Greek Election

The Greek elections are finally over (one more time) and a new government has been formed aiming at leading the country out of the crisis. Party leaders have attracted international media attention for quite a long time now, but...

For the first time in the history of the Greek Parliament, 20% of MPs will be women. On the basis of the June 17 election results, the number of women in Parliament rose by 2.7% than that in 2009 to comprise 60...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will send a team to Greece to review the country's stumbling rescue program as soon as a new government is formed, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said Tuesday. "We will wait until a government is...

Despite the violent behavior of some of the MPs of Greece's far-right party Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) and the numerous cases of attacks on immigrants reported in Athens and other Greek cities, almost one out of every two policemen...

World stock markets were propelled higher on Monday morning on relief that pro-bailout parties in Greece had secured a narrow victory in the election re-run over the weekend. But there was concern that the rally would prove shortlived, amid continued...

The pro-austerity New Democracy Conservatives won the critical June 17 elections, edging out the anti-austerity Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) but without enough of the vote to form a majority government, thus necessitating a coalition. As central banks stood...

Leaders of the world's largest economies began to assemble Sunday in a Baja California desert resort just as Greece's pro-bailout New Democracy party won the national elections, a vote for the financial status quo that could keep panic under...

Police say about 10 men armed with sledgehammers and wooden bats have attacked a polling station during Greece's election, wounding two policemen guarding it and setting fire to the ballot box.  No voters were hurt during the attack Sunday,...

On the evening of a Greek election crucial to the future of the euro, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle joined other German politicians in a pledge to help Greece on Sunday, but warned that the new government must stick...

Ballots have opened nationwide in Greece for a critical general election that will determine whether the debt-laden country will complete painful austerity reform or see its eurozone future jeopardized. Some 9.8 million Greeks began voting at 7am local time on...