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It's Easy To Find The Greeks Who Can't Steal Straight

There’s so many scandals in Greece that you need a scorecard to keep them straight and they all involve politicians, businessmen and connected people who thought, often with much justification that either they were too smart to get caught,...

Yet Another Greek Splinter Party

Two former members of New Democracy who were ejected from the ruling party after refusing to obey orders to vote for austerity measures have joined forces to create their own party, another in a grouping of challengers to the...

Greece's Major Opposition Party Stable in the Lead

A new Marc opinion poll carried out on behalf of the Greek site, layout.gr, shows that Greece's major opposition party leads by 2 percent over New Democracy. The opinion poll places SYRIZA first with 23.3 percent followed in 2nd by...

PASOK MP's Want Tax Talk Answers

Nervous lawmakers from the PASOK Socialists who are the junior partner in Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and New Democracy Conservative party leader's government say they want an explanation about taxes they say are damaging to the ruling parties. New Democracy...

Filippidis Returns To Greece, Arrested On The Spot

The former chairman of the failed state-owned Hellenic Postbank, Angelos Filippidis returned to Greece on Feb. 5 even as authorities were urging his re-arrest and extradition from Turkey where he had been initially taken into custody before being released...

Tsipras Says Samaras In Panic Mode

Major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras said a decision by Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras ruling out any possibility of a coalition shows the Premier is panicking while trying to hold together...

Greece Legalizes Political Bank Robbery

The great American convict Willie Sutton said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is.” And, of course, he was one-upped by Al Capone who said: “You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word and...

Kouvelis, Loverdos Talk Team-Up

With his party on the verge of extinction, Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis is looking to hook up with a former PASOK Socialist minister, Andreas Loverdos, whose own new party Pact for a New Greece, doesn't even register...

Samaras Says No Early Elections

With his coalition government's support falling, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has insisted that he will stay the course until scheduled elections in 2016, dismissing speculation about an early vote to coincide with polls in May for local government...

J.P. Morgan: Elections in 2014 and SYRIZA's Win

In an economic research note of January 28, the American investment bank J.P. Morgan sees a significant chance (70%) of elections in Greece before the end of the 1st trimester of 2015. Its basic case is that the elections...