Politics

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's snap decision to shut down public broadcaster ERT by decree to get around the Parliament has backfired in the opinion of Greeks who oppose it by a 2-to-1 margin, polls have found. A Kapa Research...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who ordered the firing of all 2,656 workers at the national broadcaster ERT to satisfy international lenders, is going to follow up with the dismissal of another 800 civil servants from state organizations which...

Hoping to one day shed the ignominious mantle of the most corrupt country in the European Union, the Greek government said it would file legislation to increase the fines for taking kickbacks and bribes to as much as 50...

Hounded by howls of protests within Greece and Europe over the closing of the national broadcaster ERT to meet demands by international lenders to start firing public servants, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has reportedly agreed to let information programs...

The television viewers of Crete have been able to watch the state TV program since 13.30. The TV screen that turned black on the night of June 11 is broadcasting live with programs run by journalists and technicians of the...

Eleven-year-old Nikiforos Papadopoulos sent a letter to the Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, concerning the closing down of the state public broadcaster, ERT. “I wrote and sent a letter to the prime minister and I asked him to re-open ERT...

With Greece's crushing economic crisis creating an exodus, especially the young, to other countries, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD,) said that Germany remains the destination of choice for them. Germany ranks fifth in the list for...

While attention in Greece is locked squarely on the shutdown of the national broadcaster ERT and the crisis it has provoked with the coalition government, the country's international lenders privately approved release of a pending loan installment of 3.3...

Former prime minister, George Papandreou, gave a speech on the pressure  exerted on him by his European partners in April 2010 to impose severe austerity cuts, at an event held in Edinburgh, Scotland. Papandreou even revealed the dialogues he had...

Amid complaints of favoritism and patronage from disgruntled and angry former staff members of the Greek national broadcaster ERT, all 2,656 of whom were fired by the government on June 11 with five minutes notice, Athens Prosecutor of Corruption...

Greece's highest court, the Council of State, will decide on Jun 17 whether to overturn the decision by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to shut down the national broadcaster ERT and fire all 2,656 workers, although he said a slimmed-down...

Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras has set a June 18 meeting with his coalition partners, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who are demanding he withdraw a decree that...

If a growing political crisis surrounding the Greek coalition government over the closing of the national broadcaster ERT by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras- a move that made him lose the support of his coalition partners - leads to early...

With defiant journalists and workers at the Greek national broadcaster ERT - which the government shut down on June 11 - staying on the air and being shown on the Internet and through the Communist KKE channel, the government...

The European Commission has no right to criticize Turkey about the ongoing riots in Istanbul and across the country, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, unleashing a harsh attack on leaders of the bloc he wants his country to...