KKE
Greece
New Democracy Leads SYRIZA By 0.1%
The ruling party New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras continue to hold a paper-thin lead over the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) a 0.1 percent margin that is negligible given the margin of...
Economy
Greek Communists Sell TV, Radio Stations
Greece's Communist Party (KKE) has sold its 902 radio and television stations to a private investor, a Capitalist maneuver, with the transfer expected to be completed by the end of August.
The deal for sale of the two broadcasters foresees...
Greece
New Democracy Still Leads SYRIZA
Continuing a trend in recent polls, the ruling New Democracy (ND) party is maintaining a 1 percent point lead over its major opposition rival the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA,) a virtual dead heat given the margin of...
Greece
New Democracy Reigns, DIMAR, PASOK Irrelevant
Just as PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, who withdrew his objection to the closing of the national broadcaster ERT, is being rewarded with key ministerial positions for his party in a new coalition government, a poll shows that if...
Greece
Coalition Talks Off, No Deal On ERT as Kouvelis Leaves Greek Government
A third meeting this week between Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, and his reluctant partners, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, failed to reach agreement late on June...
Crime
ERT Re-Transmitters Face Penalties
With defiant journalists and workers at the Greek national broadcaster ERT - which the government shut down on June 11 - staying on the air and being shown on the Internet and through the Communist KKE channel, the government...
Greece
ERT Solidarity Demonstrations Throughout Greece
Despite the 24-hour strike of the Greek media, which has spread throughout Greece to protest against the government’s decision to shut down the state public broadcaster, radio and TV stations will be able to cover the solidarity demonstrations and...
Greece
Solidarity March for Turkey Rebels
A solidarity march from leftist parties took place on the main streets of Xanthi on June 11 in support of the Turkish rebels.
The Committee of solidarity to Turkish citizens, consists of SYRIZA, ANTARSYA and KKE members, who originally gathered...
events
Distomo Remembers 1944 Nazi Massacre
June 10 was a somber day in the Greek village of Distomo, the 69th anniversary of the massacre of most of its citizens by Nazis in a reprisal raid.
On that day in 1944, an SS phalanx, along with other...
Greece
New Democracy Opens Lead Over SYRIZA
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' relentless drumbeat that he has saved Greece from economic collapse, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, nonetheless is paying off as a poll by the MRB agency shows his New Democracy Conservatives have...