Politics

Greece currently has no need for external financing so it would not be a problem if the next aid tranche for the debt-plagued country were delayed by a few weeks, a German finance ministry spokesman said on Friday. "As far as I am aware, there...

Greece's radical-left Syriza party is leading in the race to win the country's elections next month, a public-opinion poll showed Thursday, outpacing the rival conservative New Democracy party by a four-point margin. According to the poll for the privately owned...

ATHENS – Locked in a battle with the New Democracy Conservatives as front-runners in the June 17 elections that could decide whether Greece leaves the Eurozone, Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tspiras has accused his rivals...

The online edition of the British daily The Sun published a list featuring the most beautiful and sexy female politicians of the EU. Entitled "Erogenous Eurozones," the article pays credit to all those ladies beautifying the bleak field of...

“Greece will leave the euro zone on January 1, 2013 and its new currency will immediately fall by 60% against the euro, unleashing a sizable and unavoidable wave of contagion across Europe,” according to a report published by Citigroup...

Meeting in Brussels yesterday evening (May 23), EU heads of state and governments indirectly called on Greek voters to support the mainstream political parties in support of the EU/IMF bailout program as talk of a Greek exit from the...

ATHENS – With anxiety mounting that Greece might vote for anti-austerity parties in the June 17 elections and be forced to leave the Eurozone of 17 countries using the euro as a currency, more Greeks – already legendary tax...

A writer on the well-known blog Market Watch is making a heretical suggestion, proposing that if the "Grexit" takes place, Turkey should replace our country in the Eurozone. The article says, “If Greece ends up leaving the Eurozone, as the...

Greece΄s former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned that Greek people have no choice but to stick with a harsh austerity program imposed by their lenders or face an exit from the Eurozone which could result in the financial collapse...

ATHENS – After seeing more of his members fleeing his sinking party, far Right-Wing LAOS leader George Karatzaferis accused one of them of being a “rat” and accused New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras of reneging on a pledge to...

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande, the Socialist who rode an anti-austerity platform to victory and refused to talk with Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, has warmly welcomed PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos – who...

There is a country where people no longer laugh and everyone is gloomy and miserable. This country’s Prime Minister is called Panagiotis Pikrammenos a.k.a "embittered" and reflects perfectly the feelings reigning in its citizens, wrote a Greek 19-year-old university...

ATHENS – The former New Democracy minister, who was kicked out of the party for refusing to support austerity measures and formed her own political group that failed to win seats in the May 6 elections, has returned to...

The International Monetary Fund expects Greece΄s next government to implement its agreed bailout program, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said Tuesday, according to Dow Jones. "The clear preference of the IMF in the interests of stability is that appropriate implementation...

ATHENS – In a scenario that shows just how divided Greece is, political leaders who tried to form a coalition government in the wake of the May 6 stalemated elections were at each other’s throats in diatribe so vicious...