Politics

ATHENS – Negotiations to form a coalition government took a detour on June 18th after PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos told his New Democracy counterpart Antonis Samaras, whose party won the elections the day before, that he wanted voices...

ATHENS – New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras, who squeaked out a narrow win over the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) of anti-austerity champion Alexis Tsipras in the critical June 17 elections, met with Greek President Karolos Papoulias...

Over 20 parties participated in the June 17th elections, but one managed to attract no voters, or at least just one. Suffice it to say, that single vote may have been cast by the founding officer himself. The curious thing...

Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis said New Democracy, Pasok and Democratic Left are obligated to form a stable and effective coalition government, Skai TV reported, without saying where it got the information. Simitis, the former head of the socialist...

World stock markets were propelled higher on Monday morning on relief that pro-bailout parties in Greece had secured a narrow victory in the election re-run over the weekend. But there was concern that the rally would prove shortlived, amid continued...

International media are continuing the steady stream of media reports  about the recent Greek elections. Most Australian newspapers and TV channels stress that Europe is now "optimistic about Greece's future due to yesterday's voting results." According to Australian reporters, Samaras'...

Greek elections were crucial for the future course of world's economies. As a result, governments abroad kept  a keen eye on political developments of the country. Australia urged  Greece to form a new government quickly to restore confidence in its...

The pro-austerity New Democracy Conservatives won the critical June 17 elections, edging out the anti-austerity Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) but without enough of the vote to form a majority government, thus necessitating a coalition. As central banks stood...

Leaders of the world's largest economies began to assemble Sunday in a Baja California desert resort just as Greece's pro-bailout New Democracy party won the national elections, a vote for the financial status quo that could keep panic under...

Police say about 10 men armed with sledgehammers and wooden bats have attacked a polling station during Greece's election, wounding two policemen guarding it and setting fire to the ballot box.  No voters were hurt during the attack Sunday,...

On the evening of a Greek election crucial to the future of the euro, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle joined other German politicians in a pledge to help Greece on Sunday, but warned that the new government must stick...

ATHENS –In a political thriller that was too close to call after the initial exit polls, the pro-austerity New Democracy Conservatives were projected to win the critical June 17 elections, edging out the anti-austerity Coalition of the Radical Left...

ATHENS - After a deadlocked May 6 election that failed to give any party enough votes to form a government in the midst of Greece's worst economic crisis since World War II, and six anguishing weeks in between with...

Ballots have opened nationwide in Greece for a critical general election that will determine whether the debt-laden country will complete painful austerity reform or see its eurozone future jeopardized. Some 9.8 million Greeks began voting at 7am local time on...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she hopes Greeks will elect a new government that stands by the country’s promises to international creditors in this weekend’s election. Greeks vote Sunday amid fears the country could be forced out of the euro...