Avramopoulos

After maintaining a curiously low profile while the uneasy coalition government led by New Democracy Conservative leader and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras readies another $14.16 billion in cuts demanded by international lenders – aimed squarely at workers, pensioners and...

ATHENS – Moments after his Cabinet, stocked heavily with members from his own New Democracy party, was sworn in, Greece’s new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras put them to work on dealing with the country’s crushing economic crisis, in preparation...

ATHENS – New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, whose party finished first in the critical June 17 elections but with less than 30 percent of the vote, was sworn in as Prime Minister on June 20 after convincing his rivals,...

ATHENS  - With its economy sinking at home, Greece is bailing out of the European Union’s anti-piracy campaign off the coast of Somalia to save money. Struggling with its worst budget crisis since World War II, Greece is going...

Greece’s new Defence Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos will visit Cyprus on Thursday, as agreed during a telephone conference on Saturday with his Cypriot counterpart Demetris Eliades. According to an official announcement released in Nicosia, Eliades telephoned Avramopoulos to congratulate him on...