European Parliament

On Thursday night, European Union leaders appointed Greek-Cypriot Christos Stylianides, member of the European Parliament, as the new commissioner for humanitarian affairs and crisis management. One of his main goals will be to coordinate EU efforts to combat the...

An official delegation from the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education is to visit the Amphipolis archaeological site in 2015, it was announced on Tuesday. The visit was decided following proposals made by the Greek MEPs George Grammatikakis...

In a recent interview to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, German MEP Gabi Zimmer, leader of left-wing Die Linke in European Parliament, argued that Germany must pay war reparations to Greece, for damages caused by the Nazi occupation. Zimmer said that her party has...

High debt and unemployment are the most important problems that the Greek economy is facing, Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem told the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Thursday. Dijsselbloem had good things to say about Greece during...

Greek SYRIZA MEP Manolis Glezos, wrote an emotionally-charged letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to rethink Russia's import embargo to Greek goods. Glezos pleaded to Putin to exclude Greek agricultural products from Russia's recently announced embargo on imports from the EU, the...

About 65% of European citizens believe that they are contributing members of the wider European Community. However, in some countries the number is significantly lower. According to preliminary data of a survey conducted by Eurobarometer and released by the EU, citizens in three...

Alexandros Lyris, a Golden Dawn member who is also part of the political party’s youth front, was rewarded with a job position in the European Parliament in Brussels. Lyris is now the new advisor to Golden Dawn's MEP Lambros...

AP - The European Parliament has elected former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker as the new leader of the 28-nation bloc's executive arm. Lawmakers in Strasbourg on Tuesday voted 422-250 for the 59-year-old who will take over as European Commission...

NICOSIA,(AP) - A group of Cypriots has filed a war crimes complaint against Turkey at the International Criminal Court over what they say is its policy of settling Cyprus' breakaway north with mainland Turks. Cyprus split into a Turkish-speaking north...

The European Parliament has elected German center-left politician Martin Schulz as the assembly's president. Schulz, who also served as president of the Parliament from 2012 until earlier this year, was re-elected Tuesday with a majority of 409 votes of the 723...