Antisemitism in Greece

No ‘quick wins’ in defending democracy

Democracy is under threat across the world. Fewer people today live in democracies than did two decades ago. Opposition to democracy, and to capitalism, has grown as populists launch "culture wars" - cruelly exploiting migrants and minorities - and appeal to the socially and economically excluded. This is a cocktail variously stirred by Trump, Brexit, Modi, Le Pen, Orban and Meloni.

Judge who probed Golden Dawn named new Supreme Court chief

One of the chief investigative magistrates in the trial against the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn organization, Ioanna Klapa, has been appointed as the new president of Greece's Supreme Court.

Klapa became a judge in 1984 and joined the country's highest criminal court in August 2020 after distinguishing herself in the widely publicized trial.

PASOK petitions court to ban Kasidiaris from elections

Socialist PASOK has petitioned the Supreme Court to block the candidature of a jailed former Golden Dawn MP from the June 25 election.

The Greeks for the Homeland and Freedom alliance of convicted neo-Nazi Ilias Kasidiaris, whose party was barred from running in last month's polls, is among the 44 formations seeking to run in the coming election.

Health minister dismisses organ trafficking claims

Health Minister Thanos Plevris on Friday once again refuted the allegations made by the lawyer of Roula Pispirigou during her trial that the head of pediatric intensive care at Patra University Hospital, Andreas Iliadis, was involved in selling organs abroad, describing them as both provocative and false.

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