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Samaras To Troika: Show Me The Money

After reaching a still mostly-secret agreement with international lenders, which included a big cut in how much money from a primary surplus would go to people most affected by austerity, Greece now wants a quick release of a long-delayed...

The PASOK Follies: Unfunniest Show On Earth

Just when things get grim in Greece, you can always turn to the vanishing PASOK Anti-Socialists for a few yuks, featuring their answer to Abbott and Costello, current leader Evangelos "The Opportunist" Venizelos and the man he succeeded, so...

Greece Races To Finish Troika Deal

Greek officials on March 16 were pushing to meet a self-imposed deadline by the end of the day to conclude a long-sought deal with envoys from official lenders before a next-day session of Eurozone finance ministers in hopes of...

No More Coffee Breaks For Greek MPs

Greek Members of Parliament - who already get bonuses to attend committee meetings on top of their salaries of almost 6,000 euros a month - now will have to pay for their own coffee, cookies and water during board...

Greece, Troika Wrangle Over Surplus

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' vow to return 70 percent of an expected 1.5 billion euro ($2.07 billion) primary surplus to people most affected by crushing austerity measures is being challenged by international lenders who want more of it diverted...

Troika Deal Hopes Set For April

Missing a deadline to reach a deal on unresolved reforms before the March 10 meeting of Eurozone finance chiefs, Greece is bnow hoping to make an agreement with its international lenders in April so that they will release a...

Opinion Poll: SYRIZA and Giannis Sgouros in the Lead

A Kappa Research opinion poll concerning the upcoming European Parliament election and local elections carried out on behalf of the newspaper “To Vima,” shows SYRIZA and the current Head of the Region of Attica in the lead. In particular, the...

Political Rift Uproots Olive Tree Movement

The founding congress of Greece's new Elia (Olive Tree) movement trying to unify the country's fractured left broke apart as it began when forces loyal to former prime minister George Papandreou refused to back current PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos...

Troika Wants Greek Politics Transparency

Greece's international lenders want an end to the practice of political parties taking money from the state treasury and spending it any way they want and are asking for accountability and transparency in a political system critics said is...

Polls Show Death Knell for PASOK

Little more than four years after winning the Prime Minister's office with 44 percent of the vote, the PASOK Socialists who are partners in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' New Democracy Conservative government are on the edge of extinction with...