Antonis Samaras
Cyprus
Eying Turkey, Greece Sidles Up To Israel
As Israel and Turkey are repairing relations torn by the killing of Turks in 2010 by Israeli commandos trying to stop an aid ship from reaching the Palestinian territories, Greece is trying to keep its ties tight with Tel...
Economy
Samaras Wants Allies Ready For Troika
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who is leader of the New Democracy Conservative party, will brief his coalition partners, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos, and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, on the government's strategy to deal with international...
Business
Greece Gives Support To Young Entrepreneurs
In response to Greece Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ pledge that the country will not rely purely on international bailouts and austerity, the government is offering state support for young innovators by funding a series of business proposals in information...
Economy
Greece Girds For Troika's Return
Greece is scrambling to ready its arguments to inspectors of international lenders who are due to return to Athens next week to check progress on long-delayed reforms before giving the go-ahead for a 2.8 billion euros ($3.5 billion) installment...
Business
SAP: "We will Invest in Greece"
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met today with co-CEO of German multinational software corporation SAP, Jim Hagemann Snabe, in the context of the government΄s efforts to attract foreign investments to Greece and expansion of their activities in the country.
SAP is...
Business
Cyprus Sets 100 Euro Daily ATM Limit
With fear building fast on Cyprus that there may not be a resolution to the country's economic crisis and the banks, which have been closed since March 15 not due to open again until March 26, the central bank...
Cyprus
Greeks Split On Cyprus, Prefer Euro
Greeks are nearly evenly divided how they feel about their government's hands-off stance about Cyprus' financial crisis but an overwhelming number want their country to stay in the Eurozone, an opinion survey has found.
Some 52.3 percent of respondents in...
Economy
Samaras Backs Israeli-Turkey Detente
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras called his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and arranged for the two countries to hold a High-Level Cooperation Council meeting soon and to say that Greece wants Turkey and Israel to repair strained relations.
Samaras’s office...
Greece
SYRIZA Keeps Slim Lead Over New Democracy
Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party continues to keep a razor-thin margin over the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, although he holds a commanding margin over his leftist rival, Alexis Tsipras,...
Cyprus
Madame Merkel's Rule Goes Viral
The Moscow Times depicted the crisis in Cyprus and the Eurozone with the image of a faux Renaissance painting with all the major protagonists, with the focus on German Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed as a tavern woman. The picture...