European Parliament
Greece
PASOK Calls Grow For Venizelos' Head
PASOK MP Thanos Moraitis, joining a chorus of dissent against party leader Evangelos Venizelos, has become the first to call for the Socialist chief to step down as its popularity keeps plummeting.
Moraitis was the first in the party to...
Economy
Tsipras Says Farage, Le Pen Austerity Monsters
Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, who has benefited from opposition to austerity measures, said he's not interested in working with other leaders of other protest parties in England and France who made...
Economy
After EU Loss, Samaras Plans Shakeup
Following his coalition's defeat in European Parliament elections to the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is mulling yet another rejiggering of his Cabinet and reportedly is even considering whether to ask other...
Greece
Final Greek Results of the European Parliament Elections
With all votes finally counted, Greece’s Interior Ministry published Monday evening the final results of the European Parliament vote and the MEPs elected to represent the country in Strasbourg. The turnout across Greece reached 59.96 percent, with 5,931,835 out of 9,892,622 registered...
Economy
Samaras, Venizelos Repeat: No Snap Polls
The long and rancorous campaign for Greek municipalities and the European Parliament, which saw the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) come in first, won't bring national elections, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said.
The 3.8 percent win by...
Greece
2014 Euro-Elections: The 21 Elected Greek MEPs
With a sufficient percentage of votes (about 8%) counted until Monday morning, May 26, we have the newly elected Greek MEPs of the 2014 Euro-elections held yesterday.
From the 21 seats of Greece in the European Parliament, SYRIZA gets six...
Europe
UKIP, Golden Dawn, Far-Right Keeps Rising in Europe
In what was called a "political earthquake," far-right extremists parties - from Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn to the National Front in France and even up to Denmark - rose to take seats in the European Parliament elections.
Analysts said the...
Crime
Samaras Says Election Loss Changes Nothing
Despite a loss of some 3.8 percent to the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) in European Parliament elections, Greece's Prime Minister and New Democracy conservative leader Antonis Samaras said his coalition with the PASOK socialists has...
Economy
SYRIZA Touts Historic Triumph, New Democracy Says No Snap Elections
With exit polls and early results showing the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on track to lose the May 25 European Parliament elections by 3 percent to the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left...
Europe
2014 European Election Results: See How Europe Voted (infographic)
See the European Election results from all EU countries in real time. With an increase in voter turnout, Europe is deciding its future in one of the most important European elections of all time.
One of the largest democratic events...