Syriza
Greece
Tsipras Launches SYRIZA European Election Campaign
Greece's main opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday kicked off his party's European election campaign urging Greeks to "rise up". He asked the Greek people to send a message to the "government of subservience", and stressed that that the...
Crime
SYRIZA Demands Parliament Debate On Baltakos Affair
Leftist SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has written to Parliament Speaker Evangelos Meimarakis demanding he allow a debate over a leaked video that showed a former top aide to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras alleging charges against the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn...
Economy
Samaras Looks To Growth, Debt Relief Next
Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, who once said Greece didn't need debt relief, on April 28 confirmed that it does and that the government next week will begin the process of asking international lenders to restructure 240 billion euros in...
Greece
Tsipras to Miss European Commission Candidates' Debate
The first of four debates between the four candidates for the presidency of the European Commission will take place in Maastricht Monday, and is set to be broadcasted live on Euronews at 8pm Athens time.
Jean Claude Juncker of the...
Greece
Samaras Wants To Change The Constitution
Believing that the worst of Greece's economic crisis is over, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras now is expected to move toward changing the Constitution in a bid to restore confidence in government and politics.
Among the changes he wants reviewed is...
Greece
Tsipras Meets Soares During Campaign in Portugal
The European South must collaborate to overthrow austerity, legendary Socialist politician Mario Soares said in Porto, northwest Portugal, late on Saturday, following a meeting with Greek main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, who is campaigning as European Commission candidate...
Economy
New Samaras Shuffle, Stournaras to Bank of Greece
With one eye on a hopeful economic recovery and the other on next month's critical elections for Greek municipalities and the European Parliament, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is reportedly planning yet another Cabinet shakeup that will see Finance Minister...
Greece
Tsipras: "Government has Admitted to New Memorandum"
Greece's main opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras told newspaper Realnews on Saturday that Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras has admitted to the existence of a new memorandum.
"This admission tears to shreds the claims made by that we are...
Greece
SYRIZA Leads Euro/Local Elections Poll but ND Gets National Vote
Polls give main opposition SYRIZA a slight lead over New Democracy for the upcoming European and municipal elections, but the ruling coalition senior still has the edge at a national level.
Conducted by ALCO and published in Greek newspaper Proto Thema on Saturday,...
Greece
Greece’s Success Story is Killing People
While Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his cohorts were celebrating because Greece floated a bond, a 35-year-old woman fell – without floating – to her death when she jumped off a building in the western Athens neighborhood in Peristeri.
That...