politics

On Sunday, the president of New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during his official 3-day visit in Israel. After the meeting Mitsotakis commented that the exchange between himself and Rivlin was "exceptionally interesting and very warm",...

A political storm was fueled a year after the Greek referendum with the release of American economist James Galbraith's book about Plan B for Greece drafted by former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The book, titled "Welcome to the Poison...

The full revision of the EU border agency FRONTEX’s mandate and its renaming to European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) to allow for a better and faster safeguarding of the EU's external borders was discussed in the session of...

The government's draft bill with proposed changes to the electoral law was posted for public consultation in Greek Parliament on Friday. The new bill makes a number of changes, such as the elimination of a 50-seat bonus for the winning party...

Anyone who thought that NATO’ patrols in the Aegean sea would solve the problem of smugglers taking migrants from Turkey to Greece needs a reality check. “630 refugees and migrants landed on Greek shores during the last 24 hours,” said...

When the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) came to Greece's rescue in May 2010 with a 110 billion euro bailout loan in order to avoid the default of a eurozone member state (a second bailout...

With the review process of the new bailout program under way and Greece’s creditors pushing for more austerity and a deeper adjustment into the nation’s pension system than the one proposed by the Tsipras government, the Greek Prime Minister...

The increasing number of migrants and refugees reaching the shores of Greece, Italy, and other European countries has done more than just create a collective action problem for Europe. “The only ones who benefit from the lack of a common European response...

Greece's current Migration Minister; Dimitris Mouzalas admitted that jihadists were able to pass through the Greek border along with the thousands of refugees arriving in the country daily. The migrants and refugees are arriving on the Greek islands close...

  Click on the info-graphic below to see the updated results for the Greek election as they are published in real time by Greece's Ministry of Interior.