Greek coalition partners agree on spending cuts

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Greek coalition partners agree on spending cuts San Jose Mercury News ATHENS, Greece—A junior partner in Greece's fragile coalition government has dropped objections to new spending cuts demanded by the debt-crippled country's bailout creditors. Socialist party leader Evangelos Venizelos says he agreed to the new ... Greek leaders reach deal on budget cutsReuters Greek Austerity Plan Outlined, Working on Details-Democratic Left PartyWall Street Journal Greek leaders reach deal on austerity cuts: ministerChicago Tribune all 612 news articles »

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Greek far-right party doles out food to Greeks

Greek far-right party doles out food to Greeks

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Updated 09:37 a.m., Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Party volunteers dressed in black passed out milk, pasta, potatoes and olive oil in a one-day charity event critics said was meant to soften the image of a party likened to neo-Nazi groups.

Greece is going through its fifth year of recession, with poverty and unemployment rate rising, and Golden Dawn has made inroads in the country's political system with its vehement attacks against traditionally dominant parties and strongly anti-immigrant stance.

The party denies any involvement in a recent surge of street attacks against Asian immigrants in Athens and other cities, despite repeated claims to the contrary by migrant groups and human rights activists.

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Greek far-right party doles out food to Greeks

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Greek far-right party doles out food to Greeks Atlanta Journal Constitution A family receives products from the members of Greece's extreme right Golden Dawn party at Athens' main Syntagma Square, opposite parliament, on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. The volunteers checked ID cards of the public before handing Greek citizens ... Greek far-right party hands out food _ to citizensThe Associated Press all 102 news articles »

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Golden Dawn distributes food to Greek nationals

Members of extreme-right party Golden Dawn handed out free food to exclusively to Greek nationals at Syntagma Square on Wednesday.

Over two hundred people who lined up were asked to present ID cards in order to validate their citizenship.

Golden Dawn organizers said that unemployed persons and people with many children would be served first.

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Germans gloomy on economy, Merkel support firm: poll

BERLIN (Reuters) - More than half of Germans are pessimistic about the economy but support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives is holding firm, thanks partly to their tough stance on the euro zone, according to an opinion poll published on Wednesday. The Forsa-Institute survey, published in the Stern weekly, also showed Merkel's junior coalition partner, the Free Democrats, which has said Greece should quit the euro, back above the five percent threshold needed to enter parliament. ...

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Greece's Coalition to Meet on Cuts in First Test of Unity

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Greek coalition government still split on massive new cuts, Socialists insist extension needed

ATHENS, Greece - A senior official in Greece's Socialist party says a proposed round of massive new austerity cuts will "will not work" without major changes, acknowledging that parties in the country's new coalition government are at odds over how to rescue troubled Greek public finances.

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