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The PASOK Follies: Unfunniest Show On Earth

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...

New Poll on Upcoming Greek Elections

A recent poll conducted on behalf of Greek pollster Metron Analysis for the newspaper “To Ethnos tis Kiriakis,” reveals marginal differences in voting intentions with regards to Greece’s two leading parties, New Democracy and SYRIZA, with the main opposition...

Kouvelis Backs Kaminis For Mayor

With the ruling New Democracy Conservatives in disarray over the Athens' Mayor's race - officially supporting one of its lawmakers as a candidate and snubbing another - who had the office - incumbent George Kaminis has picked up the...

SYRIZA Leads: So Does Samaras

Continuing their curious case of contradictions, Greek voters say they prefer the anti-austerity major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) to come to power but want to keep pro-austerity Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras...

Kouvelis, Loverdos Talk Team-Up

With his party on the verge of extinction, Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis is looking to hook up with a former PASOK Socialist minister, Andreas Loverdos, whose own new party Pact for a New Greece, doesn't even register...

Greek Doctors Extend Strike

Doctors of EOPYY have decided once more to extend their strike until February 7. On Thursday morning, doctors gathered outside the Social Insurance Institute (IKA) office in Pagrati and held a protest rally. “We are on strike not because...

Confused Greeks Favor SYRIZA, Coalition

On the heels of an earlier poll this month that showed the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) taking a big lead in Athens and Attica over the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras,...

SYRIZA Killing New Democracy, PASOK in Attica

A series of scandals, unresolved talks with the country's international lenders, and the escape of a terrorist seem to be taking their toll on Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition government and his New Democracy Conservatives, who have fallen 7.7...

Christmas Bonus for Greek Parties

The Greek parties received the third installment of the government grant for 2013, which amounts to 7 million euros. This "bonus" was given to all Greek parties except Golden Dawn according to a previous decision of the Parliament prohibiting the...

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%...