Independent Greeks

A series of scandals, unresolved talks with the country's international lenders, and the escape of a terrorist seem to be taking their toll on Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition government and his New Democracy Conservatives, who have fallen 7.7...

Following reports that two Greek ex-ministers wrongly used European Union subsidies to build or renovate vacation homes, a nationwide probe has begun into how the monies were being used. Financial prosecutor Panayiotis Athanasiou has ordered a counterpart in the region...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, after meeting with his coalition partner, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos, has decided to withdraw a bitterly-criticized 25 euro hospital admission fee that could have undermined their coalition if it had gone to a...

Hoping to head off growing dissent in his shaky coalition, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will sit down on Jan. 6 with his partner, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos, to talk about how to deal with unhappiness over a...

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, who is a partner in the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative chief, is facing growing unrest in his party that he's working with his archrival as his...

The Economics Department of the University of Ioannina, Greece, carried out a poll of voting intentions during the next elections. The poll posed the question, "How would you vote if there were a general election held next Sunday?" SYRIZA received 14.5%...

Greece's political leaders remained about the crushing economic crisis critics said they helped create, showing substantial incomes even while the had to reach into their savings accounts, according to their declarations of wealth posted on the Parliament website to...

Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis, whose party is fast fading away, said he nonetheless will not bring it back into the fold of the coalition government in which he once served for Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative...

There's good news and bad news for Greece's major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA.) The bad news was the licking the party took when its motion for a vote of no-confidence in the government of...

The order by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative party leader who convinced his coalition partner, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos to drop his objections to a Nov. 7 dawn riot police raid to oust former...