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Venizelos Rules Out Snap Election

With polls showing the ruling parties trailing ahead of next month's elections for the European Parliament and Greek municipalities, socialist PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos has, unsurprisingly, snuffed out rumours of a snap general election. “There is no such issue,” Venizelos said...

PASOK In Panic Over Papandreou Defiance

PASOK's once-dominant Socialist party is in almost completely disarray in the aftermath of its former leader and previous Greek premier George Papandreou in an almost-open rebellion against the current leader, Evangelos Venizelos. Papandreou voted against a key banking article in...

SYRIZA Leading, But 'To Potami' Rising

A Pulse survey for the satirical newspaper To Pontiki (The Mouse) gives the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) a two percent edge over the ruling New Democracy in the May elections for the European Parliament, but...

The PASOK Follies: Unfunniest Show On Earth

Just when things get grim in Greece, you can always turn to the vanishing PASOK Anti-Socialists for a few yuks, featuring their answer to Abbott and Costello, current leader Evangelos "The Opportunist" Venizelos and the man he succeeded, so...

Shootout In PASOK Lifeboat

PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos' already shaky hold on his fast-fading once-dominant party took another blow when Infrastructure Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis sided with the group's previous leader, former premier George Papandreou in a dispute over whether the Leftists should...

Political Rift Uproots Olive Tree Movement

The founding congress of Greece's new Elia (Olive Tree) movement trying to unify the country's fractured left broke apart as it began when forces loyal to former prime minister George Papandreou refused to back current PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos...

Polls Show Death Knell for PASOK

Little more than four years after winning the Prime Minister's office with 44 percent of the vote, the PASOK Socialists who are partners in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservative government are on the edge of extinction with...

Olive Tree Down: PASOK, The 58 Fall Out

Greece’s already-fractured Center-Left spun out of control into a vortex on Feb. 25 when The 58 Initiative, a collection of intellectuals and academics hoping to unify the alignment, said it would not work with the vanishing PASOK Socialists to...

The 58 Can't Decide What They Want

Greece's latest center-left political movement, dubbed The 58 Initiative because it was begun by 58 academics, intellectuals and others disenchanted with the political system, brought together a lot of admirers when it launched in Athens, but a lot of...

Greek Food Hero Feeds Leeds’ Poor

With winter setting on the United Kingdom, Greek restaurateur George Psarias took it on himself to feed 100 hungry poor people with a delicacy from his homeland, lamb stifado. Psarias’ owner of The Olive Tree restaurant, each year supports the...