Politics

The Greek coalition government has announced their new Ministers and Deputy Ministers. Some of them are completely unknown to most Greek citizens, however. Evangelos Livieratos will be appointed Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, as Mr E. Venizelos proposed....

The Greek government, a coalition of New Democracy, PASOK and Democratic Left parties, named their new Finance Minister, Vassilios Rapanos. He will carry a crucial portfolio, and as a result  international media are reporting on his professional profile today. Some...

ATHENS -Flush with the flow of victory, Greece's new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy party and its two partners in a coalition government, the PASOK Socialists and tiny Democratic Left party, have vowed to change the culture of...

ATHENS - Faced with the daunting task of trying to get Greece out from under its worst economic crisis since World War II, and with the backing of less than half of those who voted in the critical June...

Greek people are sick and tired of new measures, of austerity, of increasing unemployment as a result of the crisis, of insecurity, of European media presenting false dilemmas to them, and so forth. When Greeks plead for mercy" on...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday congratulated new Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras by phone and invited him for talks in Berlin. Merkel "wished him luck and success for the difficult work that lies ahead of him," Merkel’s spokesman Steffen...

ATHENS – New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, whose party finished first in the critical June 17 elections but with less than 30 percent of the vote, was sworn in as Prime Minister on June 20 after convincing his rivals,...

For the first time in the history of the Greek Parliament, 20% of MPs will be women. On the basis of the June 17 election results, the number of women in Parliament rose by 2.7% than that in 2009 to comprise 60...

ATHENS – Antonis Samaras finally has the job he always wanted: Prime Minister of Greece, but may find he should have been careful about what he asked for because he’s going to get it-- from all directions. As he...

A coalition government could be formed by mid-Wednesday in Greece, the head of the country's socialist party Eleftherios Venizelos said Tuesday, easing the nation from political limbo as it struggles to deal with a financial crisis that has affected...

In the recent Greek elections ND won by getting almost one third of the votes and almost half of the seats due to an irrational and unfair system that literally steals the seats from one party to give it...

A new Greek Government will be shaped by a New democracy (center right), PASOK (socialists), and DIM.AR (left) coalition, according to comments of the majority of Greek media. PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos and DIM.AR leader Fotis Kouvelis commented positively on...

ATHENS – Greek Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos has denied reports that he obtained extra tickets for the 2012 games in London to re-sell on the black market, although he was caught on camera allegedly boasting about the scheme....

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is insisting that Greece must implement the reforms it agreed to in exchange for rescue loans from international creditors. German news agency DAPD reports that Merkel said at the Group of 20 summit in Mexico that...

ATHENS – Negotiations to form a coalition government took a detour on June 18th after PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos told his New Democracy counterpart Antonis Samaras, whose party won the elections the day before, that he wanted voices...