Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Syriza

Out of bailout spotlight, Greeks feeling recovery pains at election

Greeks will head to the polls on Sunday to elect a leader who will have more control over the country’s economy for the first time in over a decade

The Independent UK

‘Our vote counts’: Greek politicians court teenagers in tight election race

Voters as young as 16 will play a pivotal role as country goes to the polls on Sunday

The Guardian - UK

As Greek elections loom, parties vie for votes of 'lost generation'

By Karolina Tagaris

Reuters

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Past austerity haunts Greek election as voters struggle with living costs

Fourteen years after a debt crisis that saw Greece nearly crash out of the euro, single parent Niki Klaoudatou says she worries more about money now than she did during the worst years of the country's economic meltdown.

Reuters

Factbox-Policies of main parties in Greece's May 21 election

Greece will hold a national election on May 21, as a cost-of living crisis takes its toll on households. The ruling conservative New Democracy party is so far leading left-wing Syriza in opinion polls.

Reuters

The AP Interview: Mitsotakis hopes for better relations with Turkey if reelected as Greek premier

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview that he will extend “a hand of friendship” to the winner of the upcoming Turkish election and try to build on the momentum of recently reduced tensions

The Independent UK

Greece prepares for elections that may herald a new political era

PM Mitsotakis will fight to keep leading the country, which is reeling from a rail crash and worries about the economy.

Al Jazeera

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Campaign for Greek election begins with dissolved parliament

The campaign for Greece’s May 21 national election has officially opened with the dissolution of the parliament that was elected in July 2019

The Independent UK

Greece's prime minister makes border wall an election pledge

Greece’s prime minister has promised to extend a wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkey

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Greece gears for election on May 21, how the system works

ATHENS Reuters) - Greece will hold a parliamentary election in May, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday, with the country gearing up for a vote which is unlikely to produce an outright winner immediately .

Reuters

Greek parties bleed votes between a train disaster and election

Dozens were killed when a passenger train collided with a freight train in Greece’s worst-ever train accident.

Al Jazeera

Protesters clash with riot police in Greece during strike over deadly train disaster

Protesters threw petrol bombs at a police cordon near the Greek parliament

Evening Standard

Greek court finds former minister guilty of breach of duty in TV licences case

A Greek court ruled on Friday that a leftist lawmaker, the closest aide of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, was guilty of breach of duty for his role in a 2016 television licences tender, the semi-state Athens News Agency said.

Reuters

Greece's main opposition party to abstain from votes in parliament

Greece's main opposition Syriza party said on Tuesday it would abstain from any parliamentary votes until a national election is held, in protest over the conservative government's handling of a phone tapping scandal.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Greek PM survives confidence vote but phone-tapping scandal rumbles on

Opposition leader Alexis Tsipras describes Kyriakos Mitsotakis as mastermind of ‘a criminal network’

The Independent UK

Greek government survives no-confidence vote over wiretaps

Greece’s government has survived, as expected, a no-confidence vote following a motion by the country’s opposition leader over a wiretapping scandal that has stung the center-right governing party in the run-up to elections

The Guardian - UK

Greek government faces confidence vote over spying row

Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis accused of orchestrating mass wiretaps of political allies and foes

The Independent UK

Greek government faces no confidence vote over wiretaps

The leader of Greece’s main opposition party has filed a no confidence motion in the government over a wiretapping scandal that has stung the center-right ruling party ahead of elections this year

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reuters

Greek opposition submits censure motion over phone tapping scandal

The head of Greece's largest opposition party submitted a censure motion against the conservative government on Wednesday, accusing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of orchestrating mass wiretaps of political allies and foes.

The Guardian - UK

‘The jewel has lost its shine’: how the world reacted to the UK’s pound crisis

The turmoil stirred condemnation in the US, bitter memories in Greece and interest among holidaymakers in Singapore

The Guardian - UK

Greece to launch parliamentary inquiry into spy scandal

Move follows revelations that opposition leader was placed under surveillance while serving as MEP

Reuters

Greek parliament sets up inquiry commission to probe phone tapping scandal

Greek lawmakers on Monday voted in favour of setting up an inquiry commission to probe the phone tapping of an opposition leader that led Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to sack the head of the country's intelligence service (EYP).

The Independent UK

Greek PM defends workings of intelligence service

Greece’s prime minister has defended the workings of the country’s intelligence service in the face of a wiretapping scandal, saying its operation is essential to the country’s security despite what he described as the misstep of tapping an opposition politician’s phone

Reuters

Greek intelligence service admits spying on journalist - sources

The head of Greek intelligence told a parliamentary committee his agency had spied on a journalist, two sources present said, in a disclosure that coincides with growing pressure on the government to shed light on the use of surveillance malware.

AFP

Muslim refugees in Athens seek own cemetery

Schisto (Greece) (AFP) - Standing by the tiny grave of his five-year-old son in the Orthodox Christian cemetery of Schisto on the outskirts of Athens, Esfandiyar Fagkiri says he feels a "dual pain".

1 2 3 4

People

Katerina Sakellaropoulou

Constantine Mitsotakis

10 stories

Costas Baltas

10 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.