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Epikaira Magazine Presents New Book "Karamanlis-Off the Record"

Epikaira Magazine featured on Thursday several chapters with unknown information and data concerning the Karamanlis government and the former Greek PM's policy lines and life throughout the years he had served as Greece's PM. All missing links are included in...

OECD Report Questions Greece's Ability to Reform

The need for deep structural reforms in Greece is well-known. But a new OECD report indicates that Athens may be incapable of such far-reaching changes. Ministries don't communicate, officials don't keep records and oversight is virtually nonexistent. The only...

Papandreou Being Pushed Out by His Own Party

ATHENS – A growing number of PASOK Socialist ministers and lawmakers are intensifying the pressure on their leader, former Prime Minister George Papandreou, to step aside quickly and let the party find a new leader ahead of snap elections...

PASOK and New Democracy at Daggers Drawn Over Past

Just as the European Union is experiencing the most serious economic crisis in its existence and with Greece on the verge of bankruptcy, the two major parties forming Greece's national salvation government are taking every opportunity to clash and...

Call for Coalition Government to Stay On Until 2013

ATHENS – Following remarks from New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras that elections tentatively scheduled for Feb. 19 will probably have to be rescheduled because a temporary coalition government won’t be able to finish the work of keeping international...

Greek Steven Tsitas Elected New Mayor of Darebin

Darebin City Council has appointed a new Mayor for 2011-2012, Cr Steven Tsitas, in a Special Meeting of Council on Monday 5 December. In his commencement speech, Darebin Mayor Cr Steven Tsitas said his appointment marked the first time an...

Papandreou Under Pressure to Quit as PASOK Leader

Almost a month after he resigned as Prime Minister, George Papandreou is clinging to power as the head of the embattled PASOK Socialists, but a growing number of lawmakers and former ministers[...]

Poll: 76.7% Want To Stay In Euro

Poll conducted for Mega TV by pollster GPO (1,400 polled) shows 88% said they suffered a drop in income this year and 80.7% expect conditions to worsen next year. Despite this 76.7% of those polled said they wanted to stay...

Temporary Greek Property Tax Surcharge May be Permanent

ATHENS – Of all the new slew of taxes imposed on Greeks to help the country from going bankrupt, perhaps the most hated – the so-called “haratsi,” or Turkish tax, a second property tax, that is being put into...

Joe Biden Has Arrived in Athens

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Athens for a two-day visit during which he will meet Greece's political leadership. Biden was greeted at Athens International Airport by Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos. Biden will meet Monday with President Karolos...

Samaras: Election Date May be Changed

The date of the early parliamentary elections in Greece, tentatively scheduled for February 2012, may be changed, a leader of the conservative New Democracy party said. The elections were tentatively scheduled for February 19, 2012. "If the voluntary 'haircut' is completed...

Papandreou Says EU Regulators Share in Greek Debt Crisis

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said European Union regulators and credit rating agencies bear some blame for his nation’s debt crisis. Papandreou, who resigned last month, said of the debt crisis that his predecessors “didn’t really see it coming,”...

Do Greek Lawmakers Have Secret Swiss Bank Accounts?

ATHENS – As Greece’s economic crisis worsens and intensifies, new scrutiny is being brought on the 300 Members of Parliament, whose pay and benefits is more than members of the United States Congress, and some of whom are said...

Serbian Foreign Minister Meets with Greek Counterpart

Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic paid a short visit to Greece on 2 December.  Jeremic met with his Greek counterpart Stavros Dimas. During the meeting Stavros Dimas emphasized that Greece supports Serbia within Europe. On his part, Vuk...