandum and anti-memorandum. Any... abandoned by parties fleeing one way or another to man the barricades of the pro- or anti-memorandum camp... cannot be attributed to it being an anti-systemic force. It is far from that: Theodorakis has been
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As SYRIZA looks towards centre, will New Democracy turn to its right?
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Greece, where many still see the leftists as anti-European. “We are a pro-European force... allies, the anti-bailout Independent Greeks and Democratic Left (DIMAR), both performed terribly on May... that there is not much more support for SYRIZA to draw from the far left. Anti-capitalist ANTARSYA and pro
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Greece must tackle foreign bribery by Greek firms, OECD says
Societyanti-graft watchdog has said. Published on Friday by the OECD Working Group on Bribery, which is responsible for monitoring the implementation and enforcement of the organisations 1997 anti-bribery... of fighting foreign bribery and explicitly address foreign bribery in its national anti-corruption
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing a wave of sit-in protests by anti-establishment groups, Alternate Citizens’ Protection... Nea newspaper and suggested that the government’s lax attitude to sit-ins and protests by anti... time ensuring that anti-establishment groups do not disrupt public life and dictate policy could
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