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Samaras Challenges Tsipras: Let's Debate on TV

ATHENS – With their parties in a virtual deadlock for first place in the June 17 elections that could decide Greece’s fate, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras has challenged Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) head Alexis Tsipras to...

Schaeuble: Greece 'Needs Austerity Programs'

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said cash-strapped Greece needed to implement EU and IMF-imposed austerity measures as European solidarity was "not a one-way street." "To tell the Greeks that they need not apply austerity deals to which they have agreed...

A G8 Push for Greece to Stay in the Eurozone, But No Answers

Even as Greeks found themselves caught in the twin nightmares of accepting more pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and mass firings, or the doomsday scenarios of returning to the drachma, 70 percent devaluation, lack of food, fuel, tanks...

Conservatives, Radical Leftists Even In Latest Polls

Greece's conservative New Democracy party and the radical leftist Syriza party are even in polls published in Sunday newspapers, with two polls showing New Democracy would garner the most support in a fresh vote mid-June and Syriza taking the...

Right-wing LAOS Will Run Independently in June 17 Elections

The former Parliamentary group of right-wing LAOS (Popular Orthodox Rally) unanimously has decided to run independently in the next elections planned for June 17. Today, the party members met under their President Giorgos Karatzaferis and decided not to run with...

Alexis Tsipras Backs Staying in Euro

Greek poll front-runner Alexis Tsipras, buoyed by a groundswell of opposition to EU-IMF imposed austerity measures, says forcing his country out of the eurozone would sink the region as a whole. The problems in Greece were those of Europe, Tsipras...

Merkel Calls For Greek Referendum On Euro; Berlin Denies

ATHENS – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office is denying a report that she recommended to Greek President Karolos Papoulias that Greece should hold a referendum on whether to stay in the Eurozone. Late last year, she blasted then Prime...

NY Times: Alexis Tsipras Becomes the New 'Pied Piper of Hellas'

An extensive report by the New York Times compares SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras to the new “pied piper” coming to the rescue of Greece after the May 6 election outcome that ranked his party the second major political power...

European Parliament President Visits Greece

European Parliament President Martin Schulz visited Athens to meet with political figures of the country. Schulz planned to visit the Greek capital May 13-14 but cancelled it. Later, he stated he just postponed the visit but did not make clear...

Political Wars Begin: New Democracy-SYRIZA Clash

ATHENS – Even as a new Parliament briefly met and dissolved, Greece’s political parties were taking shots at each other ahead of a second round of elections on June 17 that could decide whether the country stays in the...

Merkel Phones Carolos Papoulias, Calls for Stable Government

Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a stable Greek government to be formed quickly after new elections in a telephone call with President Carolos Papoulias on Friday, a German government spokesman said. "The chancellor had a telephone conversation on Friday morning...

WSJ: A Defiant Message From Greece

The head of Greece's radical left party—throwing down a gauntlet that could increase tensions between Greece and its frustrated European creditors—said he sees little chance Europe will cut off funding to the country but that if it does, Athens...

Poll Shows Greece Electing Pro-Bailout Government

Greek voters are returning to the establishment parties that negotiated its bailout, a poll showed on Thursday, offering potential salvation for European leaders who say a snap Greek election next month will decide whether it must quit the euro. The...

Golden Dawn Targets Greek Homosexual Community

Greek nationalist group Golden Dawn has stirred up controversy and turmoil once again by publicly taking a rigid stance against the “sick and abnormal” homosexuals. Despite the international medical associations declaring homosexuality a personal and free choice of sexual behavior,...

Voters' Support For Leftist Anti-Austerity Syriza Grows

Support for the Greek leftist Syriza party, which was the second-most popular party in elections earlier this month, has grown even more, a new poll showed Thursday, indicating that it would garner the most support in a fresh vote...