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Golden Dawn has been in the headlines again this week. One of its MPs, Panayiotis Iliopoulos, was accused of shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ in Parliament.
Now it is being reported that the party has published a letter issuing a sinister ultimatum to Muslims.
In a letter sent via post to the Muslim Association of Greece yesterday, extremist-right party Golden [...]

The New York Times reports:
As an elementary school principal, Leonidas Nikas is used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future. But recently he has seen something altogether different, something he thought was impossible in Greece: children picking through school trash cans for food; needy youngsters asking playmates for leftovers; and an 11-year-old [...]

Guest post by Eve Garrard
I know very little about events in Greece, so what follows rests entirely on information provided by others. But if they’re right, there’s a lot to be worried about.
A British academic currently in Greece recently sent me some information about the Golden Dawn party and some of their supporters, [...]

Although this video showing a thuggish BNP patrol harassing anti-fascists was disturbing, the furthest right parties in Britain are generally in a welcome state of disarray. This is not so in other European countries – France, Hungary and particularly Greece.
It’s chilling to read the steady stream of news stories charting the rising popularity of Golden [...]

We are used to reading about surreally anomalous appointments of representatives from repressive regimes to key UN committees.  But recently something similar has happened within the Council of Europe.  A member of the Greek Golden Dawn party, Eleni Zaroulia,  has joined its Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly.
Its doctrine echoes Nazi principles by [...]

Having pursued interests in the Real World yesterday, I have not been quick off the mark in blogging about the re-run of Greek parliamentary elections following the inconclusive results of 6 May. Here goes:
Perhaps implied by the Wilson formulation, yesterday’s surprise Euro 2012 result steeled more Greek voters to choose centre right and pro EU [...]

No! Israel! But, he really meant Jews. Ilias Kasidiaris then went on to physically assault two female television guests, and disappear from view.

Greek President, Karolos Papoulias has instructed on the formation an interim government in advance of a second parliamentary election will have to be called following the inconclusive one of 6 May.
The only two parties whose combined seats could have reached the 151 seats required for a majority Coalition were the centre-right New Democracy and [...]

If some of us are pleased and optimistic about the results of the French presidential election, I hope all of us can agree it’s cause for some alarm that a party like Golden Dawn won almost 7 percent of the vote (and 21 seats) in the Greek parliamentary elections.

Now why in the hell did some [...]

As the London mayoral election thread ages towards almost half a week, many regulars on political blogs will be losing interest and looking for a more topical subject to discuss.
Today France and Greece are going to the polls in presidential and parliamentary elections respectively.
The first round of the French presidential elections saw a turn-out of [...]