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Greece needs a stable coalition government that will stay in power for a full four-year term, New Democracy leader Evangelos Meimarakis told a Greek newspaper, adding that his party would be willing to cooperate with SYRIZA. "SYRIZA must participate," Greece's main...

The Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in northern Greece has been traditionally inaugurated by the Greek Prime Minister. The September 20 snap elections meant that the President of the Hellenic Republic took on this responsibility on September 4. Former Greek Prime Minister and...

On August 19, Greece and its creditors agreed to a third cash-for-reforms bailout deal. Despite the agreement, Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem told CNBC during the G20 convention in Ankara, Turkey, on Saturday, that the new Greek government emerging from the September 20 elections...

If opinion polls are any indication, the September 20 Greek elections will run down to the wire. In the January 2015 Greek elections, SYRIZA had collected 36.3% of the vote while New Democracy had 27.8%. A little over seven months...

In the lead-up to the September 20 elections in Greece, a new opinion poll showed New Democracy leading SYRIZA by 0.8%. According to the poll, which will be published on the Saturday edition of Greek newspaper "Parapolitka," New Democracy garnered 30.4% of the...

Greece's outspoken former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that he will not support SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras in the upcoming elections, but he hopes they will remain friends. Speaking to CNBC on Friday morning, Varoufakis said he doesn't believe in...

Greek parties continue their election campaigns as polls show that SYRIZA and New Democracy are very close, while SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras claims he will not cooperate with his rival if he doesn't get clear majority. Former prime minister Tsipras...

Main opposition leader Vangelis Meimarakis said on Thursday that Greece needs political stability to progress, during his visit to Chania, Crete, as part of his election campaign. The leader of New Democracy met with local authority officials and members...

A new opinion poll on the Greek elections broadcast on Wednesday shows New Democracy leading slightly over SYRIZA by a 0.3 percentage point. This is the first poll showing ND having an edge over the leftist party. In the poll...

An opinion poll on Wednesday indicates an increasingly close race in Greece's upcoming parliamentary elections. New Democracy has shrunk the gap from SYRIZA to just 0.4% with the former garnering 22.6% of the intended vote against SYRIZA's 23%. In another poll on Friday,...