Antonis Samaras

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has directed Deputy Interior Minister Haralambos Athanassiou to proceed with a string of amendments that would repeal citizenship rights for second-generation migrants, a law passed by a previous government to meet a Council of...

A meeting of the political leaders of Greece’s tripartite coalition government has reportedly agreed to relent to demands of protesting farmers to roll back Value Added Taxes on their products and equipment and give them cheap nighttime electricity as...

A CD containing the names of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC that hasn't been checked for tax evasion suspects for 2 1/2 years was given to a parliamentary...

For the second time in less than two weeks, the Greek government invoked emergency laws to order strikers back, ordering striking seamen to end a six-day strike that has kept ships in port and caused supply shortages o the...

It may come as a surprise during Greece's crushing austerity measures that anyone is getting a pay raise in the public sector, but the country's international lenders have ordered an end to automatic wage increases based on the number...

After using riot police last month to stop a nine-day Metro strike, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is reportedly considering issuing a mobilization order to stop a growing strike of seamen who have shut down ports and kept vessels...

Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras said Greece’s economy can begin recovering this year if it adheres to the conditions set by its lenders and keeps social unrest down. “We can make it ... if we can stick to the program...

Striking Greek marine workers said they will continue their walk-out until Feb. 6, further testing the resolve of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to force them to return to work as he did by sending riot police in to break...

Having crushed a Metro workers strike with riot police, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is treading a more careful line with protesting farmers and seamen who walked off the job and may extend their job action. The farmers, upset over...

Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras, upbeat that Greece will begin to recover from its crushing economic crisis as soon as October, and said it could have been averted if former Prime Ministers George Papandreou and Costas Karamanlis had taken...