Politics

ATHENS – Since it’s apparent that new PASOK Anti-Socialist leader Evangelos “Mr. Tax Man,” Venizelos, the World Heavyweight Bombast Champion, is leading his party to defeat in the May 6 election, and as the leading New Democracy Capitalists are...

Greece will pay 20 percent less to hold a general election on May 6 than it cost in 2009, as the government tries to cut down on spending in a second year of austerity measures. The May 6 vote will...

ATHENS – Bank of Greece Governor George Provopoulos has given another dire warning about the country’s economy, foreseeing that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will shrink 5 percent this year and urged whomever wins the May 6 elections to...

ATHENS – Still lagging in the polls as the May 6 elections approach, the PASOK Socialist party has recruited former Olympic and World Champion weightlifter Pyrros Dimas, who had vowed he would never be involved in politics, to head...

A European arrest warrant was issued yesterday against former Greek Cyprus army Chief Petros Tsalikides, charged in connection with a deadly munitions blast, after he failed to appear in court, officials said. According to hurriyetdaily, Tsalikides’ seven co-defendants were in...

ATHENS – Greece’s curious campaign laws, which allow the ruling parties to dominate television coverage regardless of newsworthiness, have been amended by the country’s highest court, the Council of State, opening the airwaves to smaller political parties, including the...

ATHENS – PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos said he believes the May 6 elections will not give his party or their bitter rival opponents of the New Democracy Conservatives a mandate, and that the uncertainty is raising the possibility...

Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras promised on Sunday to cut taxes and increase social spending, without missing the targets set by international lenders, if he wins the May 6 national election. Samaras, the front runner in the race, has often...

ATHENS - For nearly two years, Greeks have rallyed against pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions imposed by the government as a condition of getting bailouts from international lenders, protesting and rioting and striking and vowing to throw...

ATHENS – PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, whose party is floundering in the polls, said if elected Prime Minister in the May 6 elections he would push international lenders who have imposed austerity measures on Greece that he supported...

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on April 18 that Greece could return to growth if it sticks to reforms demanded by international lenders, a formula similar to what interim Prime Minister Lucas...

ATHENS – He is perhaps Greece’s most outspoken politician, and as he readies to retire, veteran PASOK Socialist Theodoros Pangalos still isn’t mincing his words, nor eating them, and said he’s standing by his statement that all Greeks are...

ATHENS – With their parties floundering in the polls as May 6 elections approach, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras has again asked Greeks to give him a mandate to rule the country outright. His bitter rival, PASOK Socialist leader...

ATHENS – Former Defense Minister and a founding member of the PASOK Socialist party Akis Tsochatzopoulos - who has been charged in connection with a money laundering scheme prosecutors said he used to hide millions of euros in secret...

"Choose4Greece" is a digital platform created by academics to advise Greeks which political party they should vote for in the upcoming elections on May 6. The platform gives voters the opportunity to "debate" with their own opinion and decide which political...