Politics

Greece has authorized its finance and justice ministers to seek an out-of-court settlement with German conglomerate Siemens AG (SI) in the coming days over bribery allegations, a senior government official said Thursday. "Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos and Justice Minister Miltiadis...

With pressure building on him to sign a bailout deal that would give Greece $175 billion more[...]

The new coalition government led by interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is not getting a reprieve from Greek workers, who will take to the streets on Dec. 1 to keep up their protest against austerity [...]

Greek PM Lucas Papademos met with Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker in Luxembourg Tuesday and ECB President Mario Draghi right afterwards in Frankfurt, ending a series of meetings with European leaders since last week. On Monday November 14, Papademos met with...

Athanasios (Arthur) Synodinos who has recently entered the Australian Senate is going to give his first speech before the members of the Senate on Wednesday. The election of Synodinos followed the retirement of former senior minister Helen Coonan earlier in...

Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker, who leads the group of euro-area finance ministers, said Greece’s political parties will submit their written commitment to austerity measures by Nov. 29. “It was not foreseen that Mr. Papademos would have a letter in his pocket,...

ATHENS – Greece’s interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, who is overseeing a shaky coalition of three parties, is trying to persuade international lenders to release a delayed $11 billion loan installment, without which the country will not be able...

ATHENS – Even Greeks inured to 18 months of protests, riots and strikes may not be ready for the next action against austerity measures: a wave of rolling 48-hour work stoppages planned by the labor union that oversees workers...

Reversing itself after insisting that leaders of Greece’s new coalition government would have to sign[...]

Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Yiorgos Papakonstantinou had meetings with Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz and Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov within the 3rd Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum (BSEEF), organized by...

ATHENS – As Greece continues to teeter on the edge of bankruptcy and is surviving on a series of international loans, Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos presented a 2012 budget blueprint that said the state would take in more money...

Thousands of protesters joined the annual November 17 march in Athens on Thursday on the one hand paying tribute to the student uprising against the junta regime in 1974, and on the other hand protesting against austerity measures imposed...

Clashes broke out between police and scores of hooded youths taking part in a march in central Athens[...]

ATHENS - Interim Prime Minster Lucas Papademos, as expected, easily won a vote of confidence from the Parliament his fractious coalition government controls for the next few months. Papademos, who oversees a shaky deal between the PASOK Socialists and...

Today was the first meeting between President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias and President of the pseudo-state TRNC Dervis Eroglu after their two-day tripartite meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on October 30-31 in NY. Their meeting revolved around...