Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn has threatened to mobilise 100,000 people against plans to build a mosque in Athens, state television reported on Monday. "If a mosque is constructed for Islamist criminals in Greece, a front of 100,000 Greeks headed by Golden Dawn will be created," party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris told supporters at a rally late on Sunday, in footage broadcast by state television.

The tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has withdrawn its recognition of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Monday in the latest twist in an often bizarre diplomatic dispute. "The Prime Minister of Vanuatu has just confirmed to me his decision that they have changed their mind on Abkhazia's recognition, that they recognise Georgia's territorial integrity," Saakashvili said in a statement posted on Youtube.

The latest draconian measures to shore up the Portuguese economy will make matters worse and the government should break the agreement with the IMF and European Union or obtain better terms, an opinion poll found on Monday. But most Portuguese people also hold that when a bailout programme with the so-called troika of the IMF, EU and European Central Bank ends in June 2014, the economic crises in Portugal will worsen and unemployment will rise.

BERLIN - Engineering a financial bailout for Cyprus in March was such a chaotic process that top European officials say it is time to rethink how the region manages its crisis — and who should be involved. Officials say the International Monetary Fund, which has contributed financial expertise and billions in emergency loans, may no longer be needed as a key decision-making partner. And they say that the eurozone would be able to make decisions and take action more quickly if it wasn't bound by the need for unanimous agreement among its 17 member countries.