Fliers for Golden Dawn. 'An active member of a neo-Nazi criminal organisation is currently member of the EU parliament - this is not a national issue but rather a European one, and all European citizens have a right and an obligation to know' (Photo: wikimedia commons)

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Is Golden Dawn's MEP head of a criminal organisation?

EU Political

by Eleni Takou, Athens,

The recent European elections have been marked by the alarming rise of far-right; seen from the outside, one could feel more reassured for the percentages in Greece, with Golden Dawn scoring 4.87 percent, and the newly founded far-right party Greek Solution scoring a similar 4.18 percent; however, the Greek context is quite different.

Golden Dawn has elected one of its most prominent members to the EU parliament, the former MP Ioannis Lagos.

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Author Bio

Eleni Takou is deputy director and head of advocacy of HumanRights360, member of the Racist Violence Recording Network (a coalition of CSOs that record and report hate crimes), a member of Golden Dawn Watch (an initiative that monitors the trial against Golden Dawn) and is implementing, in cooperation with Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, the #XthemOut campaign, with the aim of pinpointing and highlighting the unseen criminality related to racist attacks in the public space.