PASOK

The interview of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on ANT1 television on Tuesday evening sparked an immediate, strong reaction from opposition parties. "Mr. Tsipras has been divorced from Greek reality," says the statement issued by New Democracy. "His current interview...

An extraordinary PASOK Congress is going to take place shortly announced PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata on Tuesday at the Democratic Alliance parliamentary group meeting. The congress is expected to elect the members of PASOK’s main bodies, i.e. the central committee,...

The win of independent candidate Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French presidential election on Sunday is a win of the liberal forces over the leftwing and rightwing populism, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted on Sunday,...

On Friday night, masked individuals threw Molotov cocktails into a platoon of police officers guarding the offices of the PASOK political party in Exarchia in central Athens. The incident occurred shortly before midnight on Friday evening and resulted in two...

"During tough times, a Greek can become a hero or a slave," said legendary Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis in an interview published in Proto Thema Sunday newspaper. The 92-year-old musician, who is also an emblematic figure of the Greek Left,...

A new nationwide survey published on Wednesday shows New Democracy 11.8 percentage points ahead of SYRIZA in voting intention, with ND gathering 28.6% of citizens preferences and SYRIZA 16.8%. The poll was conducted by RASS using a sample of 1,504...

By Thimios Tzallas The fate of Greece’s ‘Blairites’ provides a bitter lesson for centre-left parties across Europe, argues Thimios Tzallas. It is very often argued that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund got it wrong with the Greek crisis. They overestimated...

A new opinion poll shows that the voting intention rate for New Democracy is 25.8% against 15.6% of SYRIZA, while eight out of ten Greeks give a negative review of the government's performance in the past two years. The survey...

A new exhibition in Athens celebrates the 1980s in Greece, a period that today's debt-ridden Greeks glorify as a time of social changes, reforms and the beginning of an elusive prosperity. "GR80s, Greece in the Eighties at Technopolis" is the...

A parliamentary committee decided that there is no evidence of criminal activities regarding loans given by Greek banks to political parties and media organizations in previous years. The committee that oversaw the investigation concluded that there is no criminal liability...