Suddenly and unexpected the former powerful man in PASOK and ex PSI finance minister Evaggelos Venizelos gently found himself outside the party he served for several decades. On Saturday, a day before the second round of the regional and local elections, KINAL/PASOK president Fofi Gennimata told him that he would …

Moses Elisaf is the first Greek Jew ever elected as mayor in Greece. He was elected in the city of Ioannina, north-west Greece, once the heartland of Romaniote Jewish tradition. The  65 -year-old professor of medicine at the University of Ioannina Medical School ran as an independent candidate. He won …

The new system of  the so-called “simple proportionality” in the municipality elections is depriving winning mayors of the absolute seats majority in local councils and forces them into alliances. In 58 municipalities winning mayors have fewer seats in the city councils than the opposition. In Thessaloniki, for example, the new …

The new Archbishop of America Elpidophoros has said that his top priority is to unite the expatriate community. Elpidophoros, who is currently visiting Athens, was speaking after a meeting with Foreign Minister George Katrougalos and Deputy Foreign Minister Terence Quick at the foreign ministry in Athens on Friday. Concerning the …

For the first time in its history yield of the Greek 10-Year bond dropped below 3% and was trading at 2.98% on Friday. The 5-year b0nd recorded also a historic low trading at 1.8%. Yields for the Greek 10-year benchmark bond fell below 3.0 percent for the first time in …

Suspected members of far-right Golden Dawn have desecrated a Muslim cemetery in Alexandroupolis, Northern Greece, on Wednesday. they painted party symbols and left leaflets with nationalistic content. They painted symbols of the party and far-right organization ‘Stohos” on the graves. They also left flyers with Golden Dawn slogan reading “Greece …

Selecting the candidate of European People’s Party as European Commission president would be a negative development for Europe, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said at the preparatory meeting of the Party of European Socialists (PES) on Tuesday. For the Greek Prime Minister the German candidate Weber (CSU) is “extremely conservative” and …

Ambitious “Europe reformer” and enfant terrible of Greek and European finances Yanis Varoufakis and his party MeRA25 narrowly missed a seat in the European Parliament. From Monday to Tuesday afternoon, the live results transmitted via the website of the Greek Interior Ministry were showing that MeRA25 had collected 3.1% of …

Greek voters have sent member of far-right Golden Dawn Yiannis Lagos to the European Parliament although he is on trial and not allowed to leave Greece. According to the elections results so far, GD won two seats in the EP. Together with other GD members Lagos is on trial as …

Ultra-nationalist and admirer of conspiracy theories of all kinds Kyriakos Velopoulos sold everything he could on his own TV show: from tooth paste, wonder remedies against baldness and books to “exclusive copies of Jesus Christ’s handwritten letters.” The far-right populist is the big surprise in the European elections in Greece. …

While local leaders struggled to beat their competitors and some will have to go to a second round of elections next Sunday, one mayor managed to be elected with 100% of the votes. 32-year-old Maria Kakali on the remote island of Agios Efstratios had no competitor at all. From 210 …

Some 30 members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas threw red paint at the Greek Parliament at Tuesday noon in solidarity with 17. November convict Dimitris Koufontinas. The group attacked at Parliament around 2 o’ clock Tuesday afternoon. The group walked up the stairs from the Monument of Unknown Soldier, threw …

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras open the window for more benefits saying “our goal is a Christmas bonus” for the country’s pensioners. Speaking to news247 FM on Monday, Tsipras said that the government the so-called “13th pension equivalent to Easter bonus before it was cut due to austerity measures imposed by …

Unknown perpetrators have destroyed the whole load of municipality elections ballots of the far-right party Golden Dawn in the suburb of Kallithea, south Athens. The perpetrators used antiseptic Bedatine that soaked into the 92,000 ballot papers thus destroying them completely. According to local media, the incident took place short before …

The overwhelming majority of Greek Parliament approved the Labor Ministry bill introducing the 120-installment settlement for debtors to the state as well as the package of “relief measures” like the reduction of Value Added Tax and the so-called “13th pension.” The bill was voted in principle by ruling party SYRIZA, …

With express procedures the Greek government submitted to Parliament draft laws regarding the relief measures announced last week by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as well as the 120-installments settlement for debtors to the state. The so-called 120 installment draft law, including the debt settlement to the social security funds, tax  …

“If we are certain that the Greek economy produces fiscal space and we have the opportunity to take further relief measures to restore the injustices, of course we will do it,” government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Sunday. Tzanakopoulos was speaking to radio 9.84FM, when he was asked whether the …

The Greek government survived one more confidence vote on Friday, as expected. Out of 289 present lawmakers 153 voted in favor and 136 against. In favor voted also a lawmaker from the Centrists’ Union. The confidence vote came after main opposition New Democracy filed a censure motion against Alternate Health …

Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy has been playing dirty ahead of European and local elections and on the occasion of the confidence vote in the Parliament. On Wednesday during the debate in Parliament, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed that the deceased father of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and a …

Greeks cheered on Tuesday to hear the reduction of Value Added Tax form 24% to 13%. On Thursday, they were deeply disappointed to learn that their most favorite drink, the coffee, won’t be any cheaper. The Greek Finance Ministry clarified on Wednesday evening that the V.A.T. in Coffee, Tea, Chamomile …