Politics

Labour Minister Andreas Loverdos on Friday briefed President Karolos Papoulias on the changes to labour law agreed between the government and representatives of the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission and on other issues that fall under the...

With a National Council for the Greek Language and a General Secretariat under its authority, at the Ministry of Education which will be taking over the overall coordination for all issues regarding the support and upgrade of the Greek...

Debt-ridden Greece is on track with the reforms required as part of the rescue package that saved it from bankruptcy, a delegation from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and the European Commission said Thursday. The delegation was in...

Prime minister George Papandreou met on Thursday in Brussels with his FYROM counterpart Nikola Gruevski on Thursday in Brussels, where the Greek premier is attending an EU summit and the latter is holding contacts with the European People's Party...

Chief Prosecutor I. Sakelakos has issued order to ban exit from the country of businessman George Tsougranis, former Transport Minister Tasos Mantelis best-man. The sum of 450.000 marcs- with final recipient Tasos Mantelis- had been deposited in his bank...

Chinese vice Premier Zhang Dejiang –accompanied by members of the Ministers' Council- paying an official visit to Athens to promote economic relations between the two countries. He was received by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias at...

The Parliamentary examination committee investigating the Siemens kickbacks scandal has asked that it be allowed to continue its investigation until September 30, by unanimous decision of its members. The request has been initially agreed to by Parliament President Philippos...

Greece and FYROM are close to an agreement on the name “Republic of Macedonia of Vardar” under the pressing intervention of the US and the EU. This name covers the Greek request with regards to the geographical designation, whist it is...

MP Costas Kiltidis, elected to parliament on the main opposition New Democracy (ND) ticket, on Monday announced his withdrawal from the ND parliamentary group and his intention to become an independent MP. Kiltidis, a former deputy agricultural development minister, announced...

Greece is to face the first crucial test after the signing of the memorandum as EU, EUC and IMF fiscal experts arrive in Athens today. The Troika will audit the numbers ( revenues, state expenditures) and visit Ministries to...

This week is expected to be highly interesting regarding the Siemens scandal as the Inquiry Committee will look into the Hellenic Railways Company (HRC) file. Konstantinos Yiannakos, HRC chief advisor during the terms in office of Hristos Berelis and...

Two opinion polls appearing in an equal number of newspapers on Sunday indicated that Greek citizens rate the country's governments as falling below par. According to a Public Issue opinion poll appearing in the Sunday edition...

Dimitris Bitsas (photo) was re-elected secretary of SYN party Central Political Committee with 85 votes in favour and 40 blank as well as 19 members of the new Political Secretariat. The Left Unity won 10 seats, the Left Wave...

The Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE) President and CEO Panagis Vourloumis and another OTE executive were referred to a three-judge appellate felony court on Friday on breach of faith charges stemming from alleged over-charging on contracts signed by the telephony...

Finance minister George Papaconstantinou said on Friday that the second and third tranches of the EU-IMF support mechanism loans for the Greek economy are ensured. Speaking in parliament in reply to a current question tabled by Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS)...