Despite the stakes at Euro polls, focus in Greece is on challenges at home

About 400 million citizens in all 28 European Union member-states are heading to the polls this week to cast their ballots for the bloc's only directly elected body: the European Parliament.

With a number of challenges - including a meteoric rise of populist and nationalist rhetoric across the continent, border rows over migrants and an uncertain Brexit scenario looming over the process - analysts have dubbed this year's election "the most important EU vote" in the body's history.

In Greece, however, the European Parliament elections are perceived as a largely domestic affair, a prognosis ahead of the national polls to be held on or before October 20. Apart from selecting the 21 lawmakers they will be sending to Brussels and Strasbourg, Greeks are also heading to the polls on Sunday to elect their representatives at the country's local authorities in the country's...