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Economy
Greece Says Troika Deal In Sight
With Greece's international lenders setting a deadline for the end of July 5 for the government to show progress on key reforms or face a delay or cut-off of an 8.1 billion euros ($10.6 billion) installment, negotiations reportedly were...
Cyprus
Cyprus Awaits Foreign Minister Venizelos
Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, who as finance minister in a previous Greek government imposed losses of 74 percent on investors and holders of Greek bonds - which pushed Cypriot banks to the edge of default and forced the...
Culture
Giannaras Says Greece's Problems Political
Well-known University of Athens Professor Christos Giannaras, jumping into the debate about the dysfunctional state of Greece, blamed its problems on the usual suspects, primarily a bloated public sector notoriously inefficient which has weighed down the economy for decades.
Giannaris...
Economy
Merkel: No New Greek Debt Cut
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is no chance that Greece will be allowed to write down its debt again, this time by imposing big losses on its public lenders the same way it did to private investors,...
Economy
Greece Plays Troika For Time
His chair's not even warm yet but Greece's new Administrative Reform Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said he will ask the country's international lenders to give him a few more months to put together a scheme to start getting rid of...
Economy
ND Regains 2 MP's, Another Wants Golden Dawn
Scraping for every vote he can get with his alliance government holding a slim majority in Parliament, Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras has taken back two former lawmakers, one who quit the party and another who...
Greece
Voridis Snipe At Andreas Papandreou Opens Rift
Only days after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras brought the PASOK Socialists into an alliance government with his New Democracy Conservatives - which he had said he would never do - the fragile administration has opened a wound after...
Economy
Will New Democracy Become New Greece?
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras hinted to his party faithful at the close of New Democracy’s weekend conference on June 30 that he may be ready to change more than just its identity, but its name, to New Greece.
Samaras...
Crime
SDOE Eyes 36 Pols For Money Crimes
Greece's financial crimes squad SDOE is reportedly looking at a raft of top-ranking politicians in Greece for possible unlawful enrichment, but the leak of the 36 names has set Greek officials on a hunt to find who did it....
Economy
Fading Kouvelis Seeks New Partners
A week after his party pulled out of the ruling coalition following a dispute over Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s unilateral decision to close down state broadcaster ERT, Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis lashed out at his former partners in...