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“When violence causes silence, then we’re doing something wrong,” says a Cranberries lyric. This was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the figures of two studies that came out last Monday, on arms spending (SIPRI)[1]…

There was a massive response from people, left-wing parties, and organizations to the protest and march held yesterday afternoon in the center of Athens for the deadly shipwreck of migrants in Pylos. The march passed by the Greek Parliament where…

In Greece, national elections were held on Sunday, May 21, under the proportional representation system introduced in 2016. 60.92% of the electorate participated in the elections, which resulted in an abstention rate of about 39%, slightly lower than the previous…

On Sunday, 21st of May, the Greek primary national elections will take place. There is little to no surprises to be expected for these elections, as the polls indicate similar results to the previous elections of 2019, but maybe there…

A few weeks earlier, Stella Moris Assange, lawyer and partner of Julian Assange, came to Greece. The occasion was the screening of the documentary “Ithaca – the battle for the liberation of Julian Assange” at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival…

A grand demonstration was held again today (3/12/2022)  in the center of Athens for the accident with the collision of two trains last week, where 57 people died. Demonstrators demanded political accountability for the accident since the train infrastructure degradation…

Last night Yanis Varoufakis, secretary of MeRA25 Greek party and founder of DiEM25, was attacked in Exarchia, Athens and was taken to hospital with injuries. The condemnation of the violence towards the Greek MP came from (almost) everywhere, as he…

Balamos in the Roma dialect is defined as anyone who is not a gypsy. This was what they called me when I started to approach and photograph these people, I was a balamos or in other words, a stranger to…

[Our agency publishes the full statement of the Campaign for Access to Asylum, which is placed in the indictment against Panagiotis Dimitras, a well-known lawyer and founding member of the Greek Observatory of the Helsinki Accords – EAPA. Dimitras is…

On October 2020, the news that a Greek court had convicted leading members of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party of running a criminal organization traveled around the world. The trial that ultimately disbanded Greece’s premier neo-Nazi organization, which until 2019…