Greece

Where else in the world would the wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, crush his birthday party than in the hedonism capital of Mykonos in Greece? The disgraced former stockbroker, resurrected by his tell-all autobiography then made famous by Leonardo...

  At a meeting today on the cosmopolitan island of Mykonos, Greek Citizens Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis vowed that police authorities in the country would be heightening their enforcement of the many rules and regulations designed to stem the further...

It was announced on Thursday that the first Parliamentary vote to elect the next Greek President will take place on Wednesday, January 22. According to the recently-amended Greek Constitution, the first vote requires a 2/3 majority for a candidate to...

The Areopagus, the Supreme Court of the nation of Greece, announced on Wednesday the parties and coalitions which have been granted permission to participate in the upcoming national elections of July 7, 2019. From a total of twenty-four applications made by...

A total of twenty-four parties and party coalitions have submitted their name and logo to the Supreme Court prosecution of Greece, declaring their intention to participate in Greece's general elections on July 7. More specifically, twenty parties have declared their...

There is a grand total of forty-nine parties in Greece registered to contest in the elections for the European Parliament on May 26 -- ranging from the extreme to the absurd. Although the country has only twenty-one seats in the...

Populist parties in Europe have tripled their parliamentary power in the past 20 years, with most of them leaning to the right with the exception of Greece's leftist SYRIZA that came to power, according to a study conducted by...

Opposition parties reacted strongly to the keynote speech Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gave on Saturday at the opening of the Thessaloniki International Fair. All parties accused Tsipras of promising things that he can not deliver and commented on his...

New Democracy and Movement for Change called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call early elections, during the Greek Parliament plenary on Wednesday. The plenary was to discuss the state of the economy and the day after the end of...

Events for this year's Patras Carnival in western Greece are coming to a climax this weekend, when the celebration season ends with the Grand Parade, the burning of the 'carnival king' and a fireworks display. Up to 30,000 people have...

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Greek opposition politicians were briefly united on Saturday, if only in their lack of agreement over the 'Macedonia' name dispute and over their antipathy to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' strategy. The premier held face-to-face meetings with a succession of party...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres plans to continue with his "good offices" mission for a Cyprus settlement “as soon as the parties have an agreement for those 'good offices'”, to be put in place. (The term "good offices"; which is...

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades has said that it is time to get rid of the presence of third parties, or those who want the third parties to control Cyprus. The President wondered who would ever support...

The UN and their good offices remain available to the parties in Cyprus, should the parties come back to the UN Secretary General, the UN SG`s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday. He also noted that this is a...