Politics

The Turkish Cypriot leader, Dervis Eroglu, ordered the formation of a transitional "government", until the conducting of early "parliamentary elections" in the occupied part of Cyprus on July 28, to female MP Sibel Siber of the Republican Turkish Party...

Former Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, told an audience in Athens that the region's financial crisis - with Greece in the epicenter - started in the United States. Juncker blamed the Americans for their attitudes toward...

The Human Rights Union Party denounced the acts of vandalism against it that took place during the electoral campaign in Albania. For the fourth time, unknown people destroyed billboards with posters which bore the photo of the president of the...

June 10 was a somber day in the Greek village of Distomo, the 69th anniversary of the massacre of most of its citizens by Nazis in a reprisal raid. On that day in 1944, an SS phalanx, along with other...

While the Greek economy shrank 5.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter this year, the Finance Ministry said the primary deficit also fell as deep spending cuts offset less-than-expected tax revenues that were far off...

With the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and one of his two coalition partners, the PASOK Socialists, failing to pay banks 250 million euros ($330.65 million) in loans and giving immunity to loan officers for...

A second trial for Greek investigative journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, who was cleared last year of breaching privacy rights but is being prosecuted again on the same charge because the prosecution was unhappy he was acquitted, has been postponed to...

Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras has lambasted Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras for staying with austerity measures ordered by international lenders even though the International Monetary Fund...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' relentless drumbeat that he has saved Greece from economic  collapse, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, nonetheless is paying off as a poll by the MRB agency shows his New Democracy Conservatives have...

On the heels of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) admitting it vastly underestimated the effect of austerity measures in Greece demanded as part of bailouts, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will have to negotiate tough new terms with the country's...

After Stephen Jones, a Member of Parliament for Australia's Labor Party gave a speech insisting that his country recognize FYROM as The Republic of Macedonia, Foreign Minister Bob Carr gave reassurances that the government didn't back him. Carr told Steve...

The central committee of Synaspismos, the main party within the coalition that forms (SYRIZA) - the major opposition party opposing the tripartite Greek partnership government led by Prime Minister and New Democracy  Conservative leader Antonis Samaras -  is due...

A new restructuring of the Greek debt, an open debate on Germany’s responsibility towards the people of the European Union since World War II and the country’s straightforward participation in Greece’s recovery were Chatzimarkakis’s suggestions at the event on...

The spokesman and a Member of Parliament for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Ilias Kasidiaris, whipped up controversy while addressing the body after he suggested that he - like his party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos -  is a Holocaust denier. During...

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) asked the German government to reveal “the truth about Greece” and the danger according to which German taxpayers may lose part of the rescue packages’ money, in the light of the International...