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Greece: Locals help Athens police beat up an immigrant

Greece: Locals help Athens police beat up an immigrant (France 24)

After this video was posted online, Athens police announced they would carry out an enquiry.

Greece to form interim government

Greece to form interim government (bbc)

Greek President Karolos Papoulias is due to meet party leaders to set up a caretaker government ahead of fresh elections expected next month.

A final round of talks to secure a coalition failed on Tuesday raising new concerns over Greece's eurozone future.

Greece's moderate left says no government possible

The moderate Democratic Left party in Greece says it will not join pro-bailout parties in a coalition without the more radical far left Syriza.

The Greek president has called the four main parties, including the centre-right New Democracy and the Socialist Pasok, to try to form an emergency government to avoid new elections.

But Syriza said it would not attend because it could not back any coalition which supported austerity.

A majority voted against last week.

EU central bankers ponder Greece euro exit

EU bankers ponder Greek euro exit (bbc)

European central bankers openly express views on the possibility of Greece leaving the eurozone as the country struggles to form a government.

How could Greece leave euro?

How could Greece leave euro? (bbc)

A "drachma" is an ancient Greek currency unit and translates as a "handful", which is a lot less than what Greece will need to pay off all its debts.

For two years, everyone has been asking what would happen if Greece left the euro and went back to the drachma.

Now that time may be upon us.

Third Greek coalition by Socialist bid fails

Greek socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos abandons the latest effort to form a governing coalition, bringing closer the prospect of fresh elections.

Socialists in bid to lead Greece

Socialists in bid to lead Greece (bbc)

The leader of Greek socialist party Pasok is due to meet his conservative counterpart as attempts to form a unity government continue.

In Greece, another day no government

In Greece, another day no government (cnn)

Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece's far-left party Syriza must succeed in forming a government Thursday or admit failure, but party leader Alexis Tsipras faces an uphill task. 

• The Leftist party is under pressure to form a government or give up Thursday
• Socialist PASOK leader says, "At this stage there is no solution"
• If no government is formed by May 17, Greece has to call new elections

Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party Gains 21 Seats In Greek Parliament

Greek Elections: governing parties 'lose majority' at polls

Greece's governing parties, which back EU-mandated budgetary cuts, lose their majority as anti-austerity parties make gains, creating new political uncertainty

Greece set for critical vote amid eurozone fears

Wind of change: Greek voters look to new generation

Greek voters look to new generation

Slogans are everywhere. Pinned to trees, stuck to houses, hung up like Christmas lights across town. Voices boom out of loudspeakers intermittently and there are constant late night gatherings. It is the last week of campaigning across Greece before one of the country's most critical elections of the last three decades.

Greeks mourn man who shot himself outside parliament

Greeks mourn man who shot himself (bbc, VIDEO)

Around 2,000 mourners have attended the funeral of Dimitris Christoulas, the pensioner who shot himself outside the Greek parliament over the country's economic woes.

Mourners attending the non-religious ceremony in Athens, shouted political slogans and cheered as the coffin was carried through the crowds.

In a suicide note published by local media, Christoulas said he could not survive on his pension and expected Greeks to take up arms. 

Greek clashes over man's suicide

Protesters clash with riot police in Athens after a pensioner shoots himself dead outside the Greek parliament, leaving a note blaming government cuts

Greek clashes over man's suicide (bbc)

Opinion: Has Greece's democracy regressed?

• Financial crisis is attacking the heart of Greek democracy and sovereignty
• Greek politics are increasingly dominated by extremists on both sides
• Finance ministers of northern Europe are curtailing the choices of a free government
• Greece is now democratically regressing to pre-European Community membership levels

Second bailout for Greece agreed

Second bailout for Greece agreed (bbc)

Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a second bailout for Greece after marathon talks in Brussels.

Greece is to receive loans worth more than 130bn euros (£110bn; $170bn).

In return, Greece will undertake to reduce its debts to 120.5% of its GDP by 2020 and accept an "enhanced and permanent" presence of EU monitors to oversee economic management.

Greece needs the funds to avoid bankruptcy on 20 March, when maturing loans must be repaid.

After five straight years of recession, Greece's debt currently amounts to more than 160% of its Gross Domestic Product.

The euro immediately rose on reports of the deal, which was announced early on Tuesday, after 13 hours of talks. 

Thieves loot Greece's Ancient Olympia museum

Armed robbers have stolen dozens of artefacts from a Greek museum dedicated to the history of the early Olympics.

Two masked men smashed display cabinets and took more than 60 objects after overpowering a guard at the museum in Olympia, officials said.

The town's mayor said the items, mostly bronze and clay statuettes, were of "incalculable" value.

Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos has tendered his resignation, but it has so far not been accepted.

He visited the site which is on a forested hilltop in western Greece.

Mark Lowen

BBC News, Olympia

Last autumn a senior member of staff at the museum wrote to the government warning that budget cuts had reduced staff there to a point where the museum's security could no longer be ensured.

The mayor of Olympia has told me there is a direct link between today's burglary and the policy of cuts and Greece's economic crisis.

He said he was very angry at the situation and the international community needed to realise how important these treasures were for Greece.

Police have cordoned off the museum as investigations continue inside. It is not clear how much was damaged inside.

Greece anger over spending cuts leads to clashes

Greece anger over spending cuts (bbc)

Greek protesters clash with police in Athens, as a coalition party withdraws support for budget cuts needed to secure the latest bailout deal 

jirandoust if you know the answer why do you Ask ?

The Answer is in your Question ...

"Η γνώση είναι δύναμη"  

Greek Expression for: 

Knowledge is Power ... 

Best,

DK 

Constitutional Monarchist

I know you are a constitutional monarchis, as you put it Mr. Kadivar, but what is this general infatuation you have with royal families around the world?

Just wondering...

Very entertaining

Thanks Mr. DK

Yes, they were,

Baleh Daruish jan, they were very close to Nazis as far as keeping the warrior race fit, and
eliminating the unfit. Do you have any videos on that please? thank you.

Nakhir Daruish khan: You may not refer to your humble servant, I, as  a premature commie.
However, council communist could be a  much closer description. Though
not too hung up on the communist side of it, as long as the council part
is genuine, and the participation is real.

As for the Germans inspired by Spartacus and his rebellion
against the empire, one should keep in mind that the very first victims
of Nazi killers were the assassinated leaders of
the 1919 revolution in Germany: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Libenekht. The
world paid a very heavy price for failure of that revolution some years
later; Six
million Jews, 20 million citizens of USSR,....

Rosa Luxemburg remains as relevant today, as she was almost a century ago. You might say she was the original council communist.

Dunno HTG Jan for an "immature" Commie You should know better

Socialist Party :: Germany 1919 The Spartacist uprising

;0)

"A Country that Loses it's Poetic Vision is a Country that faces death"-Saul Bellow.

Wasn't Sparta, a "premature"

Nazi Germany?