Antonis Samaras

ATHENS – A growing number of PASOK Socialist ministers and lawmakers are intensifying the pressure on their leader, former Prime Minister George Papandreou, to step aside quickly and let the party find a new leader ahead of snap elections...

Just as the European Union is experiencing the most serious economic crisis in its existence and with Greece on the verge of bankruptcy, the two major parties forming Greece's national salvation government are taking every opportunity to clash and...

ATHENS – Following remarks from New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras that elections tentatively scheduled for Feb. 19 will probably have to be rescheduled because a temporary coalition government won’t be able to finish the work of keeping international...

From the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times to Bloomberg, Reuters and Newsweek, global media are hungry to find details about the friendship of the two men that have basically caused the[...]

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Athens for a two-day visit during which he will meet Greece's political leadership. Biden was greeted at Athens International Airport by Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos. Biden will meet Monday with President Karolos...

The date of the early parliamentary elections in Greece, tentatively scheduled for February 2012, may be changed, a leader of the conservative New Democracy party said. The elections were tentatively scheduled for February 19, 2012. "If the voluntary 'haircut' is completed...

ATHENS – Interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, in a bid to keep together a fractious coalition and get other splinter parties to support a second bailout from international lenders and more austerity measures, said he will meet with Members...

One of the three "inalienable" conditions imposed by the New Democracy leader, Antonis Samaras, to support a national salvation government in Greece, was the date of early elections, which he had helped to ensure would be scheduled for February...

A letter sent to European Union officials by New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras pledging his[...]

The Greek Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos, has today praised the letter sent by the New Democracy leader, Antonis Samaras, to the President of the European Commission, José Barroso, the Eurogroup President, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the director general of the...