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With Greece's international lenders setting a deadline for the end of July 5 for the government to show progress on key reforms or face a delay or cut-off of an 8.1 billion euros ($10.6 billion) installment, negotiations reportedly were...

Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, who as finance minister in a previous Greek government imposed losses of 74 percent on investors and holders of Greek bonds - which pushed Cypriot banks to the edge of default and forced the...

In order to cover its lack in qualified workers, Germany recently launched a program of financial help to attract young people from around Europe, taking also into consideration that many EU countries show very high rates of unemployment. The program...

According to the leader of  the DIMAR party, Fotis Kouvelis, political leaders Samaras and Venizelos had already talked before the three of them held their meeting late last month. "If Mr. Venizelos said that he would do everything DIMAR does,...

His chair's not even warm yet but Greece's new Administrative Reform Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said he will ask the country's international lenders to give him a few more months to put together a scheme to start getting rid of...

Scraping for every vote he can get with his alliance government holding a slim majority in Parliament, Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras has taken back two former lawmakers, one who quit the party and another who...

Frustrated with stalled firings and foot-dragging, Greece's international lenders have given the government until the end of the week to pass reforms or face losing its next loan installment of 8.1 billion euros ($8.1 billion) four Eurozone officials said...

The Troika is back in town, and Greek officials said they are expecting "truly difficult" talks with envoys from the country's international lenders, the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) over lagging reforms and a 1-billion euro ($1.3...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras hinted to his party faithful at the close of New Democracy’s weekend conference on June 30 that he may be ready to change more than just its identity, but its name, to New Greece. Samaras...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras may yet have to break his promise not to impose more pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on beleaguered Greeks because of a billion-euro hole in the country's budget in the wake of...