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Greece
SYRIZA Tries To Find Its Roots
Greece's major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRZA) on July 10 began a five-day conference hoping to unify its diversified base and find common ground against the government of Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative party...
Economy
Kouvelis Skewers Samaras, Venizelos
Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis, who took his party out of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' previous coalition government, said he walked out because the Premier and PASOK Socialist leader had conspired to set up an administration without him and...
Economy
Samaras Sends More Austerity To Parliament
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has forwarded to the Parliament that his coalition government controls a bill that imposes more of the austerity measures he vowed not to implement and which begins the process of firing redundant workers hired for...
Economy
Greece Sets 4,200 Worker Layoffs
The Greek government has identified 4,200 workers, mostly teachers, school janitors, crossing guards and municipal police officers who will be the first to be fired if other positions can’t be found for them.
They will be put into a so-called...
Economy
Samaras Says Times a-Changin' in Greece
Greece will not change unless it takes on populism and extremism, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a meeting of his New Democracy party political committee.
“You cannot change a country if you do not fight and win the battle of...
Greece
New Poll Shows ND-Syriza Derby
According to the latest VPRC opinion poll for tvxs, Syriza is slightly ahead of New Democracy with 0.5 percent. In particular, Syriza proceeds with 28.5 percent, while ND gathers 28 percent. Golden Dawn follows with 14.5 percent. The Communist...
Greece
Venizelos Shares Samaras' Vision
PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, who was named Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras' government after reversing his opposition to the closing of the national broadcaster ERT, said he agrees...
Greece
In Greece, Justice Really Is Blind
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras must awake each morning and say it really is good to be king. The King, after all, not only is above the law, he sets the law, and in the plutocratic oligarchy that is...
Economy
Greek Bank Chief Joins Troika Talks
As the government tries frantically to satisfy international lenders it is making enough progress in reforms to trigger release of a delayed 8.1 billion euro ($10.6 billion) installment, Bank of Greece Governor Giorgos Provopoulos is jumping into the fray...
Crime
Panels Asks Charges For Papaconstantinou
A Greek Parliamentary committee investigating the handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that has never been checked for possible tax cheats has recommended former finance minister George Papaconstantinou be charged...