Greece

The two-day works of the conference of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement - PASOK party were concluded on Sunday afternoon in Athens, Greece. The historic center-left party, that governed Greece for more than 25 years since its foundation in 1974, held...

Ever since the 1980s, September 3rd has been celebrated by many Greeks as the day the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) was established by the charismatic Andreas Papandreou, one of the emblematic political figures of post-war Greece. Shortly after the fall...

The Greek centrist party Potami voted on Sunday to leave the Movement for Change (KINAL) group, led by once powerful PASOK, only a few months after it entered the coalition. With a vote of 97 in favor and 16 against...

  The new Greek center-left party elected politician Fofi Gennimata on Sunday to lead a new alliance, hoping to win back voters disillusioned after seven years of crisis and boost their popularity as the country appears more polarized than ever. The...

Two armed assailants opened fire against the main offices of opposition PASOK party and police officers guarding the building, just before 8pm local time. According to eye-witnesses, the assailants sprayed the building at Charilaos Trikoupis street in the center of...

In an article appearing this Sunday - on the same date as PASOK founder Andreas Papandreou announced the formation of his new party in 1974 - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tracks PASOK's meteoric rise from the political fringe to...

As a series of opinion polls show that the governing SYRIZA is trailing New Democracy by double-digit figures, the leadership of the leftist party seeks to limit the damage by trying to appeal to centrist political forces. Having failed to...

An extraordinary PASOK Congress is going to take place shortly announced PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata on Tuesday at the Democratic Alliance parliamentary group meeting. The congress is expected to elect the members of PASOK’s main bodies, i.e. the central committee,...

On Friday night, masked individuals threw Molotov cocktails into a platoon of police officers guarding the offices of the PASOK political party in Exarchia in central Athens. The incident occurred shortly before midnight on Friday evening and resulted in two...

Democratic Alliance and PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata on Sunday reiterated her invitation to all members of the area to rally with the Democratic Alliance, in her address to the PASOK committee. We seek to become the big, the progressive majority wave...

Early Tuesday morning shots were fired outside of a political office in Athens, injuring a police officer. Sources at the AP report that the gunman opened fire at a police bus which was stationed outside of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK)...

An Athens prosecutor brought criminal charges of breach of faith and fraud against Rovertos Spyropoulos, the former socialist PASOK party head of the Social Security Foundation (IKA). The charges were brought following a long investigation into the socialist party's...

Alexis Tsipras ahead of his speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair on Saturday. In the party's Twitter account they have uploaded an "album" of soundbites including six "tracks" of famous pledges Tsipras made but failed to deliver. The album is...

The President of the Hellenic Republic received today the president of PASOK and head of the Democratic Alignment Fofi Gennimata. The aim of the meeting, made upon the request of Fofi Gennimata, was to discuss the migration crisis and its...

On September 3, 1974 Andreas Papandreou formed the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the party that ruled for 20 years and marked post-dictatorship politics in Greece. Papandreou, son of Georgios Papandreou who was in Greek politics from 1923 until 1967 and...