Syriza

A survey by PollWatch about May's euro elections shows a right-wing lead overall, despite a predicted victory in Greece for socialist SYRIZA. The survey, conducted across all 28 EU member states, indicates a tight contest for the presidency of the European Commission between conservative Jean-Claude Juncker...

Greece’s main opposition party, the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), announced on Thursday that the its candidates for May’s European parliamentary elections would include historic resistance fighter and national MP Manolis Glezos. Continuing with the internal restructuring of the party’s candidates...

The European Union's statistics agency Eurostat has said it manipulated data to show that Greece has a primary surplus of 1.5 billion euros when in reality it still runs a deficit, but defended the fudge as a legitimate exception afforded none...

Greece’s main opposition party SYRIZA is in the spotlight after one of its candidates for May’s local elections representing the country’s Muslim minority in western Thrace was forced to resign on Wednesday over alleged connections with Turkey’s neo-fascist political scene. The SYRIZA...

The Greek privatization fund TAIPED (Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund) is to undertake the sale of the disused Olympic facilities in Athens, construction of which cost more than 577 million euros. The total cost of the construction was based on data from Greece’s...

The European Union's statistics agency Eurostat on April 23 said that Greece had a 3.4 billion euro primary surplus for 2013, a benchmark that would allow Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to seek debt relief from international lenders. The news came...

Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party has suddenly and without explanation yanked a Roma leader in Thrace from its list of candidates for the European Parliament who had resisted growing Turkish influence in the region...

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' pre-election cash giveaway has prompted hundreds of thousands of people to apply for the so-called "social dividend," much of will be given to low-income pensioners along with the military and emergency personnel that make...

Greek TV satirist Lakis Lazopoulos said he won't accept an offer from the main opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) to run on its ticket in May's European Parliament elections. Lazopoulos, a grandiose actor who has a habit of trying to...

On Thursday, New Democracy's candidate for Athens mayor, Aris Spiliotopoulos, was accused of toeing his party's ultra-nationalist line by Gavriil Sakellaridis, main opposition party Syriza's runner for the same position. Sakellaridis made a clear reference to Laos, which used to be the most right-wing...