Politics

Evangelos Venizelos, the Greek Socialist party leader, has been unable to form a national unity government after holding last-ditch talks with rivals, party officials have said. "Venizelos will return the mandate tomorrow to President Karolos Papoulias," a senior Socialist PASOK...

More than half of all police officers in Greece voted for pro-Nazi party Golden Dawn in the elections of May 6. This is the disconcerting result of an analysis carried out by authoritative newspaper To Vima in several constituencies...

ATHENS – Just as it appeared Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos might be able to form a shaky coalition government, another feud broke out between political leaders. German officials also said Greece would not get any more money from international...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed alarm that Greece’s neo-Nazi party garnered enough votes in this week’s election to earn seats in Parliament, and urged the president of Greece to refuse to appoint any neo-Nazi party members to the cabinet. The...

The euro area could handle Greece’s exit from the currency union because the risk of contagion has waned, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was quoted as saying in comments to the Rheinische Post newspaper. “We have learned a lot in...

Despite the fact that it is impossible to predict how soon the votes will result in changes in actual policy, May 6 was a good start for Greeks, for the French and for all the European people to be...

The world-class blog publishing platform “Wordpress” suspended the blog-spot of Golden Dawn, the notorious right-wing party which seems to be prevailing in press coverage. The site might even be permanently shut down as a result of increasing complaints by...

ATHENS – After Alexis Tsipras, leader of the SYRIZA Radical Coalition of the Left, failed in his bid to create a coalition government in the wake of Greece’s May 6 elections which resulted in a mandate against austerity measures...

ATHENS – While Greek politicians squabble over who can – or can’t – form a coalition government in the wake of May 6 elections in which anti-austerity rage caused a fractured result, more than 1,000 businesses in Greece are...

The President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso expressed his concerns during a press conference today over the election of the far-right Golden Dawn party in the May 6 elections in Greece, underlining that the EU must be...

The PASOK party broke a record of missing votes during the May 6 elections. Compared to its 2009 voters, the party lost 2,179,013 people who, this time, supported mostly the Radical Left Coalition and the Democratic Left parties, or the Independent...

German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported today that the EU/IMF/ECB Troika will not follow through with its planned mid-May visit to Athens due to pending political developments. According to its sources, the German daily noted that the Troika will await all the...

State Secretary and spokesperson of the German government Steffen Seibert told reporters today, when asked if Angela Merkel is willing to meet with the left-wing SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, that the German Chancellor only meets with heads of states...

ATHENS – With Europe and world markets watching anxiously, Greece’s hopes of forming a coalition government were deadlocked in debate over whether to stick to austerity measures demanded by international lenders in return for two bailouts of $325 billion...

Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras gave an ultimatum to Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos, asking them to renounce support for the European Union-led bailout if they want to enter government. Tsipras demanded that the two political leaders send a...