Letter to Matthew Nimetz
United Nations Special Envoy on the Name Dispute between Greece and Republic of Macedonia. click to read more »
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October 31 2007
Press release
A new case of an ethnic Macedonian being refused entry into Greece. Greek authorities took away his Greek citizenship and placed him on the well known Greek "black list". The reason? He is a member of the Macedonian minority in Greece . click to read more »
October 25 2007
Press release - The misinformation on the so called "Macedonian issue" by the Greek Mass Media.
In the recent period (as it was systematically happened in the decade of 90s) a part of the greek mass media misinforms the Greek citizens regarding the (new) "Macedonian issue" and particularly regarding the relationships between our country Greece and the Republic of Macedonia. click to read more »
October 23 2007
Bitola or Monastiri?...Florina or Lerin?...Istanbul or Constantinopole?
Finally when, will we understand that the toponyms, the difference of language, the cultural variety is richness for a place, for a country? click to read more »
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October 19 2007
Press Release - A policeman controlled a mother with her son because they seemed to be "suspicious". The reason? They were talking all the time not in Greek but in Macedonian.
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October 17 2007
Press Release : Second respond to the article of Mr. Nikos Rousis, Correspondent of the Daily Newspaper Eletherotypia in Strasburg.
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October 15 2007
Press Release : EFA - Rainbow's reply to the article of Mr. Nikos Rousis, Correspondent of the Daily Newspaper Eletherotypia in Strasburg.
The article of Mr. Rousis is referred in the discussion of the Commission of the Permanent Representatives (Committee of Ministers) in the Council of Europe, regarding the issue of the Macedonian political refugees of the civil war in Greece (1956-1949). Unfortunately there is still in force a racistic law in Greece which doesn't allow them to repatriate in Greece. click to read more »
October 11 2007
Article by Pavlos Filipov Voskopoulos : The impasse of the Greek policy in the "Macedonian issue".
...It's time to start a procedure for an ideological reform in our country regarding the said national issues... for the benefit of the Greek society and the benefit of their citizens, in order our county to move forward in the 21st century, without stereotypes and the complexes that characterize it. click to read more »
October 10 2007
Press Release - THE STATE SECURITY DECIDES FOR THE ETHNIC MACEDONIANS....
In 21st century Greece, a member-state of the European Union, the Council of Europe, a state in which its politicians "trumpet" that there is no discrimination, that all citizens are equal, that minorities do not exist, that the ethnic Macedonians do not exist, the State Security Administration needs to decide for a simple matter such as the issuing of birth certificate - and to in the end to issue a negative opinion for that request.click to read more »
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October 8 2007
Press Release - DISCRIMINATIONS AGAINST ETHNIC MACEDONIANS CONTINUES...
Another case of discrimination against a Macedonian political refugee, this time a citizen of a member-state of the European Union... click to read more »
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September 7 2007
EFA Rainbow's Announcement regarding the upcoming National Elections on 16th of September 2007
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August 20 2007
Press release - The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the governmental party "Nea Dimokratia" is claiming that Greeks should remember the unredeemed Greek territories in Turkey
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August 19 2007
A very important trial will take place in 5th of September in Athens. EFA-RAINBOW fully support the initiative of Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) which in a joined action with the Anti-nazi Initiative of Greece and the KIS - The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece brings the neonazi lawyer Kostas Plevris in Front of Justice. The xenofobic, and chauvinistic political party of LAOS through his spokesperson Mr. Adonis Georgiadis is supporting the neonazi lawyer
» Press release from the GHM about the trial.
» Open letter from the Anti-nazi Initiative about the trial.
» Press release from the Anti-nazi Movement about the trial.
» Related links on the issue of antisemitism in Greece: The speech of the
representative of Rainbow at the 2005 Human Dimension Implementation
Meeting (Warsaw, September 29), Working Session: Anti-Semitism,
Tolerance and Non-Discrimination.
