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SYRIZA Back In The Lead Over ND

The major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), in a horse race with the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives for popular support, has eked out a narrow lead over the rivals in a new poll, although the...

New Democracy Takes Slim Lead Over SYRIZA

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy (ND) Conservatives continued to hold a lead over the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) but by less than 1 percent in a poll conducted by the Marc/Alpha agency. ND had...

Samaras Orders Teachers To Work Exams

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, for the third time this year, will reportedly issue a civil mobilization order forcing civil servants to work, this one against teachers before they could even begin a strike that would have postponed the...

Corruption Prosecutors Quit, Hand Over Cases

Ongoing investigators into a myriad of corruption cases in Greece are being turned over to new special prosecutors after the two men handling them, Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis - who had ruffled feathers with their aggressive stance against...

IMF Says Greek Elite Still Protected

After an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report found that Greece was making progress in overhauling its public finances and competitiveness, the government was left to explain why there's been little change in public administration and the failure to go...

Dendias Says Golden Dawn Could Be Banned

After the European Union’s human rights chief said that there’s enough evidence of violence being perpetrated by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that has 18 seats in Parliament to outlaw the group, Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the...

Greek Lifetime Job Guarantee In Peril

With the coming firing of 15,000 workers, it seemed that Greece was finally going to bend to demands from international lenders to reduce its bloated public workforce – except that it’s going to hire 15,000 younger workers to replace...

Venizelos Squeezed To Oust Papandreou

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has reportedly been urged by party members to eject former Prime Minister George Papandreou, the man he replaced, for alleged financial mismanagement over 114 million euros ($149.2 million) in funds reportedly missing from party...

Eurogroup OK's 2.8B Euros For Greece

Satisfied with passage of a multi-faceted bill that will lead to the removal of 15,000 public workers over the next two years, the Eurogroup of Eurozone finance officials on April 29 approved the release of a 2.8 billion euros...

Four Cleared in Zachopoulos Sex Video

Six years after a so-called Sex, Lies and Videotape scandal rocked the government of then Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, four people have been acquitted of charges they violated the privacy of former Culture Ministry general secretary Christos Zachopoulos. An appeals...