New Democracy

Moving forward after the withdrawal of one of his coalition members, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras formulated a new alliance with the other coalition partner, the PASOK Socialists, in a new cabinet that gives his partner key ministerial positions. Samaras,...

Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou refused to appear again before a Parliamentary committee investigating his handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in Swiss bank accounts, saying it has already decided to indict...

In an extended article, the Guardian commented on Greek Prime Minister Samaras’ first day in office with his newly installed team, having to deal among others, with a 48-hour strike of tax employees and Piraeus port’s privatization discussions, while...

Still staggered by the withdrawal of one of his coalition partners but rebounding with a Cabinet reshuffle and an alliance with the PASOK Socialists, Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras had a good day on June...

The organization Group of People’s Fighters, through its website, has taken responsibility for the terrorist attack against the offices of the Greek political party New Democracy on Jan. 14 in which perpetrators opened fire, damaging the side of the...

Greece's Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras on June 26 warned former workers of the closed ERT national broadcaster who are maintaining an occupation and sending out programs via the Internet and satellite that they won't get severance pay as long...

ATHENS - After a series of talks over the shutdown of national broadcaster ERT and the firing of all 2,656 workers, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ coalition has lost one of its partners, but he said he will finish...

While Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras and his new Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos were patting each other on the back and praising their new collaboration, officials in the...

After three years of protests, strikes and riots against austerity measures and the New Democracy (ND) Conservative and PASOK Socialist parties for creating Greece's crushing economic crisis and imposing pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, a new cabinet...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and PASOK's Evangelos Venizelos were to meet on June 24 to discuss a shakeup in the Cabinet that will dump some of the Premier's ministers and replace them with Socialists to reward Venizelos for backing...