European Parliament

Sunday's European Parliament elections are not a referendum for the conservative-led administration, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Friday while warning however against an 'accident' that would create instability in the country.

Two new opinion polls on voting intentions for European Parliament elections show leftist opposition SYRIZA ahead of New Democracy by 2.5-3.2 percent.

A Public Issue survey for Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper put the leftists on 30 percent against 27.5 percent for the conservatives.

Nationalism in Bulgaria may impact EP vote

Education and suppressing hate speech are the ways to fight xenophobia in Bulgaria, experts say.

The issue of Syrian refugees is helping to fuel nationalist attitudes by some in Bulgaria. [AFP]

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos said on Thursday that the results of the European Parliament elections on Sunday would have to be balanced against the outcome of the local polls that take place on the same day.

By Nikos Chrysoloras

Greece’s credit rating will be increased one level by Fitch Ratings, which cited an improving economic and fiscal outlook for the country that sparked Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.

By Nikos Konstandaras

A total of five parties will make it into the European Parliament, with center-right opposition GERB to be first in the vote, a survey by polling agency Alpha Research argues.

The survey exploring electoral attitudes, made upon an order by Dnevnik.bg, shows that GERB has a clear lead on the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) in the contest for Bulgaria's 17 MEP seats.

A new opinion poll on voting intentions for European Parliament elections shows leftist opposition SYRIZA ahead of conservative New Democracy by 2.5 percent.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the nominee of the EU’s Christian Democratic parties for the top job at the European Commission, has said that a breakdown of Greece's conservative-led coalition government would be a “highly dangerous” development.

By Georgios Georgiou & Paul Tugwell

Voters in Cyprus won’t reject Europe in this weekend’s European Union Parliament elections, even after international creditors last year forced the government to impose losses on bank deposits, Cypriot politicians and officials said.