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Crime
Parliament Gets Case of Kaminis Attacker
A Member of Parliament from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party who officials said tried to punch Athens Mayor George Kaminis for stopping a Greeks-only food handout by the extremists will see his case forwarded to the Parliament, which will...
Economy
Greece With List of 400 London Buyers
With Greek prosecutors already scouring a list of 33 politicians to determine how they obtained their wealth, the government now is probing names on another list – this one of some 400 Greeks who’ve bought luxury homes in London,...
Economy
Political VIP Bodyguards Will Patrol Athens Instead
ATHENS – The reassignment to regular duty of some 1,500 police officers who had been used as personal bodyguards by politicians and people deemed VIP’s by the government means a bigger presence of law enforcement in Greece’s capital, particularly...
Economy
Profile of New Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras: Principled or Opportunist?
ATHENS – Antonis Samaras finally has the job he always wanted: Prime Minister of Greece, but may find he should have been careful about what he asked for because he’s going to get it-- from all directions. As he...
Economy
Samaras Says Tsipras Wants Greece Back to the Drachma
ATHENS – After the first week of a four-week campaign in which there was virtually no campaigning before the critical June 17 elections, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras came out swinging on May 26, accusing Coalition of the Radical...
Economy
Reactions to Dora Bakoyiannis' Return to New Democracy
ATHENS – The former New Democracy minister, who was kicked out of the party for refusing to support austerity measures and formed her own political group that failed to win seats in the May 6 elections, has returned to...
Economy
The Red Scare: The Hammer and Sickle Flying Over Greece
ATHENS - From 1947-57 it was Sen. Joseph “Better Dead than Red,” McCarthy who put the fear of having no God into Americans with his political witch hunt trying to root out Communists – or suspected Communists – from...
Economy
Political Wars Begin: New Democracy-SYRIZA Clash
ATHENS – Even as a new Parliament briefly met and dissolved, Greece’s political parties were taking shots at each other ahead of a second round of elections on June 17 that could decide whether the country stays in the...
Economy
SYRIZA Surges in Polls, Sun Setting on Golden Dawn
ATHENS – Greece’s rising political leader of the left, 37-year-old Alexis Tsipras, whose refusal to back a coalition government in favor of more austerity measures, has taken his SYRIZA party into the lead for prospective new elections, a poll...
Economy
Tsipras Strikes Out – Now it's Venizelos' Turn
ATHENS – After Alexis Tsipras, leader of the SYRIZA Radical Coalition of the Left, failed in his bid to create a coalition government in the wake of Greece’s May 6 elections which resulted in a mandate against austerity measures...