Antonis Samaras

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups in a landmark speech marking the 70th anniversary of the first deportations of Thessaloniki's Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Samaras spoke Sunday at a memorial ceremony at the...

A militant anarchist group, one of a number in Greece, has claimed responsibility for a bombing at a package shipping firm and is threatening further attacks on judges, police and prosecution witnesses in a terrorism trial. No one was...

Even as he continued to impose harsh pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions on Greek workers, pensioners and the poor on the orders of international lenders putting up bailout monies, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on March 15...

With Greece's privatization plans lagging - and set back again when the head of the agency overseeing it stepped aside in a burgeoning scandal involving the nation's electric company - the government is hoping that bids for its money-making...

Greece's international lenders have left Athens after talks failed to agree on instituting new reforms, but the government reportedly is preparing to fire more than 5,000 civil servants by the end of next year to keep critical rescue monies...

The roller coaster ride of opinion polls has put the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) back on top again, if only narrowly, by a margin of 29.5-to-28.5 percent over the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives. And...

Envoys from Greece's international lenders will leave Athens on March 14 after talks with the government failed to reach agreement on their demands for public sector layoffs and structural reforms. Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras insisted that there was progress and...

Greek police are investigating the bombing of the offices of three members of the ruling New Democracy Conservative party in Thessaloniki, the country’s second-largest city. The staffs were briefly caught in the fires that were created, authorities said. The attacks...

Just a couple of weeks after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara to try to settle differences over territorial waters and oil and gas exploration in the Aegean, the two countries are...

The former coach of the national football team of Greece, Otto Rehhagel, is going to visit Greece by the end of March, as a delegate of Chancellor Angela Merkel to contribute to efforts restoring the relations between the two countries...