Politics

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...

Greece's deep recession has forced almost a third of businesses in Athens commercial district to close down as shrinking incomes and frequent strikes have driven away customers and harsh austerity measures have made many slow spending almost to a...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ uneasy coalition government, poised to make another $14.6 billion in pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on workers, the elderly and poor, faces its first test this week with a series of work...

Frustrated by relentless demands from international lenders that Greece make even deeper pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras threatened to resign during an intense meeting, the New York Times reported. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, under...