Lucas Papademos

ATHENS – Former European Central Bank Vice-President Lucas Papademos has been sworn in as the country’s interim Prime Minister, charged with keeping international aid coming and holding together a coalition government that includes some bitter rivals, and far Right-Wing...

Armenian PM Tigran Sarkisian congratulated the newly appointed Greek PM Lucas Papademos on taking office in such a crucial period of the Greek and European history. According to the Armenian government press service, Mr. Sarkisian referred to the serious and...

The new interim government swears an oath on Friday noon, then the procedure of vote of confidence would launch. Consultations continued until late Thursday between the new Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and representatives of the three parties (PASOK, New Democracy,...

After a lengthy and at times comical process that put Greece’s feuding political parties on full display, global media shared a triumphant mood after Papadimos was officially named as Greece’s new PM. Surely, some of the international excitement surrounding the...

Lucas Papademos, a former deputy head of the European Central Bank, is a New Greek Prime Minister[...]

ATHENS - After three days of political feuding that angered Greeks worried whether it would jeopardize international rescue loans, a new coalition government was said to have been formed with Parliament Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos, a political unknown outside Greece,...

The candidacy of former European Central Bank Vice President Lucas Papademos to head a new interim Greek government is facing hurdles, a senior Pasok Party official said Monday. At issue, the source said, is a demand by Papademos that the...

ATHENS – With the political infighting over, Greece’s interim Prime Minister to head a coalition government to enable the country to keep getting critical international loans seems likely to be former European Central Bank (ECB) Vice-President Lucas Papademos. The...

ATHENS – Faced with defections by his Finance Minister, Cabinet official and Members of Parliament of his ruling PASOK Socialist party, Prime Minister George Papandreou has quickly withdrawn his plans[...]

Battered at home and throughout Europe, Greece deserves some respect for its efforts to overcome its economic crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou said, asking for European Union leaders to find a “definitive solution” when they meet in Brussels on...