Politics

On Friday night, Nov. 16, 1973, police started facing off against protesters inside and outside the Athens[...]

New government should comfortably survive a vote of confidence on Wednesday but Prime Minister Lucas Papademos faces a daunting task repairing the shattered public finances, and cracks are already appearing in his crisis coalition. Polls show Papademos, a former vice...

Greece’s new Defence Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos will visit Cyprus on Thursday, as agreed during a telephone conference on Saturday with his Cypriot counterpart Demetris Eliades. According to an official announcement released in Nicosia, Eliades telephoned Avramopoulos to congratulate him on...

“Australia’s policies on the name issue of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia remain unaltered. Australia recognizes the county by this name and our political line will not change as long as Greece and FYROM do not adopt a...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras on Monday outlined to his party's parliamentary group the reasons that led him to agree to back a transitional government which, he stressed, was formed for a specific purpose and has...

ATHENS – Just a few days after Greece got a coalition government charged with pushing through more austerity measures to get a second bailout of $157 billion from international lenders, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said he’ll refuse to...

Parliament will hold a vote of confidence in Greece's new transition government at noon on Wednesday, after a three-day debate of new prime minister Lucas Papademos' policy statement. will present his policy statement on Monday afternoon, at 7:00 p.m. in...

President Demetris Christofias received on Friday a phone call from Lucas Papademos, who informed him that he was the first state leader with whom he has communicated since he took over from George Papandreou, as proof of the fraternal...

Jewish organizations have expressed concern over an extreme-right anti-Semitic party in the new government of national unity in Greece. "We are deeply concerned by the presence in the new unity government of the LAOS extreme-right, headed by Georgios Karatzaferis," the...

ATHENS – Even before the dust settled down from the appointment of a new interim Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos, and a coalition cabinet charged with pushing through the Parliament a new bailout of $157 billion from international lenders and...

Greece and the Republic of South Korea celebrated on Friday, November 11 the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. For the occasion, two Korean warships have docked at the port of Piraeus and will remain there...

ATHENS – Former European Central Bank Vice-President Lucas Papademos has been sworn in as the country’s interim Prime Minister, charged with keeping international aid coming and holding together a coalition government that includes some bitter rivals, and far Right-Wing...

  So, after more meetings and consultations, the new Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and representatives of the three parties (PASOK, New Democracy,LAOS) finalized the composition of the crisis cabinet which counts 48 (!) members-so much about the flexible cabinet Papadimos...

The new interim government swears an oath on Friday noon, then the procedure of vote of confidence would launch. Consultations continued until late Thursday between the new Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and representatives of the three parties (PASOK, New Democracy,...

ATHENS – As Greece waited on a new coalition government needed to keep international loans coming and prevent the country’s bankruptcy, the austerity measures that go along with them have driven the unemployment rate to 18.4%. That came as hundreds...