Greece

Former Deputy Prime Minister and prominent minister in successive Greek governments Evangelos Venizelos announced on Saturday that he will not run as candidate with the social-democrat ''Movement for Change'' (KINAL) party in the national elections of July 7. With a...

  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...

The mass participation of Greek citizens in the new center-left party election, is seen as a demonstration against the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government, said PASOK MP Andreas Loverdos, on Monday. Speaking on SKAI radio on Monday morning, Loverdos said that the...

The 9 candidates for the leadership of the new center-left party, appeared in a televised debate on state TV, five days before the first round of elections. The two-hour long debate took place just after the terrorist attack against the...

The nine candidates for the leadership of the new center-left party to be formed, presented their views on coalitions during their first public debate on national broadcaster ERT on Monday. With the two major parties leading the race in opinion polls;...

Democratic Coalition and PASOK chief Fofi Gennimata on Friday asked for elections as soon as possible "so that the country gets rid of Syriza and its catastrophic policies". Gennimata was addressing a wide audience in the opening speech of the...

Former Prime Minister and PASOK leader Costas Simitis gave his backing on Tuesday to an initiative to create a new center-left alliance, as ekathimerini reports. Costas Simitis wasn’t among the 58 members who signed the relevant declaration made public on...

At the heart of an unstable and turbulent region, Greek politics stand at a political crossroads with the country's current political landscape shaped by the dominant presence of the center-right New Democracy party, led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Despite...

The Greek Parliament voted in favor of a bill that allows the establishment of private universities in the country. The historic --and yet controversial-- bill was voted in favor by 159 lawmakers out of a total of 300 MPs. The 158...

Influential Greek women have played a crucial role in Greece's history since antiquity -- read on to learn about ten women who shaped Greece today.

Giannis Antetokounmpo, the kid from Sepolia for the first 18 years of his life was stateless, having no papers from either Nigeria or Greece.

By Takis Pappas, Political scientist, the University of Helsinki, Finland* When the covid-19 pandemic broke out in Europe, no government had any experience of how to face it and each tried to weather the storm in its own ways. Some...

Greek lawmakers overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday the nomination of top judge Katerina Sakellaropoulou as new President of the Hellenic Republic. With conservative New Democracy party, leftist SYRIZA and center-left Movement for Change all backing the nomination of the president of...

It was announced on Thursday that the first Parliamentary vote to elect the next Greek President will take place on Wednesday, January 22. According to the recently-amended Greek Constitution, the first vote requires a 2/3 majority for a candidate to...

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...