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By Andreas C Chrysafis The campaigns for the next elections for the European Parliament, scheduled for May 23-26, 2019, have already begun in earnest. A total of 751 parliamentary openings are currently up for grabs by those fortunate enough to...

Prokopios Pavlopoulos, the President of Greece, visited the European Union Commission's Headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon and spoke with the Greek employees of the Commission. He remarked to them that Greece is not willing to accept "any arbitrary interpretations" of the...

Manfred Weber, the European People’s Party (EPP) ''spitzenkandidat'' (lead candidate) for the European Commission Presidency in the May 2019 European elections, promises that the EU will "stand by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus and the Cypriot people." He...

The European Commission is nearing an agreement with the Greek government to approve Greece's draft budget for 2019, European sources said on state-run A.M.N.A. on Monday. The draft budget review is a process to which all Euro-zone countries must submit. In...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its Regional Economic Outlook for Europe report on Thursday, making a more positive forecast regarding the prospects of the Greek economy than the European Commission in its Autumn Forecast report, released the same...

The Greek government has taken a series of new measures in order to convince troika to return to Athens and start the negotiation process once again. These new measures are estimated to ensure approximately 1.2 billion euros for the Greek...

The Council of Presidents of the European Left finally came to the proposal of the nomination of the President of SYRIZA Mr. Alexis Tsipras for the position of President of the European Commission in the upcoming elections of 2014....

Greece, struggling through an economic crisis, isn't doing well with waste management either, finishing at the bottom of the 27 member states of the European Union in a report ranking how well countries do in collecting, sorting and dealing...

British financial journal, The Economist, published an article under the title “Is “Grexit” at hand? Greece has only a couple of weeks left to convince its creditors” expressing doubts whether the Greek government can succeed in convincing Troika that...

Commission proposal has been forwarded that allows the Member States of the Schengen Agreement to bring back border controls under strict conditions, in the case of mass entrance of illegal immigrants. According to the existing law, a Member State...