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The leftist-led government has decided to go ahead and swallow the bitter pill of foreclosures and changes to legislation governing labor unions. Both of these are leading symbols of the anti-systemic movement that gave rise to ruling SYRIZA and therefore make this new resolve extremely significant.

Sixteen people were being questioned over on Saturday in connection with violent clashes between self-styled anarchists and police on Friday night following a march marking the anniversary of a student uprising against Greece's military dictatorship in 1973.

A petrol bomb explodes among riot policemen during clashes with self-styled anarchists Friday that followed a rally in Athens marking the 44th anniversary of a student uprising against Greece's military dictatorship. Some 10,000 people attended the march, which was peaceful though anarchists later broke away from the crowd and clashed with police.

It took 2.7 billion euros in new taxes and pension cuts for the government to beat the primary surplus target by 1.9 billion euros this year.

Even Public Power Corporation (PPC) looks set to be among the recipients of the so-called social dividend for 2017 - part of the amount above the primary budget surplus target that the government and the country's creditors agreed last week could reach up to 1.1 billion euros.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis faced a dilemma before deciding to run for the leadership of opposition New Democracy. He could have avoided the race completely and founded a new center-right party shaped along modern lines, but he took the plunge instead. The danger with these big traditional parties, however, is that they tend to be like a very big ships in that they're hard to steer.

Chairman of the SPO party in Schwechat David Stockinger thinks the fascist gatherings in the Austrian town of Bleiburg "must stop. "

In a statement to Tanjug, Stockinger stressed that he supported the initiative of Austrian parliament member Katarina Kuharovic (SPO), in this regard.

Her name is Anastasia Stefanidou, she is a student at Democritus University of Thrace where she is studying Political Sciences.

But what is makes the social media go crazy about her is not her views on ideologies and political systems.

Nope!

It’s her amazingly sizzling hot body she just cannot show enough of at her Instagram account.

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A day after 18 members of the Rouvikonas (Rubicon) anarchist group entered the Spanish Embassy in Athens to protest the use of police violence in Catalonia, a court Thursday imposed suspended six-month prison sentences on them for disturbing the peace.

The government is now suffering the adverse consequences of the protracted and unacceptable tolerance that it has displayed in response to the actions of far-left and anarchist groups.

Tuesday's raid at the Spanish Embassy on the capital's central Dionysiou Areopagitou Street by members of the Rouvikonas (Rubicon) anarchist group was anything but a bolt out of the blue.