Greece

Nikos Tagaras and Theofilos Leontaridis are to replace their Nea Dimokratia colleagues Maximus Charakopoulos and Stavros Kalafatis, following their resignations, as Deputy Ministers for Environment and Agriculture, respectively. Kalafatis is now running for mayor of Thessaloniki, while Charakopoulos resigned on Saturday over proposed milk reform. Charakopoulos protested...

The latest poll by Kapa Research published in the Sunday edition of "Vima" newspaper, presents two interesting facts regarding the political scene in Greece. The poll showed that Zoe Kontantopoulou's newly founded party "Pleusi Elefterias" (Course of Freedom) makes it...

The Greek 85-year-old landowner Militadis Tzalalidis has promised to donate 3,000 hectares of land in Grevena, northern Greece to citizens of the country if he is elected as a member of the Greek Parliament in the elections of January...

With an increase in voter turnout, the initial European Election results in Greece show the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) ahead of the Nea Dimokratia (ND) conservatives with an up to 4% margin. Browse the table below for real...

Three Friday polls on Greece's local and European elections gave three different results. ALCO's poll for newspaper Proto Thema gave main opposition party SYRIZA a 1.5% lead in European Parliament elections over Nea Dimokratia, whose Antonis Samaras is considered the most popular political leader. According to the...

German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has published an article expressing concern over the Greek coalition government, as the Eurogroup conference in Athens, Greece got underway Tuesday. The article expressed fears that the coalition won't survive until 2016. According to the article, the eurozone...

According to a recent survey conducted by the polling company Alco, SYRIZA, Greece's main opposition party, is ahead of the coalition government of Nea Dimokratia and PASOK. The survey included the newly formed party of Greek journalist Stavros Theodorakis, called "To...

After the terrorist attack against the headquarters of the governing Nea Dimokratia party in Athens, Greece, the counter-terrorism unit believes that the extremist organization "Group of Popular Rebels" will proceed with an attack against Troika. The Greek Police in collaboration with...

The Greek parties received the third installment of the government grant for 2013, which amounts to 7 million euros. This "bonus" was given to all Greek parties except Golden Dawn according to a previous decision of the Parliament prohibiting the...

The Economics Department of the University of Ioannina, Greece, carried out a poll of voting intentions during the next elections. The poll posed the question, "How would you vote if there were a general election held next Sunday?" SYRIZA received 14.5%...

Results of a recent survey published by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, point to leftist SYRIZA with 22% of votes, as the party with most public support currently in Greece, albeit by a small margin. Nea Dimokratia under the leadership of Prime...

The government is blocking the new legislation for the integration of homosexual couples in the cohabitation agreement after the reactions of MPs of Nea Dimokratia and the church. The Greek government believes that the direct promotion of the legislation...

Greece's ruling New Democracy Conservatives have taken a razor-thin lead from the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party as the two continue to trade places heading opinion polls. A survey by Metron Analysis for Sunday's Eleftherotypia newspaper...

The ruling New Democracy Conservatives are in a neck-and-neck battle with the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party among Greeks, who also are split over whether the government has done enough to catch tax evaders and...

With more rescue loans pouring in, Greeks are feeling better about their country's prospects, giving a boost to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy (ND) party that has swung back into the lead in popularity over the major opposition...