Far-right politics

“We need an open debate on the failed integration of foreigners due to the values ​​being transferred to Germany from the countries of origin”

Only a few recent Holocaust movies have provoked so many vituperative reviews or elicited so many strong opinions for reasons almost entirely divorced from the film itself.

The absence of a pan-European response to the pandemic, leaving the hardest-hit countries like Italy and Spain to do much of the heavy lifting themselves, has only served to reinforce one of the far-right's key messages - when the going gets tough, it's every country for itself.

The verdict in a murder trial involving leaders of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn could have deep ramifications for the future of the far-right in Greece.

Zagreb County Court on Monday convicted Dragan Birac of committing war crimes in Hrvatska Kostajnica in central Croatia in September 1991 after he was tried in absentia.

Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos and other high-ranking officials should be acquitted of charges of running a criminal organization, the prosecutor in the ongoing trial against the neo-Nazi party said on Wednesday.

Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos testifying in the Athens appellate court today said he had no involvement in the murder of anti-fascist rapper by Yorgos Roupakias whom he described as a lone ranger who killed Pavlos Fyssas of his own volition and that he was informed of the event the next day.

The head of Greece's extreme far-right Golden Dawn party testified in court on Wednesday for several hours as part of a long-running trial over the party's activities in which he and several former party lawmakers are accused of running a criminal organization.

More than four years since the launch of the criminal trial against Greece's neofascist Golden Dawn, party leader and founder Nikos Michaloliakos took the stand for the first time on Wednesday.
In his testimony, Michaloliakos denied charges of running a criminal organization that targeted migrants and leftists, denouncing the accusations as fake and politically-motivated.

Unidentified assailants attacked the offices of neofascist Golden Dawn party near Athens' central Larissis railway station with gas canisters.
The attack, which took place at around 2.30 a.m. on Friday, caused minor damage but no injuries.