The national parliament, the symbol of representative and competitive democracy in Greece, has become purely symbolic and procedural in the way it votes for its austerity laws. External pressures ...

The national parliament, the symbol of representative and competitive democracy in Greece, has become purely symbolic and procedural in the way it votes for its austerity laws. External pressures ...

By David Belcher This article is from a special report on the Athens Democracy Forum, which concluded last week in the Greek capital. In the Sophocles play “Antigone,” King Creon, after ...

ATHENS — Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory Sunday in the country’s second election in five weeks ...

Greece's conservative New Democracy party leader secured a landslide victory tonight in the country's second election in five weeks, achieving a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a ...

But most Greeks could see that democracy in Greece was more besieged than ever. Contact us at [email protected] ...

On July 24, 1974, the military dictatorship that had ruled Greece for seven years collapsed. In the 50 years since then, the country has seen many ups and downs, but democracy has proven resilient ...

This year, Greece marks its 50th anniversary of restored democracy, after a seven-year military junta collapsed following Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in July 1974. The ensuing period — known as ...

The single word “Polytechnic” today evokes the entire scenario of resistance to fascism, but is also a way of questioning the level of democracy in today’s Greece. Forty years after the ...