Democracy is often celebrated as the highest form of governance . Yet more than 2,400 years ago, the Greek philosopher ...

Despite a strong centrist government in Greece, with a major emphasis on modernisation and little effective parliamentary ...

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis enters his seventh year in power facing a political landscape that is effectively ...

The municipal elections of a small city may seem like an unlikely way to make history after 2,300 years of history, but that’s what happened in June when the Greek city of Ioannina elected a Jew as ...

Democracy is in trouble here and abroad. According to the highly regarded World Values Survey data, most Americans under 60 do not consider it “absolutely essential” to live in a democracy. In fact, ...

With 75% of the vote counted, the center-right New Democracy party was on track to win the first national elections since Greece exited a bailout regime a year ago, signaling a clean break with years ...

Truth is as a rare wine. More talk about than taste it on their lips. Western democracy was born in ancient Greece. There is where it also first died. It seems many among the rich and powerful of that ...

Greece links North Macedonia’s EU path and bilateral progress to full implementation of the Prespa Agreement after recent remarks.

A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the Spartans allowed the Athenians to replace the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a new democracy. The tyranny had been a terrible and bloody ...

IN MARCH, 1947, President Truman sent to Congress a special message urging that the United States help Greece “to become a self-supporting and self-respecting democracy.” The “Truman Doctrine” was ...