Politics

Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras reportedly is going to ask French officials to deliver the original list of 1,991 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in the Geneva branch of HSBC Bank to check for possible tax evasion after special...

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras held talks on Oct. 10 with Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, was  paying his first visit to Greece since the conservative-led coalition government was formed in June. Relations between the two regional rivals have improved...

Ignoring protests by 50,000 people against the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to meet him in Athens on Oct. 9, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said it was proof Greece is being welcomed back into the international arena and...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Athens on Oct. 9 brought out protesters of all stripes, including people dressed as Nazis and even a naked man who ran through a crowd in downtown Athens, which applauded while he displayed...

A spontaneous protest was held on Oct. 9 in Brussels in front of the Greek embassy, against the visit to Athens of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Left-wing activists, Members of the European Parliamen from the Greek Coalition of the Radical...

German media reports on Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Athens to meet Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Oct. 9 concentrated not on the economic talks but the protests which caricatured her as a bullying Nazi. Most mass media published pictures...

While protests raged a few blocks from where she was having quiet talks with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that she said showed progress in his attempt to impose more austerity measures to help right the economy, German Chancellor Angela...

Greece's official creditors failed to make any visible headway Monday in averting the country's looming debt crunch, drawing a diplomatic veil over suggestions of "heated" exchanges at their latest meeting. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and EU officials...

About 8,000 demonstrators chanted anti-austerity slogans and hoisted banners warning Angela Merkel she was not welcome in Greece at a protest on Monday, the eve of a visit by the German chancellor. Organized by labor unions fed up with wage...

A Greek businessman who had been accused of being part of the bribery and money laundering network involving former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, who is in jail on charges of stealing as much as $1.29 billion from defense contracts...

Worried that planned protests during German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Athens on Oct. 9 could escalate into violence, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had directed that all rallies and gatherings be banned while she's in the city to...

As German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to visit Athens on Oct. 9 to meet Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäeuble said Greece will get a delayed $38.8 billion loan installment that is the last due...

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, blasted for failing to check on a list of 1,991 Greeks with $1.95 billion in deposits in a Swiss bank, said it wasn’t his fault and blamed his predecessors, former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, and...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Oct. 7, that Chancellor Angela Merkel's trip to Greece this week does not mean the debt-stricken country will receive the next tranche of aid for its bailout. "The chancellor will not discuss with Greece...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel – who many Greeks view as the architect of the austerity measures that have ruined their lives – will likely face angry crowds when she visits Athens on Oct. 9 to meet with Prime Minister...