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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will visit the wealthy Gulf state of Qatar next week to discuss investment opportunities inside Greece, a Greek embassy spokesman in Doha said on Tuesday. According to Reuters, Samaras will meet with Qatar΄s emir and...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Oct. 30 that his administration has concluded negotiations with international lenders on a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan that would go to Parliament almost immediately, although one of his...

Greece will run out of money in mid-November and needs to receive a delayed $38.8 billion installment from its bailout package as soon as possible, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Oct. 19. “On the 16th of November the...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his two-year 11.5 billion euros of spending cuts contained unfair and painful decisions that were necessary to restore the country’s credibility and keep the country in the euro area. “The truth is Greece came...

The parliamentary head of Angela Merkel's party warned Sunday that crisis-wracked Greece had "no room for manoeuvre" ahead of talks this week between the German chancellor and the Greek prime minister. Volker Kauder, parliamentary group leader of Merkel's conservative bloc,...

The President of the European Commission Mr. Jose Manuel Barosso is coming to Athens in order to meet with the Greek Prime Minister Mr. Samaras. The goal of the forthcoming meeting will be the discussion of the economic situation in...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's government faced a confidence vote on Sunday capping three days of often heated debate over how the recession-wracked country can emerge from the crisis. "The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of...

A new Greek Government will be shaped by a New democracy (center right), PASOK (socialists), and DIM.AR (left) coalition, according to comments of the majority of Greek media. PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos and DIM.AR leader Fotis Kouvelis commented positively on...

There is a country where people no longer laugh and everyone is gloomy and miserable. This country’s Prime Minister is called Panagiotis Pikrammenos a.k.a "embittered" and reflects perfectly the feelings reigning in its citizens, wrote a Greek 19-year-old university...

Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos has said that the country’s place in the European Union must be defended. Against a backdrop of deep debt, cuts and unemployment, Papademos warned against europhobia as Greeks prepare to vote in next month’s election. “The...