Evangelos Venizelos

Tossed out of the PASOK Socialists for defying orders to vote against a censure motion brought against Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, by the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA,) lawmaker Theodora...

The longest-running story in Greece - the country's painstaking negotiations with international lenders, picked up again on Nov. 18 in yet another attempt to resolve differences over a range of issues before a pending one billion euro installment is...

If he's ever elected, major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZ) leader Alexis Tsipras said he would veto any European Union decision requiring unanimity to make the country's international lenders better the terms of their bailout deals -...

Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said the country's international lenders are on the verge of giving up demands for more austerity measures in return for continued aid and will come through with the money anyway, including a pending one...

As expected, as the government controls a bare majority of Parliament, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' Conservative-led coalition government won't have to face the prospect of new elections after lawmakers, by a margin of 153-124 voted against a motion...

Frantic to avoid imposing more austerity measures after vowing not to do so, the Greek government has told its international lenders that it can bring in 2.2 billion euros ($2.94 billion) in revenues by going after tax cheats -...

A motion brought by the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) to reprimand the government for authorizing a police raid on former workers occupying the headquarters of the now-defunct state broadcaster ERT set off fierce debate...

Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras filed a motion of censure on Nov. 7 in Parliament asking the members - a majority of whom are controlled by the government - to reprimand...

The order by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative party leader who convinced his coalition partner, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos to drop his objections to a Nov. 7 dawn riot police raid to oust former...

After meeting yet again, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, and his coalition partner and Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, agreed there would be no further austerity measures and presented a unified front in...