Evangelos Venizelos

Buried under crushing austerity measures imposed to offset a staggering debt largely caused by generations of political parties hiring hundreds of thousands of needless workers for the public payroll, Greeks can't afford electricity, with unpaid bills growing at the...

Just a day after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader and his coalition partner and Deputy Premier, PASOK chief Evangelos Venizelos said they would make changes to an onerous property tax bill that was causing...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his coalition partner Evangelos Venizelos agreed on Wednesday that the government should make changes to its property tax bill in a bid to overcome opposition from their MPs but faced the prospect of...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Oct. 30 at the start of a two-day visit to talk about the country's lagging privatization program and Russian interests in state enterprises, a few months...

Fresh off reneging on promises not to impose more austerity measures, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, and his Deputy Prime Minister, PASOK Socialist chief  Evangelos Venizelos are scheduled for another powwow on Oct. 30...

The military parade in Thessaloniki for the celebration of the National "Oxi" Day, the 28th of October, took place in a foggy climate-actual and political-and in the presence of the President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias. Today’s parade was marked...

Greek Prime Minister and leader of the New Democracy (ND) party Antonis Samaras and Government Vice President and PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos agreed on Wednesday on a policy platform of the two government coalition partners. According to the text, which...

This Wednesday, one day before the  summit meeting in Brussels, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and PASOK leader and government’s vice president, Evangelos Venizelos will have a face to face conversation in order to set out Greece’s “red lines,”...

Costas Simitis, former Greek prime minister (1996-2004) and PASOK leader, aims for the presidency of the Greek Republic in spring of 2015, according to his intimate circle. This is the reason behind his more and more frequent appearances in...

As the Greek Parliament was sworn in to a new session on Oct. 7, with a benediction performed by Metropolitan Bishop of Skyros Seraphim and members of the Permanent Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, the head of...