Syriza

The president of the major opposition party, Alexis Tsipras, while addressing the plenary session of the parliamentary group of SYRIZA earlier today, underlined that his party is strongly against the policies that the Memorandum imposes on Greek society. Furthermore,...

Stepping up a war of words with his rivals, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, has insisted that his coalition with the PASOK Socialists will survive critical May European Parliament elections and run out its...

In a posting on Facebook, Petros Tatsopoulos, a member of Greece's main opposition SYRIZA, said that he submitted his resignation to the party leader Alexis Tsipras on Thursday. Tatsopoulos, commenting on Christodoulos Xeros' escape, claimed that some members of his party were sympathetic towards...

The ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his rivals, the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) are squabbling in the aftermath of the escape of a November 17 terrorist serving six life sentences...

Alexis Tsipras, the leader of Greece's main opposition leftist party SYRIZA, won't be attending the official ceremony for the six month Greek EU presidency, in Athens Concert Hall. SYRIZA, with an official statement, announced that Tsipras' absence from the ceremony symbolizes the...

As Greece formally took over the symbolic European Union Presidency for six months on Jan. 8 with a ceremony including invited European officials, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said he would conclude negotiations with the country's international lenders during the...

European Parliament vice president Othmar Karas has postponed a visit to Athens, Greece, originally scheduled for January 8-9, according to an announcement by the European Parliament. The chairman of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Policy Committee had led...

As if Greece didn't have enough trouble as Jan. 1 loomed - the seventh consecutive year of a deep recession - Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' uneasy coalition of his New Democracy Conservatives and the PASOK Socialists, who are clinging...

New year, new name and new logo for Greece's major opposition party, SYRIZA.  The new official name of the party from the first day of the New Year will be changed to “SYRIZA- Coalition of Radical Left” from “SYRIZA-United...

A Kapa Research opinion poll carried out on behalf of the newspaper “TO VIMA,” gives SYRIZA a 0.8 percent lead over New Democracy. In particular, the opinion poll places the major opposition party first with 22.5 percent and second comes...