Venizelos

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.

The right-wing, anti-bailout Independent Greeks party has attacked socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos following his angry reaction Wednesday to a demonstration by a small group of bond-holders during a European election campaign speech in Athens.

Greece is expecting a Turkish vessel to conduct research over the Greek continental shelf without permission on Tuesday, government sources have told Kathimerini.

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos claimed late on Sunday that SYRIZA’s strategy of trying to turn local and European Parliament elections into a referendum on the government failed on Sunday.

A demonstrator takes part in a protest by Greek schoolteachers outside the Greek Parliament in central Athens, on Wednesday. About a thousand people took part in the peaceful protest, demanding that the Greek government revokes its decision to cut thousands of public sector jobs under the financially troubled country's bailout commitments.

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos is due to address his party’s MPs on Friday in a bid to boost their morale a day after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras sought to drive his lawmakers on to the local and European Parliament elections later this month.

By Costas Iordanidis

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin and his Greek counterpart Evangelos Venizelos discussed Thursday in Thessaloniki energy cooperation.

By Pantelis Boukalas

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos has ruled out the possibility of the government calling snap general elections.

“There is no such issue,” Venizelos said during a televised news conference on Sunday. “People do not want elections, this is clear to see.”