Andreas Papandreou

Family, friends, and PASOK members who worked alongside her throughout the years gathered on Saturday afternoon to say their final goodbye to Vasso Papandreou, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 80.

The funeral took place at the Church of Saint Basil in Valimitika, Aigio, her hometown.

As PASOK celebrates another key anniversary—second only to its founding on September 3rd—the party’s leadership at Harilaou Trikoupi isn’t just looking back. They’re focusing on how to harness the symbolism of their past success to fuel a strategic push for power in the upcoming national elections.

Vasso Papandreou, one of the founding members of the socialist PASOK party, and a former European commissioner, minister and MP, has died. She was 79 years old.

According to reports, she had been struggling with health issues in recent months.

Nikos Androulakis may have been triumphantly re-elected to the helm of PASOK last Sunday, but the reasons that led to his leadership being challenged in the first place have not been resolved.

It has been 50 years since the founding declaration of New Democracy on October 4, 1974. The declaration was signed solely by Konstantinos Karamanlis, just two and a half months after his return to Greece, following 11 years of self-imposed “exile” in Paris. Thus, the party was established, which, along with PASOK, became the two main pillars of the post-dictatorial Greek Republic.

Nadia Giannakopoulou proposes a shift to the center, stressing that PASOK aims to express “the impoverished middle class and the most vulnerable citizens” with clear positions and initiatives.

In a version of pop aesthetics, with a black and white poster and under the central slogan “our SYRIZA,” Stefanos Kasselakis, made his reappearance in the public sphere yesterday, bringing closer the announcement of his candidacy for the presidency of SYRIZA PS. In just two words and saying “I am here”, Mr.

I am not an expert in international relations, much less in Greek-Turkish relations. However, as a historian, I have always been struck by the significant shift in Greek foreign policy with the rise of PASOK to power. These thoughts come to mind whenever I hear commentary on the government's decisions and its reactions to such criticism.

Given the different protagonists and characteristics of the two given times, it would seem somewhat excessive to draw similarities between PASOK's heyday in 1981, when it gained such widespread popularity with its pledges for change, and the realistic possibility of the socialist party reclaiming its position in second place as the main contender for power against New Democracy today because of