Greece

The Greek Parliament's Ethics Committee decided Thursday to propose to the plenum the lifting of immunity for extreme-right Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) party MPs Constantinos Barbaroussis and Elias Panagiotaros over the case of gunshots fired during the funeral of...

ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' partially new, revamped Cabinet was sworn in on June 10 as he attempts to recoup ground his New Democracy Conservatives lost to the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' revamped Cabinet, which still includes most of the familiar faces of his ruling New Democracy Conservatives and partner the PASOK Socialists, was dismissed by his rivals as a desperate attempt to regain standing after...

Greek Prime Minister kept most of his Cabinet intact on June 9, but shook it up a bit in the wake of his New Democracy Conservatives taking a beating in the European Parliament elections to the major opposition Coalition...

The Greek island of Lemnos continued to be shaken during Saturday night by dozens of mild aftershocks following the magnitude 6.5 earthquake that afternoon between Lemnos and Samothrace at a focal depth of 5 km. Seismologists believe the main earthquake took place yesterday and are now...

The general rehearsal for the transmission of the first round in the local elections was successfully completed. The first estimation on the results is anticipated to be transmitted at 11 p.m. Leading authorities of the Ministry of Interior watched as...

A new circular letter issued by the Greek Interior Ministry reminds all voters that expatriates and foreigners legally residing in Greece, as well as the citizens of the member states of the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway...

On the basis of the amendment proposed to Parliament by the Greek Minister of Interior, Yiannis Michelakis, the campaign period for the Greek local elections will be reduced from two to one month. According to Yiannis Michelakis' amendment, which was included in...

As a logjam over unresolved reforms remains with international lenders,  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is set to meet with his Deputy Premier, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, on March 5 to try to find a way to break...

The Greek Minister of Interior, Yiannis Michelakis announced his intent on lifting the ban on the publication of opinion polls fifteen days before the elections. During a radio interview, Yiannis Michelakis said that within the next few days, the Greek Ministry of...

The special investigating judges for the Golden Dawn case, Ioanna Klapa and Maria Dimitropoulou, have requested the Greek government to lift the parliamentary immunity of the rest of the party’s parliamentary group. More specifically, the investigators have requested the lift...

The Greek Minister of Interior Yiannis Michelakis announced his intentions of the signing of a treaty against racism (2014-2020) by the Member states with the participation of a representative of the European Commission within Greece's six-month EU Presidency. As noted...

The Greek interior ministry has already commenced its preparations for organizing the Greek vote in the upcoming European parliament elections for Greek citizens who reside in other EU countries and wish to exercise their electoral rights there. A circular letter...

The number of legal immigrants from Asia and Africa that have received a residence permit rose to 64,190, according to the central database of the Greek Ministry of Interior. This new data was part of the Greek Minister of Interior,...

An amendment brought to the Greek parliament that has been added to the justice ministry bill by the interior minister Yiannis Michelakis, is to change the provisions concerning the rights to vote or run in the Greek local elections. The...