Greece

More than half of Greek people (56%) believe that the July 5, 2915 referendum was damaging for the country, while only one in three (34%) believe that it was good for Greece. The poll was conducted by "Aboutpeople" using...

Greek Speaker of the House Constantine Tassoulas rebuked MeRA25 leader and ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Friday for handing an envelope over to him containing a USB of the conversations he had secretly recorded while attending a Eurogroup discussion...

A bombshell revelation from a French book, claiming that the SYRIZA government asked Russia to print drachmas in order to replace the euro in 2015 has opened a new round of political controversy in Greece. The claim, made in the...

Meeting President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Athens on Thursday, former French President Francois Hollande referred to the Pavlopoulos' important role during the summer of 2015, immediately after the EU referendum held in Greece. According to Hollande, the...

Sunday's referendum on the name change in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia turned out to be a fiasco, both for Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Greece's Alexis Tsipras. The two leaders who signed the Prespa agreement in June expected...

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis hailed the referendum of July 5, 2015 as a "celebration of Democracy", to mark its third anniversary. In a series of tweets in both English and Greek, Varoufakis says that "three years ago, today,...

On the third anniversary of the referendum to decide whether Greece was to accept the bailout conditions imposed by its creditors, the political landscape of the country looks so much different. Former firebrands Alexis Tsipras and his SYRIZA-led government which...

Political analysts in Greece are speculating whether the SYRIZA-led government is having second-thoughts on its refusal to contemplate a referendum on a possible agreement on the name of FYROM. Friday’s front-page of SYRIZA’s official newspaper ‘Avgi’ leads with a headline...

There were great celebrations about the re-opening of public television ERT in June, even a monument for the "fighters" of ERT was erected. Yet, what the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition forgot to do was to celebrate the second "proud No" anniversary,...

WikiLeaks email correspondence revealed that the White House asked Bill Clinton's former Chief of Staff, John Podesta, to inquire as to whether the former United States president would be willing to intervene following the Greek referendum in July 2015...

A year since the anniversary of the Greek Referendum on July 5, 2015, when Greeks rejected the terms of the bailout conditions that were subsequently imposed on the country anyway, American economist James Galbraith explained Plan B for Greece that had been drafted...

On the morning of June 26, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras invited his entourage of ministers to the 25th floor of the hotel where the Greek delegation to Brussels was staying. Ahead of the European Council, his ministers - Nikos...

A new petition on Greece has been launched on Avaaz.org, the global civic organization that promotes activism. The user, Nikolaos, is gathering signatures for the activation of article 44 of the Greek Constitution for a referendum on whether Greece...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker outlined the differences between the referendum that took place in Greece last July and the one taking place in Britain. In an interview with German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Juncker said that Greece's position...

Greek app developers One9six and SOFTWeb on Thursday announced the release of a mobile app on Android and iOS platforms for smartphones, in which the public express their opinion about a possible "Brexit" in the upcoming British EU referendum...