Sunday’s vote looks likely to be a dress rehearsal for a new round of voting in the busy summer tourist season — barring a surprise coalition deal by dissonant opposition parties
A Feb. 28 collision between a passenger train and a freight train in northern Greece left 57 people dead and the disaster stirred public anger
The deadly accident is weighing heavily on the minds of voters, but so far the leftist Syriza has been unable to capitalize on the anti-government sentiment
Strikes halted ferries to the islands and halted public transportation services in Athens, where some 30,000 people gathered to join the protest
The country’s transportation minister, Kostas Karamanlis, resigned on Wednesday, saying he felt it was his ‘duty’ to step down ‘as a basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly’