Antonis Samaras
Economy
Samaras in Brussels as Greeks Protest, One Dead
With Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Brussels pleading with European Union leaders for the release of more rescue monies, some 70,000 Greeks roared through the downtown of Athens to protest more pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions demanded...
Economy
Spiegel Reports Greece Will Get Loans
While German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she’s waiting for a report from international lenders, the news magazine Spiegel said a decision has already been made that Greece will get its next installment by the end of November.
Greece is awaiting...
Greece
Greece-Troika Budget Stalemate Continues
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will go to a European Union meeting on Oct. 18 empty-handed after his coalition partners refused to go along with changes to labor rules as part of a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax...
Economy
Kouvelis, Venizelos Reject Troika Demands
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ uneasy coalition government has started to come apart over demands by international lenders for even deeper austerity measures as his partners, the PASOK Socialists of Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left of Fotis Kouvelis, said...
Economy
Troika Breaks Off Budget Talks With Greece
Greece’s negotiations with international lenders hit another snag on Oct. 16 when the envoy of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) broke off talks and said he had to brief the agency’s chief, Christine Lagarde on the lack of progress.
The...
Economy
Greece Prepares Second Wave of Privatizations
Greece plans to launch tenders to sell or lease a string of state assets, including its biggest refiner and two largest ports, as it battles to pay down debt and meet the terms of an international bailout.
The deals will...
Economy
No Greek Deal With Troika Before EU Summit
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hopes of going to a European Union meeting on Oct. 18 with a finalized package of $17.45 billion in spending cuts and tax hikes imposed mostly on the country's workers, pensioners and the poor...
Economy
PASOK Rebels Want Party to Quit Coalition
Seeing the party’s popularity plummet from 44 percent in 2009, when it won the Prime Minister’s office, to barely 10 percent now, dissenters within PASOK want the Socialist party to break away from the uneasy coalition government led by...
Greece
Greek Hospital Doctors to Strike Oct. 17-18
With a general strike already called for Oct. 18 by Greece's two largest labor unions in protest of more impending austerity measures from the government, hospital doctors said they will join and also not work the day before.
Oct. 18...
Greece
Don't Look to Tsipras for Greece's Salvation
Given the complete, total, abject, utter 40-year-long failure of the New Democracy Uber-Capitalists and PASOK Anti-Socialists who have put anyone with a pulse - and some without - on public payrolls in return for votes, drowning the country in...