George Papandreou
Greece
PASOK Calls Grow For Venizelos' Head
PASOK MP Thanos Moraitis, joining a chorus of dissent against party leader Evangelos Venizelos, has become the first to call for the Socialist chief to step down as its popularity keeps plummeting.
Moraitis was the first in the party to...
Economy
PASOK MP Questions Venizelos' Strategy
With the once-might PASOK still floundering, one of its lawmakers said the Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos' strategy of siding with Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras hasn't worked and he wants a new direction for the party.
MP...
Greece
Papandreou: PASOK-SYRIZA Cooperation is Possible
The former Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou was invited by the Hertie School of Governance to participate in a conference on administrative management in Europe and also gave an interview to the German Deutsche Welle.
Papandreou expressed his concern about the rise of far-right...
Economy
Schauble: Greeks Had Drawn Up 'Grexit' Plan
Disclosures surrounding the story behind the eurozone crisis and the Cannes G20 summit meetings between EU leaders and former Greek prime minister George Papandreou, as revealed recently in London's Financial Times, seem never to end.
With crucial European Parliament elections due in...
Economy
New Democracy Downplays Attica Election Setback
The ruling New Democracy Conservatives, stung from a poor showing in Athens and the Attica region in the May 18 first round of Greek municipal elections, said the party was doing better across the country and would rally in...
Economy
IMF's Strauss-Kahn Gives Further Insight in Eurozone Crisis
New facts have emerged about the European sovereign debt crisis and Greece’s recourse to the European stability mechanism in 2010, as former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn revealed Friday on French TV channel France 2 that former Greek...
Economy
Juncker Says Tsipras Unfit To Lead Greece, EU
Former Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker, a candidate for European Commission President, said after a debate with rivals for the post that Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras wasn't fit to lead his country...
Economy
PASOK's Dim Elections Hopes Threaten Greek Government's Survival
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hopes of continuing his administration to the 2016 elections could depend not on the showing of his New Democracy Conservatives in this month's elections for Greek municipalities and the European Parliament, but of his coalition...
Economy
FT Unfolds Story Behind Eurozone Crisis, Merkel in Tears
In a series of stories, London's Financial Times unfolds the proceedings following the former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's decision to call a national referendum in 2011 on the bailout package imposed on Greece by the EU and the IMF,...
Economy
Venizelos Faces PASOK Leadership Fight
After leading PASOK to the brink of extinction, party leader Evangelos Venizelos said there are dissidents who want the Socialists to fare badly in this month's elections for Greek municipalities and the European Parliament so they can try to...