It was June 23, 1996, when Greece lost its first leftist prime minister and great reformist Andreas Papandreou.

Melbourne-based journalist Kostas Karamarkos has been appointed to the Secretariat of PASOK’s Diaspora Affairs Department, a key division within Greece’s Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).

Pablo was only able to return to his home country after the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974. He more or less settled down as a public left-wing figure, writing for progressive Greek ...

When Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on January 15 what many perceived as a partisan candidacy of the parliamentary speaker, the social-democratic Panhellenic Socialist Movement ...

He served as leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) from 1996 to 2004 and was Prime Minister of Greece during the same eight-year period.

Former Greek PM Costas Simitis dies 01/05/2025 January 5, 2025. Greece's former premier Costas Simitis has been credited with laying the foundations for the country to enter the eurozone.

The head of the Greek opposition party, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, Nikos Androulakis, said at at foreign policy parley last week that “if a regime is created in Syria that will be a satellite ...

It falls behind the Socialist movement Pasok after two lawmakers defected. Greece’s left-wing Syriza party has lost its status as the main opposition in parliament. It falls behind ... reducing Syriza ...

More MPs are expected to resign in the weeks ahead, stripping the party of its status as Greece’s official opposition, to be replaced by the social democratic Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).

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FILE - Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyanni, right, speaks during a news conference as Public Works Minister Vasso Papandreou, center, and Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki listen in Athens, Greece, Feb. 18, 2003.