European elections

Follow updates of the official results for the European and local elections, as provided by the ministry of interior.

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras called for snap elections after his SYRIZA party was completely routed in the European and local elections held on Sunday. Tsipras said that he will request the Greek President to dissolve the Greek parliament immediately after...

The Greek conservative opposition New Democracy Party (ND) has won the European and local elections in Greece, dealing a severe blow to PM Alexis Tsipras and his ruling SYRIZA party. Official forecasts say that ND has triumphed by almost nine...

Greece's center-right New Democracy (ND) party is the clear winner of the European elections held on Sunday, according to the joint exit poll presented by Greece's major television stations at 19:00 local time. ND is expected to win between 32.5...

Greek politicians on Sunday urged the millions of Greeks who are eligible to vote for the European and local elections to go to the polling stations and exercise their democratic right. The President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos on...

Millions of Greeks go the polling stations on Sunday to vote for the country's 21 representatives to the European Parliament. In parallel, they also vote for local, municipal and regional representatives. 9,922,294 voters (4,810,075 men, 5,122,219 women) are eligible to...

The campaign for Sunday's European and municipal elections closed on Friday with two major rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki. Speaking at Syntagma Square, PM Alexis Tsipras called on Greeks to cast their vote “for the Greece of the many,” and...

More than 400 million Europeans are heading to the polls to elect the 751 members of the European Union Parliament to new five-year terms. Containing 7.3 percent of the world's population, the EU in 2017 generated a nominal gross domestic...

As Greece heads for the polls this coming Sunday to elect its representatives to the European Parliament, the question is not who will win, but by how much. The bellwether EU plebiscite is held in parallel with Greek municipal and...

US-based company Lime, which operates motorized scooters, announced on Monday that it will provide up to 15 hours' worth of urban rides free of charge on May 26, the day of the European Elections. The decision of the American company...