THEATER KIKKER IN UTRECHT From 8/1 until 26/1 Theater KIKKER in Utrecht presents a series of performances under the title: Greece on sale! (in Dutch: Griekenland in de uitverkoop). To advertise the performance, a big banner of the Greek flag with the word 'sale' was hang on the facade of the theater. Someone destroyed the banner. According to the artists, the aim of the performance is the study of the relat ...

The eviction of Athens' occupation points at the dead-end authorities in Greece are hastily driving themselves in.   In the early hours of December 20, a police unit drove down Acharnon, a busy thoroughfare in central Athens. Arriving at the imposing building lying at its junction with Cheyden St, they informed the occupants they would be conducting a "routine" check. Only a few hours later, the buildi ...

This is Greece and Europe in 2013! A documentary film on Golden Dawn, its promotion by the media, its co-operation with Greek police and the struggle against fascism in Greece.     Created by Network of Information and Solidarity for Antifascist and Anti-repressive Action in Greece   ...

The green crowd used to feel pretty rosy about Greece. After former Prime Minister George Papandreou was elected in 2009, he set up a government ministry to study the environment, energy, and climate change, and he talked up initiatives on eco-tourism and renewable energy. But now, after six years of recession, the country has begun buying into several new environmentally damaging development schemes to gen ...

On Saturday 19/1 ReINFORM invites you to meet, discuss about grass root social centers and eat a vegan meal in MKZ. MKZ is a social center located in Eerste Schinkelstraat 16, Amsterdam (ten zuiden van Vondelpark).   ...

By Apostolis Fotiadis and Claudia Ciobanu This is the first of a two-part report on extraordinary measures the EU is taking to keep unwanted migrants out of the EU. A detention camp at Evros in Greece. The placard an inmate holds up says ‘Guantanamo’. Credit: Nikos Pilos/IPS. ATHENS/WARSAW, Jan 9 2013 (IPS) - The European Union is implementing a new border management system with tougher migration control th ...

By Chloe Hadjimatheou BBC News, Athens Greek police have stepped up efforts to catch illegal immigrants in recent months, launching a new operation to check the papers of people who look foreign. But tourists have also been picked up in the sweeps - and at least two have been badly beaten. When Korean backpacker Hyun Young Jung was stopped by a tall scruffy looking man speaking Greek on the street in centra ...

By occupiedlondon.org UPDATE, 11.45 am. If the numbers of detentions are confirmed (101 in Villa Amalias and 40 at the Democratic Left) this would mean today’s police operation will have seen the biggest number of anarchists detained at least since the 1998 Polytechnic riots. At approximately 07:30 on January 9, dozens of people re-squatted Villa Amalias this morning, hanging a banner writing: “Squat for Ev ...

By JUDY DEMPSEY BERLIN — The euro crisis has not been good for NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Mr. Rasmussen has used every occasion to cajole alliance members into investing and collaborating more in defense. He said recently that allied defense expenditures had declined by more than $56 billion compared with 2009. Practically all of those cuts happened in Europe, reducing defense spending ...

Why not make slaves out of unemployed people? Unpaid work by unemployed people is the suggestion of the ex finance deputy minister, Petros Doukas. Mr Doukas outlined on his personal webpage a number of suggestions in order for Greece to exit the crisis. One of his brilliant suggestions is that unemployed people should offer unpaid work wherever the State needs them to. Also enterprises could be asked whethe ...