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New Polls Cause Stir in Greek Political Scene

Recent opinion polls have been a cause for irritation for the leadership of SYRIZA. The polls that have been published during the last 24 hours show contradictory estimates and a halting of the momentum that the party has developed. A...

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...

Greeks Appear Undecided About Elections

As far as polls are concerned the electoral field has been converted into a tight knot for all parties, since it appears that people are still undecided. Two new polls that were published today, essentially show that the undecided vote...

Greece Wants Debt Cut, Not Another Bailout

Greece is raising the prospect of debt relief with international lenders as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced a primary surplus of 1.5 billion euros as proof the country's battered economy will begin to rebound this year. Samaras said, however, he...

Greece's Major Opposition Party Favors Golden Dawn MP'S Immunity Lift

  The parliamentary group of Greece’s major opposition party, SYRIZA, decided that the party’s MPs will vote in favor of the immunity lift of Golden Dawn’s MPs, after a similar recommendation was made by SYRIZA’s political secretariat last week. However, during...

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...

Eurozone Squeezes Greece For Troika Deal

While praising Greece publicly for making progress on reforms, Eurozone finance chiefs privately told Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras they are disappointed at the lack of progress and pressured him to come to terms with international lenders by March 14. During...

Troika Warns Against Greek Market Return

With Prime Minister Antonis Samaras touting what he says is a looming economic recovery this year, Greece's international lenders say he should forget about returning to the markets the country has been locked out of for four years because...

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...