Progressive Alliance

The president of SYRIZA - Progressive Alliance, Alexis Tsipras, addressed a new invitation on Saturday to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for a televised debate between the two men.

Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras has made a call against Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' provocative statements on Turkey and offered peace between Athens and Ankara while speaking at an event on the Aegean island of Symi.

The planned referendum to change the name of SYRIZA has reportedly become a source of acrimony within the leftist party as it is opposed by its more radical wing.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been blindsided and thrown completely off his game plan. His narrative of a "progressive army" and a fresh rally of forces for elections "that will determine the future" is coming under constant attack.

With his gaze fixed on next month's European Parliament elections, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is reportedly determined to proceed with his ambitious goal of forming a center-left front, despite vehement reactions from party purists within ruling SYRIZA.

German Foreign Minister and Social Democratic Party (SPD) Chairman Sigmar Gabriel has invited Selahattin Demirtaş, a co-chair of the Turkish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who is currently in jail pending trial in Turkey, to the Berlin convention of the Progressive Alliance - a Socialist International network - in a symbolic gesture, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) reported F

Despite pleas from the state ombudsman for children's rights, politicians campaigning for this weekend's parliamentary elections have been seeking to endear themselves to the public by posing for photographs with children.

More than 160,000 viewers on Youtube across the Western Balkans region have been amused or bemused by some videos that former Croatian President Ivo Josipovic released on Sunday.

Videos showing Josipovic and people from his "Forwards Croatia - Progressive Alliance" party became an instant hit on Youtube, social networks and websites.

Croatia's centre-left governing coalition, known as the "Kukuriku coalition", is making moves to broaden its ranks ahead of the coming elections.

The coalition, led by the Social Democratic Party, SDP, under Zoran Milanovic, has battled poor ratings in the polls in relation to the right-wing coalition led by the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, under Tomislav Karamarko.

Socialists "to change name, and policy"

BELGRADE -- As part of internal party reforms, the Socialists (SPS) are preparing "to change their name, and policy," reports the daily Večernje Novosti.