Syriza

ATHENS – Even as a new Parliament briefly met and dissolved, Greece’s political parties were taking shots at each other ahead of a second round of elections on June 17 that could decide whether the country stays in the...

The head of Greece's radical left party—throwing down a gauntlet that could increase tensions between Greece and its frustrated European creditors—said he sees little chance Europe will cut off funding to the country but that if it does, Athens...

Support for the Greek leftist Syriza party, which was the second-most popular party in elections earlier this month, has grown even more, a new poll showed Thursday, indicating that it would garner the most support in a fresh vote...

ATHENS – With the collapse of talks to form a coalition government in the wake of the May 6 stalemated elections that failed to give any party a mandate to rule, Greece has come under the temporary control of...

ATHENS – The office of Greek President Karolos Papoulias said Independent Greeks party leader Panos Kammenos had given the President a document offering to join a coalition government before talks broke down and was not telling the truth when...

25 activists from Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, as well as from Greece, participated in European demonstrations against the Greek crisis and the EU's and the IMF's policy. 16 were arrested early in the morning of May 15 in Syntagma Square in...

ATHENS – Greece’s rising political leader of the left, 37-year-old Alexis Tsipras, whose refusal to back a coalition government in favor of more austerity measures, has taken his SYRIZA party into the lead for prospective new elections, a poll...

The leader of Greece's radical left SYRIZA party spurned an invitation from the president to coalition talks on Monday aimed at forming a government after an inconclusive election. "Alexis Tsipras will not attend the meeting tomorrow," party official Nikos Pappas...

Until May 6, everything in the Greek political scene happened without SYRIZA. Now, if we get destroyed, if we get out of the euro, if we can’t form a government, if we can't cope with our debts, our loans,...

ATHENS – After leading his party to its worst-showing in elections since it was founded in 1974, new PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos has put the onus on his political council, forcing their resignation after a scathing speech in...