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 that was supposed to be paid in March but pushed back. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met [...]
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SYRIZA Leads Poll, So Does Samaras
In a continuation of polls showing the ambivalence of Greeks, the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is maintaining a slight lead over ruling New Democracy, but the Conservative leader, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is a runaway favorite to lead the country. Samaras has 47.4 percent to only 32.4 percent for SYRIZA leader [...]
Tsochatzopoulos Says Conviction Was Political
As he awaits trial on more serious charges of money-laundering and embezzling as much as one billion euros ($1.3 billion) from contracts he awarded, former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos said that his eight-year jail sentence for failing to fully declare his assets in 2008 and 2009 was politically-motivated by the government which wanted to [...]
Hold On … Samaras Readies Greek Shake
After his office issued a blanket denial that he would not reshuffle his Cabinet, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, is set to do so and will fire some of his own party members and replace them with those of one of his coalition partners, the PASOK Socialists, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. [...]
Venizelos Says No Choice But Coalition
PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, presiding over a party that is evaporating in polls because of unrelenting support for austerity measures that are antithetical to its founding principles, said there is no alternative to the coalition government led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader. The tiny Democratic Left, which is falling [...]
Greece Fears Troika Wants Fast Firings
Inspectors from the Troika of Greece’s international lenders will return to Athens next week as the uneasy coalition governments they will demand a picked-up pace of layoffs and firings to reduce the public workforce by 25,000 this year. Worried about a backlash from labor unions and more social unrest, the government is expected to argue [...]
Immigrants Press Children’s Greek Citizenship
Immigrant children living in Greece made their case for citizenship on Feb. 27 at a news conference held at the offices of the Journalists’ Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers, under the title Citizenship for All Children. “We claim citizenship for all children. They are our children, children who live at the next door, go [...]
Four PASOK MP’s Return to Fold
As he approaches a critical party congress and challenges to his leadership, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has allowed four Members of Parliament he had ejected for not following his orders to support austerity measures to come back to the embattled party. Costas Skandalidis and Angela Gerekou, along with Michalis Kassis and Yiannis Koutsoukos will [...]
Hollande Pushes Investment In Greece
French President François Hollande, visiting Athens during a media blackout and a day ahead of a general strike against austerity, gave his support to the harsh conditions he opposes in his own country and said he wanted more French companies to take a chance and invest. The Socialist leader said he supports the Conservative-led coalition [...]
Coalition Talks Jobs, But No Answers
The leaders of Greece’s coalition government met on Feb. 18 to discuss the country’s record 27 percent unemployment rate and how to protect the country’s most vulnerable sector who have been the most affected by austerity measures, but nobody offered any solutions. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met with his partners, PASOK Socialist head Evangelos Venizelos [...]
SYRIZA Reclaims Lead Over New Democracy
While nearly a statistical dead-heat, the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) has taken a minimal lead of 0.9% over the New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in a poll published by the newspaper Eleftherotypia, and slightly larger lead in another. SYRIZA stands at 20.45% compared to 19.5% for New [...]
Samaras’ Next Targets: Strikers, Workers
Having crushed workers strikes with riot police, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras wants to make it tougher for workers to walk off the job and is setting his sights on reducing Greece’s hugely redundant civil servant sector. Under continued pressure from the country’s international lenders, the Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank [...]
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- AHEPA Day Celebration Hosted In Athens May 20, 2013
- Greek Gastronomy Days At Benaki Museum May 20, 2013
- Open Call for Greek Designers May 19, 2013
- Greece Celebrates International Museum Day on May 18 May 18, 2013
