Nikitas Kaklamanis
Economy
Venizelos Won't Oust Papandreou Over Bill Vote Defiance
PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos - without naming him - blistered former Socialist leader and previous premier George Papandreou for voting against a key article in a reform bill that passed Parliament, but didn't oust him or another veteran MP,...
Greece
Kouvelis Backs Kaminis For Mayor
With the ruling New Democracy Conservatives in disarray over the Athens' Mayor's race - officially supporting one of its lawmakers as a candidate and snubbing another - who had the office - incumbent George Kaminis has picked up the...
Greece
New Democracy's Marx Brothers For Mayor
Next to watching a Marx Brothers movie, nothing is as entertaining these days as watching Greece's New Democracy Capitalists running around like Keystone Cops trying to figure out who's in charge and who's doing what to who and why...
Greece
New Democracy Rift For Athens Mayor
The ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will back one of its Members of Parliament, Aris Spiliotopoulos as its candidate for Athens Mayor, creating an instant battle as another of the party's lawmakers and a former...
Economy
Greek MPs Set to OK 2014 Budget
Despite barking opposition to some reforms, lawmakers in Greece's ruling New Democracy Conservatives and PASOK Socialists are expected to roll over and approve a 2014 disputed budget even without knowing the size of a revenue gap nor how the...
Economy
Booted PASOK MP Rejects SYRIZA Too
Tossed out of the PASOK Socialists for defying orders to vote against a censure motion brought against Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, by the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA,) lawmaker Theodora...
Greece
Lawmakers OK Firing Scheme, Samaras Warns His
The Greek Parliament, as expected, approved an amendment critical to implementing a so-called mobility scheme in which workers will be transferred or fired, but Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told two of his New Democracy Conservative deputies who bucked him...
Economy
More Austerity Seen Coming For Greece
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...