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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 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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...