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Former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos said his eight-year jail sentence for failing to disclose his wealth, for which he was also fined 520,000 euros ($678,350) was “political persecution under a legal cloak” and directed by the government to get...

Former Greek Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, held in detention for 11 months on multiple charges of embezzling, money-laundering and stealing as much as 1 million euros ($1.32 billion) from defense contracts, was sentenced on March 4 to an eight-year...

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, presiding over a party that is evaporating in polls because of unrelenting support for austerity measures that are antithetical to its founding principles, said there is no alternative to the coalition government led...

In an apparent attempt to revise his role in the Greek economic crisis when he was finance minister, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has claimed that the country's international lenders in 2011 offered a chance for an exit from...

Immigrant children living in Greece made their case for citizenship on Feb. 27 at a news conference held at the offices of the Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers, under the title Citizenship for All Children. "We claim citizenship...

Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which has actively been recruiting high schoolers to indoctrinate them, has been giving what it calls “national awareness” lessons to elementary school students aged 6-10 to teach them “Greek ideals,” its officials have admitted. On...

Greece needs to drastically reduce its bloated public sector and keep administering more reforms to get out from under its crushing economic crisis, Former Prime Minister Constantinos Mitsotakis, speaking at the launch of a publication about his time in...

Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, a former sprinter who studied medicine, earning him the nickname "The Flying Doctor," before becoming Mayor of Thessaloniki from 1999-2010, was found guilty by a court there on Feb. 26 of stealing almost 18 million euros ($23.56...

In a report that is already outdated, the European Commission has projected the Greek economy will contract 4.4 percent this year, the deficit reach 4.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – and that unemployment would reach 27 percent,...

As he approaches a critical party congress and challenges to his leadership, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has allowed four Members of Parliament he had ejected for not following his orders to support austerity measures to come back to...