Politics

France and Germany will strive over the next four weeks to stop Greece from unsettling markets as officials work to put the country’s faltering bailout plan back on the rails, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said. Moscovici made his comments...

Nikos Chountis, a Member of the European Parliament for the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party, raised the issue of the Siemens scandal of Greece before the European Parliament and said the government had been too cozy...

The board of the Athens Bar Association (ABA) said it was surprised that a Greek investigative journalist was prosecuted on violation of privacy laws a day after he released a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 in deposits in...

At a time when Greece needs the Diaspora more than ever, the Greek government - under pressure to cut expenses by its international lenders - will be closing six embassies and two consulates around the world instead of spreading...

Greece's PASOK party on Monday gave its strongest hint yet that it intends to provide the support the government needs to get cuts demanded by foreign lenders approved in parliament. Athens has been locked for months in talks with its...

A Greek journalist who was arrested for exposing the names of 2,059 people with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank said the government moved swiftly to silence him because it is trying to cover up for rampant...

Theodoros Karaoglou, Macedonian Minister of Macedonia and Thrace, is going to visit Melbourne to attend celebrations and events in support of Macedonian issues. The Minister will attend the Macedonian Glendi on Nov. 18, which brings together a 30,000 strong crowd...

A cyber-attack on the servers of Greek Finance Ministry has leaked classified documents and information online,  just a few days before the Greek Parliament is scheduled to vote  on a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan. The attack,...

The world's markets may believe that the worst of the financial crisis in Europe is over after three turbulent years, but those people who control the purse strings of the world's businesses are not breathing any easier. An annual survey...

Greece would be allowed to impose losses on its public investors the same way it did to private investors in a desperate bid to write down debt, officials from the Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank...

Greece's foreign lenders have refused to make any further concessions on changes to labour laws contested by a junior coalition partner, the country's finance minister said on Sunday, prolonging an impasse on a crucial austerity package. Athens has been locked...

In an effort to convince his reluctant coalition partners to support a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan that is antithetical to their campaign promises to resist more austerity measures, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been holding...

Greek Police arrested the journalist who published the list with the names of 2,059 people who made $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland HSBC bank branch. The arrest took place at a house of a friend of the Greek journalist in...

International auditors will demand that Greece carry out a further 150 reforms to its recession-battered economy, as it teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, German newsweekly Spiegel reported Sunday. Citing an interim version of the findings of the troika of...

Greek police are seeking to locate and arrest Costas Vaxevanis, the Greek journalist who published the list with the names of 1,991 people who made $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland HSBC bank branch. Greek police said that the...