Full Coverage: Greece

16.05.2008 A group of about 50 leftist anti-militarist and progressive activists from Greece will visit Macedonia on Saturday, May 17, to meet in a joint debate with their Macedonian hosts (Hotel Continental, 13:00 hours).

16.05.2008 Grupa od 50tina grčki levičarski antimilitaristički i progresivni aktivisti pristignuvaat vo Makedonija vo sabota, 17 maj, i ke održat zaednička tribina so nivnite domakini od Makedonija.

14.10.2005 Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, said yesterday that the Special Mediator Matthew Nimitz, doesn’t plan to come forward with yet another idea to solve the dispute over the name of the Republic of Macedonia between Macedonia and Greece.

11.06.2004 The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply concerned about a recent media development in Greece.

07.07.2003 ‘The Greek and Macedonian authorities should cooperate to ensure that adequate facilities are provided for the Roma from Kosovo fleeing persecution, and fair determination of their asylum claims. No Roma should be returned to a country where their lives or freedoms are at risk.’ Source:Minority Rights Group

25.06.2003 Ljubisa Vrencev brings his witness account of the manifestations that took place aside the official EU meeting in Porto Carras. While street protests occupied the headlines for the scattered incidents caused by some minor anarchist groups, very little coverage was given to the issues discussed in the alternative forum.

24.06.2003 Various cross-border initiatives are being undertaken by the governments of the States facing the Adriatic sea. The decision to adopt and enforce legal instruments for marine environmental protection resulted out of strong activists' lobbying conducted at regional level.

22.06.2003 Social movements activists peacefully moved through the streets of Thessaloniki in an attempt to let their opinion on a common immigration policy be known to the participants of the summit. The message from the crowd was clear: a human-centred approach for a multicultural Europe.

30.05.2003 The International Helsinki Federation on Human Rights issued an open letter to the Greek Prime Minister, Mr. Constantine Simitis. The organisation denounced the abuses - resorting to inhuman and degrading treatment - reserved by the Greek authorities to Roma residing in the country.

23.05.2003 A large group of Kosovo Roma has been stopped a few days ago at the Greek border with Macedonia. Roma were attempting to cross the border to seek refuge into Greece, but Athens denied such right alleging that the conditions of Roma in Kosovo are not to be considered of particular concern.