Socialists

The socialist leader of EDEK, Vassos Lyssaridis, passed away on Monday at the age of 100 on Cyprus. He was married to Barbara Cornwall.

Frans Timmermans, the European Socialists' lead candidate (Spitzenkandidat) for the presidency of the European Commission has been in Athens since Sunday, attending the Movement for Change (KINAL) party conference and meeting with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras. Speaking at the KINAL...

The Party of European Socialists has postponed its leaders meeting in Rome for Friday on account of the EgyptAir MS804 plane crash. Greek Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was to attend the meeting that would have...

As Greece struggles to right its economy and get the banking sector healthy, austerity measures have been so brutal that customers owe more than 65 billion euros ($87.66 billion) in loans, credit cards and mortgages they can't pay -...

During an interview in Mediapart, a French online newspaper, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that it's unethical that rich Greeks are not paying their fair share of taxes during a crushing economic crisis that has seen big pay cuts,...

ATHENS – Days after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his coalition partners said they would not again cut wages and pensions as part of a $14.16 billion savings plan to satisfy international lenders, they are reportedly ready to...

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande, the Socialist who rode an anti-austerity platform to victory and refused to talk with Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, has warmly welcomed PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos – who...

ATHENS – While former Prime Minister George Papandreou was in Costa Rica addressing the Socialist International conference as its leader, the PASOK party he still heads – if only for a while and under constant pressure to quit –...

ATHENS – As German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived in Greece on Jan. 15 for talks with political leaders of the debt-crushed and cash-starved country, with a message of support from European officials, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Greece...