Simitis

The government of Tony Blair in the UK backed loaning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece in 2004, declassified documents reveal. In the early 2000s, progress on resolving the thorn in bilateral ties appeared imminent. Greece proposed a then-novel solution, suggesting...

In less than four decades, Ireland, unlike Greece, has gone from one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest. On the contrary, Greece not only went bankrupt but was left behind, far behind. By George K....

Greece's already-uneasy coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, and his reluctant partner, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos took another shot when PASOK leaders - including Venizelos - criticized former ND leader and premier...

Former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, on trial for money-laundering and corruption charges, said that the charges against him came from “political and judicial centers of power” that are based on “desires from above” - and pointed the finger...

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, who was named Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras' government after reversing his opposition to the closing of the national broadcaster ERT, said he agrees...

In her biography My Greek Drama,  the woman who led the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took shots at politicians whose paths crossed hers during that contentious time. She said the book is "a...

The first morning hours of 11 April 2012, the Public prosecutor Popi Papandreou rang the bell of the neoclassical house at Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, announcing the former Minister of Defense his arrest warrant for political money laundering. Akis Tsochatzopoulos...

Already in detention, sentenced to eight years in prison for failing to disclose his wealth, and facing more serious charges of money laundering and corruption, former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos is being investigated by Swiss prosecutors trying to...

In an apparent attempt to revise his role in the Greek economic crisis when he was finance minister, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has claimed that the country's international lenders in 2011 offered a chance for an exit from...

Despite a $134 billion debt write-down last year and new international loans pouring in, Greece’s economy is still in such bad shape that the country needs another debt reduction, former prime minister Costas Simitis said he believes. In an interview...