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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...

Calls and text messages between European states are set to become considerably cheaper as of Wednesday, May 15. The decision to impose a ceiling on prices for calls between people in different EU member-states (and additionally the four EEA members,...

Greece is almost one month away from the crucial European Parliament elections of 2019, yet both the government and opposition have turned the political debate into a frenzy of scandal-talk, diverting public opinion by their endless bickering. To a certain...

Greeks who live abroad and wish to vote for Greek candidates in the upcoming European Elections have until April 5 to register to vote, the Greek Ministry of Interior announced on Friday. The Greek Ministry of the Interior originally wanted...

The European Parliament approved a new law on Wednesday which will ban single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery and straws. As a result of the new legislation, a wide range of products will be banned in the EU by...

Maria Spyraki was named a Member of the European Parliament of the Year in the category of "Industry, Research and Innovation" on Wednesday. Spyraki is an MEP for the European People’s Party, to which the New Democracy party belongs. "This prize...

The European Parliament's plenary session approved on Wednesday a proposal by its Foreign Affairs Committee to suspend all accession negotiations with Turkey. European lawmakers passed the proposal by 370 votes in favor, 109 against and 143 abstentions, after citing violations against...

  A new poll for the upcoming European Elections was published on Monday by the European Parliament. According to its findings, the center-right European People's Party (EPP) is expected to remain the largest party in the Parliament, with far-right populist parties...

A new report published by the London-based European Council on Foreign Relations says that far-right populist "Euroskeptic" parties could win up to one third of the 705-seat European Parliament in the upcoming May election. The report warns that the EU...

Greeks living in the United Kingdom who wish to vote in the EU elections will have to travel to neighboring European Union countries to do so, the Greek Embassy in London announced on Wednesday. Because the UK is set to leave the...