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Economy
PASOK's Dim Elections Hopes Threaten Greek Government's Survival
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hopes of continuing his administration to the 2016 elections could depend not on the showing of his New Democracy Conservatives in this month's elections for Greek municipalities and the European Parliament, but of his coalition...
Economy
The Three Greek Election Scenarios: Lose, Lose, Lose
ATHENS – Greece’s critical June 17th elections have been framed as a euro vs. drachma dilemma, whether the country will stay in the Eurozone or be forced out and back to its ancient currency and into what most analysts...
Economy
Political Wars Begin: New Democracy-SYRIZA Clash
ATHENS – Even as a new Parliament briefly met and dissolved, Greece’s political parties were taking shots at each other ahead of a second round of elections on June 17 that could decide whether the country stays in the...
Economy
SYRIZA Surges in Polls, Sun Setting on Golden Dawn
ATHENS – Greece’s rising political leader of the left, 37-year-old Alexis Tsipras, whose refusal to back a coalition government in favor of more austerity measures, has taken his SYRIZA party into the lead for prospective new elections, a poll...
Economy
Tsipras Strikes Out – Now it's Venizelos' Turn
ATHENS – After Alexis Tsipras, leader of the SYRIZA Radical Coalition of the Left, failed in his bid to create a coalition government in the wake of Greece’s May 6 elections which resulted in a mandate against austerity measures...
Economy
Golden Dawn, Smaller Parties Will Get Campaign Air Time
ATHENS – Greece’s curious campaign laws, which allow the ruling parties to dominate television coverage regardless of newsworthiness, have been amended by the country’s highest court, the Council of State, opening the airwaves to smaller political parties, including the...
Economy
Greece Risks Leaving Eurozone, Says Venizelos
ATHENS – PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos said he believes the May 6 elections will not give his party or their bitter rival opponents of the New Democracy Conservatives a mandate, and that the uncertainty is raising the possibility...