Politics

The head of Greece's radical left party—throwing down a gauntlet that could increase tensions between Greece and its frustrated European creditors—said he sees little chance Europe will cut off funding to the country but that if it does, Athens...

Greek voters are returning to the establishment parties that negotiated its bailout, a poll showed on Thursday, offering potential salvation for European leaders who say a snap Greek election next month will decide whether it must quit the euro. The...

Greek nationalist group Golden Dawn has stirred up controversy and turmoil once again by publicly taking a rigid stance against the “sick and abnormal” homosexuals. Despite the international medical associations declaring homosexuality a personal and free choice of sexual behavior,...

Support for the Greek leftist Syriza party, which was the second-most popular party in elections earlier this month, has grown even more, a new poll showed Thursday, indicating that it would garner the most support in a fresh vote...

ATHENS - Greece’s interim Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikramenos has announced the caretaker government that will be in charge of Greece until June 17 elections, after a first ballot on May 6 failed to give any party a mandate and...

ATHENS – With the collapse of talks to form a coalition government in the wake of the May 6 stalemated elections that failed to give any party a mandate to rule, Greece has come under the temporary control of...

ATHENS – The office of Greek President Karolos Papoulias said Independent Greeks party leader Panos Kammenos had given the President a document offering to join a coalition government before talks broke down and was not telling the truth when...

France and Germany have promised “additional growth measures” to ensure Greece remains within the euro zone. On his inaugural visit to Berlin, French president François Hollande said he felt a “responsibility” to offer a “sign” of hope to Greek voters,...

The head of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised the possibility that Greece could leave the eurozone in an orderly fashion. "If the country's budgetary commitments are not honored, there are appropriate revisions to do, which means either supplementary...

After nine days of continuous failed attempts to form a new government in Greece, the President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias, has called for a new meeting among all political leaders to examine the possibility of forming a caretaker...

Greece's decision to return to the ballot box in the search for a government unleashed a hazardous new phase in Europe's debt crisis, with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble calling the vote a referendum on whether the country stays...

ATHENS - A last-ditch effort to set up a coalition government in the wake of stalemated May 6 elections and stave off a possible exit from the Eurozone has failed, setting up new elections next month - likely June...

Finance ministers of the euro zone made a show of closing ranks around Greece Monday, with Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker saying that no-one had argued for it to leave Europe΄s currency union at their monthly meeting, Dow Jones reported. "The...

Panos Kammenos, the head of the Independent Greeks party - which came fourth in the May 6 polls - denied on Tuesday that he had sent a proposal to the Greek president on Monday outlining his position on the...

ATHENS – Greece’s rising political leader of the left, 37-year-old Alexis Tsipras, whose refusal to back a coalition government in favor of more austerity measures, has taken his SYRIZA party into the lead for prospective new elections, a poll...