Movement for Change
Poll sees ND holding lead, 7 in 10 opposing name deal
A new opinion poll conducted by MRB puts conservative New Democracy 9.8 percentage points ahead of leftist SYRIZA and finds that seven in 10 do not support the recent Macedonia name deal.
According to the nationwide survey, which was conducted on a sample of 2,000 people, if elections were held now ND would garner 31 percent of the vote and SYRIZA 21.2 percent.
The breakup of Movement for Change, a new political landscape and Golden Dawn
The decision by centrist To Potami lawmakers to break away from the Movement for Change (KINAL) alliance and go it alone - for many reasons that do make sense - has changed the Greek political landscape.
Political scene in flux, as PM meets cabinet without coalition partner
The absence from Μonday's cabinet meeting of Panos Kammenos, leader of the junior coalition party, Independent Greeks (ANEL), has further fueled speculation of imminent changes to the political balance.
Potami drops out of Movement for Change alliance
A sweeping majority of lawmakers with centrist party To Potami voted on Sunday to drop out of the Movement for Change (KINAL) just a few months after the alliance spearheaded by socialist PASOK was founded.
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Moscovici on two-day visit in Athens next week
EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici will visit Athens on July 2-3 as a followup to the comprehensive deal achieved at the Eurogroup on June 21 on the completion of Greece's third bailout program, the Commission said in a press release.
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Poll shows ND widening lead, six in 10 against name deal
Conservative New Democracy has widened its lead over leftist SYRIZA to 12.5 percentage points, according to a new opinion poll which also showed that six in 10 Greeks oppose Greece's name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic if Macedonia (FYROM).
Name deal exposes cracks in coalition partner, center-left
The name deal between Athens and Skopje has exposed cracks in Greece's junior coalition partner, the nationalist Independent Greeks (ANEL), as well as the new center-left Movement for Change (KINAL).
Centre-left KINAL divided as leader rejects Athens-Skopje deal
The leader of the centre-left coalition party Movement for Change and PASOK, Fofi Gennimata, said on Thursday she will not back the deal reached between the prime ministers of Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the latter's name on Tuesday.
Movement for Change to wait for full text of Greece-FYROM deal
The center-left grouping Movement for Change (KINAL) said it would wait for the full text of the agreement before taking an official position on the name deal announced Tuesday by governments in Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
Gennimata says in favor of FYROM name deal that complies with conditions
The head of the center-left coalition Movement for Change, Fofi Gennimata, said on Friday the party is ready to accept a solution to the name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) but will not approve a deal that does not comply with the conditions set in a meeting of political party leaders in 1992.