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Greece: European & Municipal Election Results in real time (infographic)

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...

Surprising Poll of Greek University

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%...

Intense Reactions Block Legislation for Same-Sex Couples

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...

SYRIZA Wants Venizelos Probed in Sub Deal

Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party has asked for a parliamentary inquiry into the role that Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, the PASOK Socialist leader, played in the handling of a submarine deal three years...

SYRIZA Still Leads New Democracy in Polls

As Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras readies to see if Parliament next week will back his $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan for 2013-14 that has given rise to social unrest, his party...

Georgia Samaras: The New "First Lady" of Greece

The Greek elections are finally over (one more time) and a new government has been formed aiming at leading the country out of the crisis. Party leaders have attracted international media attention for quite a long time now, but...

Odysseas Elitis' Partner Asks For Withdrawal of New Democracy Pre-election Ad

Strong reaction from Greek poet and Nobelist Odysseas Elitis' partner, Ioulitas Iliopoulou, regarding a New Democracy ad that includes verses of Elitis' poems as well as photos from his Nobel Awards ceremony; she is asking for the withdrawal of the campaign spot. She is claiming...

Antonis Samaras Meets With Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople greeted the leader of the Greek conservative party of Nea Dimokratia, Antonis Samaras, today in Fener, Istanbul. Samaras visited His Eminence around 1:30pm, accompanied by his wife and the spokesperson of Nea Dimokratia,...

ΕRT Outrages With Champions League Broadcasting Offer

Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation’s (ERT) proposal of purchasing the coverage of UEFA Champions League for the period 2012-2015 over 18 or 24 million Euros has outraged political representatives of the Greek Parliament with Nea Dimokratia seeking justice to the Supreme...

Turkish Prime Minister Remarks on FYROM Name Dispute

Νea Dimokratia Party has accused the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tagip Erdogan of destabilizing relations, collaboration and peace in the Balkan peninsula and Southeastern Europe after the latter’s supportive declarations to FYROM on the name dispute with Greece. Erdoğan was...