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Samaras Coaxes Partners On Multi-Bill

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, met with his coalition partners on April 23 in a bid to convince them to support a multi-faceted bill of reforms that the country's international lenders are insisting be passed...

Strike Shuts Down Greek Tax Offices

With Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, hoping there won't be a repeat of last year's repeated strikes, protests and riots against austerity measures he's imposing on the orders of international lenders, workers in tax offices...

Greece Eyes Tax Cuts To Spur Economy

ATHENS – Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras said the country’s coalition government will try to persuade international lenders to allow a reduction in some taxes, particularly the 23 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) that is killing restaurants and taverns...

Greek Banks Immune For Political Loans

Greek financial prosecutors are preparing to send the findings of their investigations into party funding to the Parliament controlled by the parties who got the loans they haven't repaid even though recently-passed laws giving immunity to bank officials for...

New Democracy Back In The Lead

Greece's ruling New Democracy Conservatives have taken a razor-thin lead from the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party as the two continue to trade places heading opinion polls. A survey by Metron Analysis for Sunday's Eleftherotypia newspaper...

For Some, Greece's Junta Lives On

On the morning of April 21, 1967, Greeks suddenly found tanks in the streets of Athens as a coup of military leaders staged a junta that became known as The Regime of The Colonels and brought seven years of...

Samaras' Partners Ired Over New Ministers

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' planned appointment of six new deputy ministers has sparked renewed speculation he's planning a shakeup of his Cabinet, which he has repeatedly denied, and ired his coalition partners who said they weren't informed. The newspaper...

SYRIZA Holds Slight Lead Over ND

According to the latest poll, the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) has a razor-thin lead of 0.2 percent over the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives, a margin that effectively is a dead heat given the...

Loverdos Kicks Off Pact For New Greece

Andreas Loverdos, a former PASOK Socialist minister who was often at odds with his his party's leader Evangelos Venizelos, has bolted to form his own party called Pact for a New Greece and blistering his former party for becoming...

The Slow Death Of Greece’s KKE Communists

If she weren’t so obtuse, you could say that Aleka “Irrelevant” Papariga, who has dragged Greece’s Communist party down so low you’d need a microscope to find it - appropriate when you're looking for amoeba anyway - saw the...