referendum

In the House’s summer session, 51 of the 100 MPs voted in favor of the creation and sale of the so-called “Small DEI,” which consists of 30 percent of the Public Power Company which has the monopoly of electrical...

The Greek Parliament has approved a bill splitting state utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) by carving away a subsidiary and selling it to private investors. The Parliament's first summer session, consisting of one-third of the total of 300 MPs, approved the...

The Greek government is not in favor of Parliament Speaker Vangelis Meimarakis’ view to debate on a possible referendum regarding the privatization of part of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) over the weekend if 120 MPs call for it. Meimarakis expressed his...

Opposition parties on Thursday agreed to a proposal by main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) party leader Alexis Tsipras to meet on Monday over the possibility of calling for a referendum against the Public Power Corporation's (PPC) privatization. Tsipras' initiative...

  When citizens in a democracy are deprived of the right to a referendum, a pseudo-democratic system will take root and ultimately erode people’s rights and lead to tyranny. Equally, some others will argue that direct democracy in essence embodies...

Parliamentary Spokesman of SY.RIZ.A.-Ε.Κ.Μ. Dimitris Papadimoulis stated: “The people have to show they are against nazism as well as that the large majority are against the memorandum and liberal policies.” Former Member of the European Parliament Papadimoulis expressed SYRIZA’s intention...

“Since Greece is such a geographically fragmented nation, do you think there is any movement for independence from any of the larger islands such as Crete?” No, this extract is not from some crazy local blog defending Crete’s independence...

According to the newspaper 'Die Zeit'  there are many who have, since Monday, been posing the question, ''Has the Greek prime minister gone crazy?"  An article of the newspaper answers this above mentioned question, commenting on the recent decision...

Greek Prime Minister fought off a barrage of criticism to win the backing of his cabinet Wednesday to push ahead with a referendum. Greece's cabinet voted Wednesday to support George Papandreou's call to hold a public vote as soon...

French newspaper Liberation makes an extensive report on the Greek economic crisis and what happened to the world's markets after the Greek Prime minister's decision for a referendum. The referendum will ask Greeks if they want to participate in...