Nationalism

Narendra Modi’s unprecedented election victory means that India’s most controversial politician – as well as its most business friendly – will have a firm hold on power in Delhi for the next five years, but his administration cannot count on a honeymoon period, the U.K.-based international consulting firm Oxford Analytica has said in a special report released on June 5.

Another Golden Dawn legislator faced the two investigating magistrates who are leading a criminal investigation into the ultra-right party on Friday as GD sued the judicial officials for abuse of power.

Dimitris Koukoutsis appeared before Ioanna Klapa and Maria Dimitropoulou on Friday to defend himself on charges of running a criminal organization.

The voters from the 28 member states of the European Union (EU) cast their ballots for the European Parliament for four days between May 22 and 25. The results were somewhat expected, but shocking for many nevertheless.

Greek MPs on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of expanding a criminal investigation against neofascist Golden Dawn after the party’s leader Nikos Michaloliakos made his first appearance in Parliament since he was jailed pending trial eight months ago, using the opportunity to curse the government and hail GD’s strong showing in last month’s elections.

Angry scenes unfolded in Greece's parliament on June 4 after lawmakers voted to lift immunity for the jailed leader of extreme right party Golden Dawn and two of his deputies.

Three leading members of ultra nationalist party Golden Dawn, including party chief Nikos Michaloliakos, arrived in Parliament from pre-trial custody on Wednesday ahead of a vote regarding the lifting of their immunity on a variety of charges.

The jailed head of Greece's Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party insisted Wednesday that a judicial crackdown on the party is an establishment plot aimed to sap its growing popularity.

Chinese authorities have been taking serious measures against the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

A group of about 200 Golden Dawn supporters rallied outside Parliament on Wednesday morning ahead of the scheduled transfer of the neofascist party leader Nikos Michaloliakos and another two Golden Dawn lawmakers, Christos Pappas and Yiannis Lagos, from pretrial custody to address the House in view of a vote to lift their immunity for a number of charges.

No date has yet been set for a verdict in the marathon war crimes trial of Serbian Radical Party leader Seselj, who has been in custody since 2003, with the case stalled again by legal wrangling.