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Venizelos: What Happened with Baltakos is Extreme and Unthinkable

Earlier on Sunday, PASOK leader and Greece ’s Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, held a press conference at a centrally located hotel in Athens on the priorities of his party and the ongoing domestic political developments for the upcoming...

Papandreou: PASOK Should Quit Coalition Government

Just a few days after voting against Greece's omnibus reform bill, former Greek prime minister and PASOK leader George Papandreou has further distanced himself from the government by urging PASOK members to exit the coalition led by conservative New Democracy under...

Papandreou Says "Baltakos' Resignation Not Enough"

Former Greek premier George Papandreou said Prime Minister Antonis Samaras can't settle for the resignation of his top aide who reportedly told the spokesman for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party the Premier tried to influence the judiciary and trumped...

PASOK In Panic Over Papandreou Defiance

PASOK's once-dominant Socialist party is in almost completely disarray in the aftermath of its former leader and previous Greek premier George Papandreou in an almost-open rebellion against the current leader, Evangelos Venizelos. Papandreou voted against a key banking article in...

Papandreou Says Vote Against Omnibill Was 'Principled Stance'

Two days after voting against the article in the Greek omnibus bill addressing the new framework on the recapitalization of Greece’s banks, which caused major disagreement within government and PASOK, party leader and former prime minister George Papandreou and was interviewed by Bloomberg...

EU Wary of Greek Hopes To Avoid Third Bailout

Fresh on the heels of the news that international lenders would release a long-delayed installment of 8.3 billion euros in three installments, the government said it won't need a third rescue package and hopes to return to the markets,...

Exclusive: Greece To Offer Free Worldwide Wi-Fi

Greece already gave the world Democracy, but the country that is currently coming out of a crisis is ready to give even more back to the world.  This time, it's Free Global Wi-Fi. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced a...

Venizelos Won't Oust Papandreou Over Bill Vote Defiance

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos - without naming him - blistered former Socialist leader and previous premier George Papandreou for voting against a key article in a reform bill that passed Parliament, but didn't oust him or another veteran MP,...

The PASOK Follies: Unfunniest Show On Earth

Just when things get grim in Greece, you can always turn to the vanishing PASOK Anti-Socialists for a few yuks, featuring their answer to Abbott and Costello, current leader Evangelos "The Opportunist" Venizelos and the man he succeeded, so...

Shootout In PASOK Lifeboat

PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos' already shaky hold on his fast-fading once-dominant party took another blow when Infrastructure Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis sided with the group's previous leader, former premier George Papandreou in a dispute over whether the Leftists should...