Syriza

The Greek Parliament late Tuesday night passed a draft law concerning principles of the migration code. The new bill was supported by New Democracy, PASOK (ELIA) and DIMAR, but rejected by Independent Greeks (ANEL), Golden Dawn, and the Greek Communist Party (KKE). Opposition...

After reaching a still mostly-secret agreement with international lenders, which included a big cut in how much money from a primary surplus would go to people most affected by austerity, Greece now wants a quick release of a long-delayed...

Recent opinion polls have been a cause for irritation for the leadership of SYRIZA. The polls that have been published during the last 24 hours show contradictory estimates and a halting of the momentum that the party has developed. A...

Just when things get grim in Greece, you can always turn to the vanishing PASOK Anti-Socialists for a few yuks, featuring their answer to Abbott and Costello, current leader Evangelos "The Opportunist" Venizelos and the man he succeeded, so...

Greek officials on March 16 were pushing to meet a self-imposed deadline by the end of the day to conclude a long-sought deal with envoys from official lenders before a next-day session of Eurozone finance ministers in hopes of...

As far as polls are concerned the electoral field has been converted into a tight knot for all parties, since it appears that people are still undecided. Two new polls that were published today, essentially show that the undecided vote...

Greece is raising the prospect of debt relief with international lenders as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced a primary surplus of 1.5 billion euros as proof the country's battered economy will begin to rebound this year. Samaras said, however, he...

  The parliamentary group of Greece’s major opposition party, SYRIZA, decided that the party’s MPs will vote in favor of the immunity lift of Golden Dawn’s MPs, after a similar recommendation was made by SYRIZA’s political secretariat last week. However, during...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' vow to return 70 percent of an expected 1.5 billion euro ($2.07 billion) primary surplus to people most affected by crushing austerity measures is being challenged by international lenders who want more of it diverted...

While praising Greece publicly for making progress on reforms, Eurozone finance chiefs privately told Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras they are disappointed at the lack of progress and pressured him to come to terms with international lenders by March 14. During...