August 13 2007
Its still very "difficult" for the majority of Greek mass-media to face the reality about the existence of the Macedonian minority in north Greece - The recent "correspondence" between the daily newspaper "Elevtherotipia" and the NGO "Minority Rights Group-Greece" (MRGG).... click to read more »
August 11 2007
Catholics live civilly but without recognition and discriminated against in Orthodox Greece
Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) highlights the following article on the problems Catholics continue to face in contemporary Greece... click to read more »
July 31 2007
Consul General of the United States of America visited Florina / Lerin
On 24th of July 2007 the Consul General of the United States of America in Thessaloniki made a ceremonial visit in the city of Florina / Lerin. click to read more »
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July 31 2007
Greek Helsinki Monitor Press Release - Based on information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), the proposed media law titled, "Concentration and Licensing of Media Enterprises and other Provisions" was passed by the Greek parliament on 5 July... click to read more »
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July 30 2007
The hypocrisy and the totalitarian perception of the Greek political establishment and the Greek mass media regarding so called “national issues” in Greece. There are similarities with the policy implemented in the former eastern block countries during the "Cold War"
Article by Taki Mixa - in the daily newspaper Elevtherotipia
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July 28 2007
Magic picture …by Dionisio Gouseti
An open falsification of a photo – documentation regarding the Cyprus issue from the daily newspaper “Kathimerini”. Massive graves of innocents Turkish Cypriots, victims of the terroristic Greek Cypriot Organigation EOKA B’ before 1974 (see photo dated 14/08/74) were presented in the daily newspaper “Kathimerini” (edition 22/07/07) as a massive grave of Greek Cypriots “victims” of the Turkish army during its intervention in 1974
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July 26 2007
Article about the visa’s status between Greece and the Republic of Macedonia
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July 25 2007
The question submitted by Mr Lambert has been officially published
The Civil War in Greece witnessed the plight of thousands of political refugees, both ethnic Macedonian and others, including Greeks. At least 28,000 child refugees, mostly ethnic Macedonians, were also evacuated from areas of heavy fighting and relocated in countries like Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania... click to read more »
July 24 2007
The Abecedar with “cyrillic alphabet” edited in Thessaloniki in 1926 by the Greek Government
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July 23 2007
Press Release about the presentation of the second edition of the Abecedar in Ovcharani / Meliti on 20th of July 2007 by EFA – Rainbow
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July 16 2007
Ntora Mpakogiannis and the Macedonian issue... article by Takis Mihas
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July 13 2007
IPI-SEEMO deeply concerned at a proposed draft media law containing provisions damaging to press freedom in Greece
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global press freedom organisation representing editors, publishers and leading journalists in over 110 countries, together with its affiliate organisation the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), is deeply concerned at a proposed draft media law containing provisions damaging to press freedom in Greece... click to read more »
July 10 2007
South East Europe Media Organisation protests Greece - part II
Based on information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), the proposed media law titled, "Concentration and Licensing of Media Enterprises and other Provisions" was passed by the Greek parliament on 5 July... click to read more »
July 9 2007
Press Release - Discussion at the General Assembly of the Council of Europe about the Macedonian Political Refugees of Greece
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July 6 2007
Greek irredentism and expansionism exposed officially from the Greek Parliament... click to read more »
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July 3 2007
Press release by EFA – Rainbow regarding the resent meetings with: Mr. Tomas Hammarberg - Commissioner for Human Rights, Officials from the Council of Europe and with the Greek delegation during the General Asembly. (Strasburg, 26&27 June 2007)
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July 2 2007
Parliamentary question to the Commission tabled by Mr. Mikel Irujo - MEP of European Free Alliance - European Political Party
The EC's point of view on the name issue FYROM in European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR)... click to read more »
June 15 2007
Decision by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe about the case of OMO Ilinden of Pirin
1. Took note of the continuing commitment of the Bulgarian authorities to ensure without further delay full implementation of these judgments of the Court, with a view to preventing any new violation of the freedom of association of the applicant organisations and their members... click to read more »
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June 14 2007
Vlach activist wins another case in Greek courts
Sotiris Bletsas, President of the Aromanian Cultural Society and a leading Vlach activist in Greece, has won his lawsuit against Dimitris Rizos, owner of the nationalist right-wing daily newspaper “Adesmeftos Typos”... click to read more »
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June 9 2007
Press Release by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe regards the removal of the word “Turk” from a street sign in Komotini
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June 7 2007
EP backs Macedonia in name dispute with Greece
Following the adoption of a report on Macedonia's progress towards EU membership by the EP Foreign Affairs Committee today, which included a Green amendment (1) underlining that Macedonia should be recognised by its constitutional name, German Green MEP Angelika Beer said... click to read more »
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May 21 2007
Press Release by the Greek Helsinki Monitor on 25 April 2007 - Discussion on human and minority rights in Greece in the Council of Europe was once again suppressed by the “conscripted” Greek Mass Media...
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May 17 2007
On 28-29 of April took place the first Congress of the political party “Liberal Alliance” in Anabisso (Attiki). Please click here to see Rainbow’s presentation...
Source: http://www.greekliberals.net/civilaction/
May 7 2007
Rainbow’s answer to the daily paper “Ethnos” - The "conscripted" journalism … and the games of the “journalists” with Rainbow...
