Politics

One of Australia's most successful construction company owners, Gerasimos Karidis, said the country will have to rely on immigration to raise its population from 22 million to 35 million, an idea that is supported by Regional Development Minister Simon...

Busting a stereotype that they are the laziest and least efficient workers in Europe, Greeks actually work more hours than any of their counterparts in other countries, a report from the European Commission shows. The report dwelled on the miserable...

With the country’s economy still sinking, unemployment and social unrest rising and under pressure from his coalition partners and international lenders, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he believes that he has brought Greece back from the brink of...

Australia’s Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen has reiterated that he believes  an intergovernmental agreement between Australia and Greece allowing tourists to work during their vacations will be concluded. He invited Greek students to come to Australia and said...

Greek Minister of Interior Euripidis Stylianidis said he is ready to put a bill before Parliament that would give Greeks around the world the right to vote in Greek elections, which could add several million eligible voters, according to...

With Greek prosecutors already scouring a list of 33 politicians to determine how they obtained their wealth, the government now is probing names on another list – this one of some 400 Greeks who’ve bought luxury homes in London,...

Buried under big pay cuts, tax hikes, and slashed pensions but pressed by banks to cover mortgages, loans and credit cards in full, 25 percent of Greeks have given up and stopped paying, driving the total of Non-Performing Loans...

ATHENS -  Although Greece country suffers through a crushing economic crisis, most citizens are not desperate enough to embrace the hate rhetoric and immigrant-bashing of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. “They have a bad history and violence breeds violence,” Athens...

While details of a 13.5 billion euros ($17.34 billion) plan to cut spending and raise revenues haven’t yet been made available to the public, the package is reportedly in the hands of envoys from international lenders who have to...

The island of Pezonisi, also known as Nisi ton Oneiron (Island of Dreams), is set to become the first island to be leased to the private sector for tourist development following a decision by the Eretria municipality, the newspaperKathimerini...

As Greece struggles through a crushing economic crisis with many people unable to pay debts because of big salary cuts and tax hikes,  the two parties that ruled Greece for four decades before this year’s elections produced a coalition...

Greek Parliament President Vangelis Meimarakis, who suspended himself during a reported probe into the bank accounts of 36 politicians that allegedly found huge sums in their bank accounts for which they couldn’t account, is feeling the heat and said...

Greece’s uneasy coalition government has nearly reached agreement on all the measures in a $14.6 billion spending cut plan, one of its members said, without revealing what they were. Emerging from a meeting with Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative...

While Greek workers protest in the streets against the new austerity measures, the Minister of Finance, Yiannis Stournaras, managed to finalize the package of budget cuts for the 2013-2014 period, and, following a meeting lasted over three hours, reached...

Some 50,000 Greeks worn out by austerity measures marched through central Athens on Sept. 26 in the first general strike since the country's coalition government was formed in June, as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras worked to finalize another $14.6...