Antonis Samaras

While Greek government officials insisted that a one-day delay in talks between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and envoys of international lenders was due to undisclosed technical matters, other media reports said the negotiations on the release of a 2.8...

With international lenders pressing for Greece to speed the pace of privatizations, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met with the head of Russia's Gazprom, Alexei Miller, on March 12 to discuss the planned sale of Greece's national gas distributor DEPA,...

The relatives of former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, whose names were deleted from a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC that hasn't been checked for tax evasion have...

In a transparent shot at the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party accused by critics of leading assaults on immigrants, Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias told cadets at the police academy that the government will not tolerate racism and assaults. At...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said that the austerity measures he's imposed on the orders of international  lenders have done all they can and that he wants a flat corporate tax rate of 15 percent in order to bolster investment...

After meeting new Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades in Athens, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has called on the European Union to support Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) that would protect the two countries interest in oil and gas exploration in...

New Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades of Cyprus, during a vist to Athens on March 11, will reportedly ask Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to fork over 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) from its bank recapitalization funds to help pay...

Awaiting a 10 billion euros ($13 billion) rescue package from international lenders, new Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades was in Athens on March 31 looking for another two billion euros ($2.6 billion) in aid despite Greece's crushing economic crisis where...

Reports in the Turkish media that Greece closed down two Kurdish terrorist camps near Athens following talks in Ankara between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan are baseless, the Greek government said. “The Turkish newspapers’ claims...

As he awaits trial on more serious charges of money-laundering and embezzling as much as one billion euros ($1.3 billion) from contracts he awarded, former Greek defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos said that his eight-year jail sentence for failing to...