Politics

New Democracy Member of Parliament Byron Polydoras has struck a nerve with the appointment of his daughter as a permanent employee in his temporary office as the President of Parliament after the May 6 elections that failed to...

The Communist-inspired President of Greece’s most powerful labor union is threatening to have workers at the country’s biggest power plant turn off the electricity around the country in the height of the tourist season to protest government plans to...

ATHENS – Greece’s already uneasy coalition government is fraying further as a dispute has developed between Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his Leftist partners, who said they will not go along with a plan being considered to lay...

PIRAEUS -Police said that a gang led by members of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn invaded a ship and tried to attack a 21-year-old Pakistani immigrant charged in the beating and sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl on this...

ATHENS – Saying that “the numbers don’t add up,” for Greece to make 11.5 billion euros ($14.16 billion) in cuts ordered by international lenders to keep lifeline loans coming, Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras said the new coalition government is...

ATHENS - Greek Communist Party Aleka Papariga has denounced the roundup of 6,000 immigrants, under the code name Xenios Zeus, as inhuman and violating their human rights. Papariga stated that, “The Greek police forces are hiding an alternative reality...

ATHENS - Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, whose party is the main opposition to a new Greek coalition government and has been a firebrand against austerity measures, is the most dangerous politician in Europe,...

ATHENS – Israeli President Simon Peres, in Greece for a visit aimed at developing closer relations, said he believes there are opportunities for more investment in the country, especially in tourism and technology and that Israeli business leaders would...

ATHENS – Even as authorities continue a sweep of illegal immigrants and planning to build detention centers to house them – and ready to deport some 200 Pakistanis – Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the country is...

Following a previous article in The Australian, new statements are furtherly reacting against thoughts of launching a local branch of the extreme right-wing “Golden Dawn” party. The Greek newspaper New World heading in Australia has come to add previous...

Israeli President Shimon Peres starts a three-day visit to Athens Monday on cooperation talks with Greece officials over matters of energy and defense. In what is the fifth visit by a top Israeli official to Greece in two years, Peres...

ATHENS – Looking to slash government spending everywhere it can to satisfy the demands of international lenders, the  coalition led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is mulling whether to force Greeks who were set to retire to work at...

ATHENS - Former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, being held on charges of money-laundering and theft from defense contracts, said he is ready to tell all about Greece’s culture of corruption and who else may be involved in robbing their...

ATHENS – The reassignment to regular duty of some 1,500 police officers who had been used as personal bodyguards by politicians and people deemed VIP’s by the government means a bigger presence of law enforcement in Greece’s capital, particularly...

Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the eurozone finance ministers group, will visit Greece on August 22, the office of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Friday. Greece has been bailed out twice by the European Union and International Monetary Fund, with...