Politics

Just as the European Union is experiencing the most serious economic crisis in its existence and with Greece on the verge of bankruptcy, the two major parties forming Greece's national salvation government are taking every opportunity to clash and...

ATHENS – Following remarks from New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras that elections tentatively scheduled for Feb. 19 will probably have to be rescheduled because a temporary coalition government won’t be able to finish the work of keeping international...

Darebin City Council has appointed a new Mayor for 2011-2012, Cr Steven Tsitas, in a Special Meeting of Council on Monday 5 December. In his commencement speech, Darebin Mayor Cr Steven Tsitas said his appointment marked the first time an...

Almost a month after he resigned as Prime Minister, George Papandreou is clinging to power as the head of the embattled PASOK Socialists, but a growing number of lawmakers and former ministers[...]

Poll conducted for Mega TV by pollster GPO (1,400 polled) shows 88% said they suffered a drop in income this year and 80.7% expect conditions to worsen next year. Despite this 76.7% of those polled said they wanted to stay...

ATHENS – Of all the new slew of taxes imposed on Greeks to help the country from going bankrupt, perhaps the most hated – the so-called “haratsi,” or Turkish tax, a second property tax, that is being put into...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Athens for a two-day visit during which he will meet Greece's political leadership. Biden was greeted at Athens International Airport by Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos. Biden will meet Monday with President Karolos...

The date of the early parliamentary elections in Greece, tentatively scheduled for February 2012, may be changed, a leader of the conservative New Democracy party said. The elections were tentatively scheduled for February 19, 2012. "If the voluntary 'haircut' is completed...

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said European Union regulators and credit rating agencies bear some blame for his nation’s debt crisis. Papandreou, who resigned last month, said of the debt crisis that his predecessors “didn’t really see it coming,”...

ATHENS – As Greece’s economic crisis worsens and intensifies, new scrutiny is being brought on the 300 Members of Parliament, whose pay and benefits is more than members of the United States Congress, and some of whom are said...

The Greek Finance Ministry has issued new guidelines stating that the most vulnerable groups in[...]

Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic paid a short visit to Greece on 2 December.  Jeremic met with his Greek counterpart Stavros Dimas. During the meeting Stavros Dimas emphasized that Greece supports Serbia within Europe. On his part, Vuk...

ATHENS – As Greece tries to tax its way out of near-bankruptcy – along with pay and pension cuts and layoffs – a major part of a solution, catching the country’s notorious tax evaders, could bring in more than...

Property tax was rightly adopted, but mistakes were made, said Greek PM Lucas Papademos in the Parliament. In a response to communist party leader Aleka Papariga, he said that the property tax contributes to the fiscal consolidation effort of the...

ATHENS – After 18 months of protests, riots and strikes, another walk off the job by Greek workers on Dec. 1 shut down many services in the capital and elsewhere in the country, but there was no repeat of...