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A Greek special court convicted ex-minister of SYRIZA Nikos Pappas to a maximum two-year sentence with a three-year probation Friday over the handling of a 2016 television licence tender under the former government. Pappas, who served as minister of digital...

Greek main opposition SYRIZA announced on Tuesday that it will boycott the Greek Parliament, a move slammed by the government which accused its leader Alexis Tsipras of "undermining parliamentary democracy." Tsipras accused the conservative New Democracy government of being “morally...

The Greek government survived a censure motion tabled by main opposition SYRIZA over the wiretapping scandal on Friday. 156 MPs voted against the motion and 143 in favor. A total of 299 MPs participated in the roll-call vote following a...

Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras tabled a no-confidence motion against the government on Wednesday and called on PM Mistotakis to resign over the phone tapping scandal. The leader of SYRIZA said that prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis cannot continue in his...

Greece and Hellenes around the world celebrated Epiphany on Friday, one of Christianity’s most important feasts. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, to which the Greek Orthodox Church also belongs, the feast of Epiphany is associated with the baptism of Jesus...

For the second week in a row, Greece has the highest electricity prices in the European Union. On Wednesday, the wholesale price was above 218 euros per MWh by far above every other country in the EU. By comparison, Bulgaria...

Greek main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras, who has been invited to the swearing-in ceremony of the new President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had a series of brief meetings and conversations with heads of state...

Opposition parties in Greece demanded the resignation of PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and requested snap elections during a heated debate in parliament over the wiretapping scandal. Main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras said that Mitsotakis not only knew about the wiretapping of...

Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras renewed his mandate as SYRIZA leader after an inner-party ballot on Sunday and expressed confidence that his party will win the next national election. It was the first time the leader of SYRIZA was directly...

An ethnic Greek fighter of the Azov battalion in Mariupol who appeared in a short video shown by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky during his speech at the Greek Parliament on Thursday caused controversy in Greece. The man identified himself with...