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Former Defense Official Charged in Kickback Scheme

A former Greek defense ministry official who was a close associate of jailed former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos has been arrested and charged in a kickback scheme tied to his former boss’ alleged money-laundering scheme that netted a reported...

Blaming Venizelos Over Swiss Bank List, Ragousis Quits PASOK

Angered that his party’s leader, who, as a former finance minister, failed to act on a list of 2,000 Greeks with 1.5 billion euros ($1.93 billion) in deposits in a Swiss bank to check for possible tax evasion, Yiannis...

Troika Won't Back Down on Greek Austerity

International lenders are not relenting on demands that the Greek government push ahead with combined package of $17.45 billion in spending cuts and tax hikes, leading to further delays before it can be sent to Parliament and open the...

Troika Rejects $2.58 Billion in Greek Budget Plan

With a report showing Greece will suffer a sixth year of recession in 2013 because of harsh austerity measures, envoys from the Troika of international lenders putting up $325 billion in rescue monies reportedly rejected two billion euros ($2.58...

Samaras Says Greeks Now Have Hope

With the country’s economy still sinking, unemployment and social unrest rising and under pressure from his coalition partners and international lenders, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he believes that he has brought Greece back from the brink of...

Greece’s Golden Dawn Embracing Extremist Role

ATHENS -  Although Greece country suffers through a crushing economic crisis, most citizens are not desperate enough to embrace the hate rhetoric and immigrant-bashing of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. “They have a bad history and violence breeds violence,” Athens...

Greek Budget Cut Plan in Troika's Hands

While details of a 13.5 billion euros ($17.34 billion) plan to cut spending and raise revenues haven’t yet been made available to the public, the package is reportedly in the hands of envoys from international lenders who have to...

New Democracy, PASOK, Can't Pay Bank Loans

As Greece struggles through a crushing economic crisis with many people unable to pay debts because of big salary cuts and tax hikes,  the two parties that ruled Greece for four decades before this year’s elections produced a coalition...

Facing Graft Probe, Greek Parliament President May Quit

Greek Parliament President Vangelis Meimarakis, who suspended himself during a reported probe into the bank accounts of 36 politicians that allegedly found huge sums in their bank accounts for which they couldn’t account, is feeling the heat and said...

Samaras Closes In on Budget Cut Deal

Greece’s uneasy coalition government has nearly reached agreement on all the measures in a $14.6 billion spending cut plan, one of its members said, without revealing what they were. Emerging from a meeting with Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative...