Politics

A meeting of the Socialist International's committee on international economic issues will take place on the Saronic isle of Poros on Monday morning, under the chairmanship of Greek Prime Minister and Socialist International President George Papandreou. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph...

PASOK deputy Petros Efthimiou was elected new president of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Parliamentary Assembly. The Greek deputy received 130 votes compared against 66 of his Canadian rival. Alternate Foreign Minister D. Droutsas congratulated...

“Eleftherotypia” newspaper in its Saturday issue carries a weird 4-page proclamation concerning the attack that killed George Basilakis, 50yo top aide of Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Hrisohoidis. The organization does not reveal its name but says it will do...

Greece's presence in international fora remains unaffected by the economic crisis and the tough economic conjecture due to the international prestige enjoyed by Prime Minister George Papandreou, US ambassador to Greece Daniel Speckhard (photo) underlined on Friday. Speaking to reporters...

Whilst thousands of workers demonstrated peacefully outside the Parliament, all governmental members voted all the articles of the new Issuance bill. Minutes away from signing, the Minister of Labour, withdraw and changes two articles concerning arbitration, saying that agreement has...

Parliament debate on social security draft-bill has triggered a strong confrontation between the government and opposition parties. In his intervention, Employment Minister A. Loverdos launched an attack against both the ND and Left parties while he expressed optimism that...

New data related to personnel recruitment in “Agrogi SA” have come to light. The company’s chief advisor described recruiting procedures as “irregular and intransparent”. Agriculture Development Minister, in an interview with NET announced the merger of “Agrogi S.A” with...

The Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou, during the governmental meeting to discuss issues concerning the drugs and addictions, accused the oppositional party of ND by saying : "a sensitive state does its best to face the addictions", adding...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras pledged on Monday evening that his party would abolish a ruling PASOK law granting Greek nationality to immigrants and accused the government of introducing "dissolving phenomena in Greek society". ...

SYRIZA (Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology) party president Alexis Tsipras referred in Istanbul on Friday night to the ongoing economic crisis at the 6th Social European Forum. During his speech he mentioned that "the strategy that was being...

The Political Committee of the ND party elected Andreas Lykuretzos in the post of the party’s secretary. Mr. Lykourezos was the only candidate who received unanimous support. “We are ready to support the ideas and program of the ND...

Samaras appointed Dimitris Avramopoulos and Stavros Dimas as the party’s two vice presidents to support his bid to attract middle-class voters back to the party following its disastrous performance in last year’s general election. Samaras decision to appoint two vice...

Greece's two main umbrella unions said Thursday that they have called for another general 24 hour strike for Thursday, July 8 over proposed pension and labor reforms. It will be the sixth joint stoppage this year by Greece's main public...

Prime Minister George Papandreou, addressing a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, stressed that "the targets we had set in our programme are valid in full." Nevertheless, the conceded that some of the issues, such as those concerning salaries, are being temporarily...

The whole country and especially Athens, is strucked by strikes. Pireaus Port, faces numerous serious problems beacause of the PAME memebers, who make sailing difficult and even impossible.  In the morning, each and every ship managed to sail, however...