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Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres says the provision of Maori seats on local councils should not be decided by a public vote.

Nelson ratepayers have overwhelmingly quashed a proposal that a Maori ward be established.

A row has broken out over a claim that German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested debt-stricken Greece should vote on whether it should stay in the euro zone.

Residents of Nelson city will soon know whether a Maori electoral ward will be established in their local government region.

World stocks and oil prices have fallen as economic news out of Europe continues to worsen, with Spain the focus of investor worries.

Financial and political woes of Greece will be a priority at the G8 summit in the United States at the weekend.

Papua New Guinea's Green Party says this year's election finds the country at a major crossroads. In next month's polls, the party is fielding 25 candidates, 10 of whom are...

More than 300 Papua New Guinea security personnel comprising police, defence and Correctional Services staff will be on duty in East Sepik during the election. The newspaper, The National, reports...

Papua New Guinea's rival politicans have laid aside their differences and used yesterday's special sitting of parliament to agree on holding elections as scheduled. The deputy prime minister and…

The Papua New Guinea MP for Morobe is calling on parliamentarians to focus on their electorates in the lead-up to the June general election. After months of political ructions, MPs...

Fiji's interim Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says there have been no discussions among current leaders about forming a political party. He was responding to suggestions that the Fiji regime was…

The 17-nation eurozone has avoided returning to recession - but only just - with economic activity stalling in the first three months of this year.

In Papua New Guinea, all government coalition partners as well as the Opposition are now united, and want the 2012 general election to proceed now rather than later following a...

Greece is set to go to the polls again after days of coalition talks failed to produce agreement on a new government.

The Papua New Guinea parliament is holding a special one day meeting today amid continuing uncertainty that the elections set for June will go ahead on time. The writs for...

The moderate Democratic Left party in Greece says it will not join pro-bailout parties in a coalition without the more radical far left Syriza.

One of Fiji's leading youth advocates Peter Waqavonovono says many young people want new faces in parliament after the polls promised for 2014. The pro-democracy activist says with 60 percent...

Greece's president has begun talks with the heads of the three main parties, in a last attempt to form an emergency government to avoid having to hold fresh elections after an inconclusive poll last…

Voters in Germany's biggest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, are choosing a regional parliament testing the popularity of chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).

The party which has ruled Algeria since its independence from France 50 years ago has been returned to power in a parliamentary election.

The leaders of Greece's once-dominant political parties are making their final effort to form a coalition and avert an imminent new election.

France's National Front has put forward a candidate in French Polynesia in a bid to win one of the territory's three seats in the French National Assembly. The candidacy of...

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says preparations by the Electoral Commission for this year's general elections are adequate. Members of Mr O'Neill's coalition government continue to…

Prime Minister John Key is brushing off a major Maori tribe's threat of legal action against the mixed ownership model legislation.

The head of Fiji's land forces says there will be no military political party in the elections in 2014. During the visit of Pacific Island Forum ministers to Fiji last...