Greece

Members of the national union of public hospital workers (POEDIN) on Monday clashed with police in a protest outside the Finance Ministry over ongoing austerity. Police fired tear gas at protesters who tried to storm the ministry building. Some protesters...

Anti-austerity protests took place on Wednesday in Athens. They are part of a general strike occurring concurrent to the Greek Parliament debating the bailout-related spending cuts. The protests outside of Parliament turned violent when, according to the AP, several dozen of protestors of...

Alexis Tsipras and his cabinet always find something to celebrate. From unfinished highways and under-equipped hospitals they inaugurate with aplomb worthy of banana republic dictators, to paltry handouts to pensioners after they had them drained with pension cuts. Oblivious...

While Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was negotiating with international creditors for the the country's salvation earlier today, a huge banner that urged Greek citizens to vote "No" in the July 5 referendum on the institutions' proposed bailout deal was hanged on the...

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras is practically the new Prime Minister of Greece spearheading a new coalition government formed by SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL). At 11.30 a.m. local time Panos Kammenos announced publicly his support and partnership in the new coalition...

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras is expected to become the new Prime Minister of Greece spearheading a new coalition government of SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL). The SYRIZA leader, along with Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos, campaigned on anti-austerity promises and reversing...

The protest rally of the Greek Communist Party labor organization PAME was deemed a success as the organizers claim that an estimated 20,000 people filled Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece, on Saturday noon. The organizers said that demonstrators wanted to...

Greeks and opposition parties emboldened by the Cypriot rejection of an unpopular bailout deal urged Athens to stand up to foreign lenders whose demands have resulted in repeated rounds of austerity that have pushed some 20 percent of Greeks...

Enraged by more coming pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, an estimated 60,000 people converged on the center of Athens on Feb. 21 during a 24-hour general strike that shut down services. Ferries stayed in port, schools closed, public...

ATHENS – Despite more than two years of record cost-cutting, including slashes in salaries and pensions in addition to record tax hikes demanded by international lenders in return for $325 billion in two bailouts, Greece’s economy is continuing its...

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande, the Socialist who rode an anti-austerity platform to victory and refused to talk with Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, has warmly welcomed PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos – who...

Support for the Greek leftist Syriza party, which was the second-most popular party in elections earlier this month, has grown even more, a new poll showed Thursday, indicating that it would garner the most support in a fresh vote...

"If you cannot find springtime, you invent it." Silent until now, Greece's poets on Wednesday added their voice to protests against austerity measures imposed on the country in return for EU-IMF loans. Some 1,000 self-styled "children of Homer", the epic...

Greece's largest unions held protests and a work stoppage Wednesday, as the crisis-hit country's coalition government pressed ahead with wage cuts and other austerity measures. The stoppage disrupted services at tax offices and other public agencies, and a protest was...

Some 25,000 anti-austerity Greek protesters gathered outside the Greek Parliament during a general strike rally of all trade unions on Tuesday. The adverse weather conditions in Athens were not enough to turn the crowds away. A group of protesters set...