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Samaras Says Economy On Road Back

Presenting a unified front with his PASOK Socialist partner Evangelos Venizelos at a project resuming work on a major highway, Greek Prime Minsiter Antonis Samaras said the country’s battered economy is already recovering, despite evidence it is not. During a...

Greece Readies Firing Of 15,000 Workers

After much resistance, and insistence it could reduce the public workforce through retirements and firing problem workers, Greece has agreed to shed 15,000 positions through next year, including 2,000 who will be axed after the Easter holiday. Prime Minister Antonis...

Samaras Coaxes Partners On Multi-Bill

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, met with his coalition partners on April 23 in a bid to convince them to support a multi-faceted bill of reforms that the country's international lenders are insisting be passed...

Greek Banks Immune For Political Loans

Greek financial prosecutors are preparing to send the findings of their investigations into party funding to the Parliament controlled by the parties who got the loans they haven't repaid even though recently-passed laws giving immunity to bank officials for...

Samaras' Partners Ired Over New Ministers

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' planned appointment of six new deputy ministers has sparked renewed speculation he's planning a shakeup of his Cabinet, which he has repeatedly denied, and ired his coalition partners who said they weren't informed. The newspaper...

Greece Closes In On Troika Deal

After weeks of arduous negotiations over long-delayed reforms, Greece and its international lenders neared agreement on most major issues, although it's still uncertain how the government will reduce the workforce. The Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank...

SYRIZA Leads in Latest Polls

The company Metrisi has conducted a poll for the newspaper Parapolitika. The poll shows that the Greek political parties SYRIZA and New Democracy are neck and neck in voting intentions, with SYRIZA preceding by 0.4 percent. According to the polling...

Greek Jobless Rate A Record 27.2%

Only days after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said that for the first time since austerity measures were imposed three years ago that more people were being hired than fired, the country’s statistics agency ELSTAT said unemployment hit another...

Tsipras Says Samaras Surrendered To Troika

Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras said that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition government's constant relenting to demands from international lenders is proof that the country needs new leadership and accused the New Democracy Conservative leader...

Troika Agrees Replacing Problem Workers

Greece's international lenders have reportedly agreed to allow the government to hire 1,000 new public workers - if it fires 1,000 problem workers found to have violated their oaths or faced disciplinary action for a range of issues such...