Politics

The Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou, during the governmental meeting to discuss issues concerning the drugs and addictions, accused the oppositional party of ND by saying : "a sensitive state does its best to face the addictions", adding...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras pledged on Monday evening that his party would abolish a ruling PASOK law granting Greek nationality to immigrants and accused the government of introducing "dissolving phenomena in Greek society". ...

SYRIZA (Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology) party president Alexis Tsipras referred in Istanbul on Friday night to the ongoing economic crisis at the 6th Social European Forum. During his speech he mentioned that "the strategy that was being...

The Political Committee of the ND party elected Andreas Lykuretzos in the post of the party’s secretary. Mr. Lykourezos was the only candidate who received unanimous support. “We are ready to support the ideas and program of the ND...

Samaras appointed Dimitris Avramopoulos and Stavros Dimas as the party’s two vice presidents to support his bid to attract middle-class voters back to the party following its disastrous performance in last year’s general election. Samaras decision to appoint two vice...

Greece's two main umbrella unions said Thursday that they have called for another general 24 hour strike for Thursday, July 8 over proposed pension and labor reforms. It will be the sixth joint stoppage this year by Greece's main public...

Prime Minister George Papandreou, addressing a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, stressed that "the targets we had set in our programme are valid in full." Nevertheless, the conceded that some of the issues, such as those concerning salaries, are being temporarily...

The whole country and especially Athens, is strucked by strikes. Pireaus Port, faces numerous serious problems beacause of the PAME memebers, who make sailing difficult and even impossible.  In the morning, each and every ship managed to sail, however...

A nationwide strike is expected to shut down Greece on Tuesday, when more than 3 million public and [...]

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras addressed the last day of the party's 8th congress in a southern Athens indoor stadium on Sunday by emphasising that ND's goal is to relieve the country of the memorandum it...

On Sunday, Fotis Kouvelis and the members of the renewal group who walked out of the SYN party announced the foundation of a new left-wing political party, expected to bear the name "Renewal Democratic Left" and the election of...

Greek government spokesman George Petalotis sent an official letter to "The Guardian" newspaper on Friday, categorically rejecting a report published in the English daily newspaper regarding "plans to sale Greek islands" to foreigners, especially Chinese and Russian, to tackle...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras opened his party’s 8th congress on Friday, underlining the leading role ND can play in the new era, because it has “voted down the memorandum (signed with the IMF, ECB, EU...

The Greek cabinet on Friday gave the green light to the draft bill to overhaul the local pension system and labor law. The reforms were supposed to come to parliament this week, but there were delays in negotiations of the...

"Without the help of the Greeks abroad, we will not be able to rebuild the country the way it deserves," main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras said on Thursday, addressing the party's first Ecumenical Hellenism conference held...