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May 3 2007
Macedonian national minority envoy in US and Canada to seek support
Representatives of Macedonian national minority organizations from Greece, Bulgaria and Albania are concluding their first joint visit to the US and Canada, aiming to inform government officials, diplomats and members of the Congress about the violations of human rights against Macedonians in all three countries ... click to read more »
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April 30 2007
Representatives from EFA – Rainbow (Greece), OMO Ilinden Pirin (Bulgaria) and Macedonian Alliance for European Integration (Albania) visited Canada and the USA - Meetings have been realized with Macedonian Organizations as well as with Governmental Officers.
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April 24 2007
EFA-Rainbow participated at the General Assembly of the European Free Alliance - European Political Party (Bilbao / 20 - 21 April 2007)
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April 24 2007
Dimitras interview to Macedonian daily newspaper “Dnevnik” on human rights in Greece - Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) disseminates the interview of its Spokesperson Panayote Dimitras to the Macedonian daily newspaper “Dnevnik” published on 17 April 2007. He gave answers to several questions of journalist Zana P. Bozinovska. The full text follows in English... click to read more »
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April 23 2007
Representativies from EFA - Rainbow meet Officials from the Council of Europe (Strasburg, 18/04/2007)
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April 23 2007
Motion for a resolution in the Council of Europe regarding the status of the Macedonian ethnic minority in Greece... click to read more »
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April 6 2007
Interview with Dr. Nakratzas Georgios - (writter and publisher) for the greek newspaper "Epohi" (Sunday 26th November 2006) about greek nationalisam, macedonian language and the macedonian primer ABECEDAR ...
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April 5 2007
The Macedonian primer ABECEDAR and the comments in the blog DONCAT of
the famous writer Mr. Nikos Dimou.
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March 7 2007
A new book on national minorities in Europe ranks both France and Greece as having worse national minority rights than Russia.
The book, written by Christoph Pan and Beate Sibylle Pfeil, was launched on Wednesday (14th February) at the joint Sud Tirol, Trentino, and Tyrol office in Brussels. The authors compiled the ranking by comparing the performance of European states in their implementation of national minority rights, based on data drawn from the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM)... click to read more »
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March 5 2007
Recent decision from the International Court of Justice on the Genocide in Srebrenitsa bring our memory back to the "ethnic cleansing" of the Macedonians of Kilkis/Kukush committed by the Greek Army in 1913. Read Rainbow’s answer to Mr. George Nakratza on the above issue. (The article was published in Info Zora N.19)
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February 21 2007
EFA urges to promote cultural diversity and multilingualism in EU
Today in 2007, the celebration of the International Mother Language day* remains necessary to highlight the threats to cultural diversity that this International Day embraces. In Europe particularly the problems of many languages and minorized cultures are completely absent on the political agenda. In some cases regions and stateless nations face serious threats and even struggle for the survival of their culture as distinct manifestation of the European cultural and linguistic diversity... click to read more »
February 14 2007
An Interview of Mr. Dimitri Lithoxoou - in the Macedonian Political Magazine FOCUS, N. 516 (Skopie - Republic of Macedonia, 20/5/2005)
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February 12 2007
Press Release by the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF)
Confiscation Scenarios in Western Thrace. Western Thrace Turkish Minority members, majority of whom are engaged in farming, are apprehensive that their land will be confiscated by the Greek authorities ... click to read more »
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February 9 2007
“The Land of the Indians”
Some days ago, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece visited the "Land of the Indians".… in this “strange country” the minorities neither can name themselves as Turks nor can give a Turkish name to their associations … sometimes … the Greek government and the majority of the Greek people do them a favour by calling them "Greek Muslims".
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February 7 2007
Answer to Mr. Kofos’ article by Mr. Pavlos Voskopoulos
When will the political leadership in our country stop being a hostage to a policy which "turns a deaf ear" to the "realistic" Europe? When will our political leadership understand that "historians" and "advisers" of the likes of the honourable Kofos are already out of date in the modern era, so that the Prime Minister of the country is not exposed, as well as Greek policy, at international level?
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February 3 2007
“The airports of Skopje, the statues and the Bible” - aticle by Mr. Evagelos Kofos - Counselor at the Greek Institution on European & Foreign Policy on Balkan issues.
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January 17 2007
“The myth for the unity of the Greek language” - By Theodori Markopoulo
From the very interesting blog “Anorthografies”, in the Indymedia, a text that shows that the babbles about the “united and indivisible language of 3000 years” is an invention, and indeed an invention that have only the Greek nationalists and no other nation in the world.
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January 11 2007
STATEMENT by Dr. G. Nakratza - "THE EMBARGO ON NORTHERN CYPRUS MUST STOP"
Finally we are beginning to hear in the Greek press the voices of honourable figures on the left raised against the wretched embargo inflicted on the Turkish Cypriots of Northern Cyprus. Here and there, the crushing silence of the left is being broken ... click to read more »
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