New Democracy

After weeks of arduous negotiations over long-delayed reforms, Greece and its international lenders neared agreement on most major issues, although it's still uncertain how the government will reduce the workforce. The Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank...

The company Metrisi has conducted a poll for the newspaper Parapolitika. The poll shows that the Greek political parties SYRIZA and New Democracy are neck and neck in voting intentions, with SYRIZA preceding by 0.4 percent. According to the polling...

With the Greek government backing off commitments to fire up to 8,000 public workers who are disciplinary problems, have committed felonies, faked their credentials, are insubordinate or present problems in other areas, surprise inspections of ministries and and state...

Only days after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said that for the first time since austerity measures were imposed three years ago that more people were being hired than fired, the country’s statistics agency ELSTAT said unemployment hit another...

Saying they weren't satisfied with a written deposition in which he claimed to know nothing about a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts that was in the hands of his appointed finance minister, a parliamentary committee again...

Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras said that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition government's constant relenting to demands from international lenders is proof that the country needs new leadership and accused the New Democracy Conservative leader...

Greece's international lenders have reportedly agreed to allow the government to hire 1,000 new public workers - if it fires 1,000 problem workers found to have violated their oaths or faced disciplinary action for a range of issues such...

With envoys from international lenders set to hit Athens on April 4, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has agreed to a compromise plan proposed by his coalition partners that would roll a 100 percent property tax surcharge into a...

Continuing a trend of recent polls that shows virtually no difference in support for the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives and their major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA,) the two parties remain essentially deadlocked. But Prime Minister Antonis...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who is leader of the New Democracy Conservative party, will brief his coalition partners, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos, and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, on the government's strategy to deal with international...