Kouvelis
Greece
Too Close to Call: Exit Polls Show No Winner Yet in Greek Elections
ATHENS - After a deadlocked May 6 election that failed to give any party enough votes to form a government in the midst of Greece's worst economic crisis since World War II, and six anguishing weeks in between with...
Economy
The Three Greek Election Scenarios: Lose, Lose, Lose
ATHENS – Greece’s critical June 17th elections have been framed as a euro vs. drachma dilemma, whether the country will stay in the Eurozone or be forced out and back to its ancient currency and into what most analysts...
Economy
Samaras, Venizelos See Another Election Deadlock
ATHENS – Predicting the June 17 elections – as did those on May 6 – would result in yet another stalemate with no party able to gain enough votes to form a government, the leaders of the once-ruling New...
Economy
PASOK, Democratic Left, Borrow Ideas from SYRIZA
ATHENS – With their parties out of the running to win the critical June 17 elections that could see Greece forced out of the Eurozone and back to the drachma, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left leader...
Economy
Dueling Last Polls Show SYRIZA, New Democracy Both in First
ATHENS – After trading places with the New Democracy Conservatives in the race to see who will win the critical June 17 elections that could determine whether Greece will leave the Eurozone and into what critics said would be...
Greece
Greek Coalition Talks Collapsed After 'Madhouse' Fighting
ATHENS – In a scenario that shows just how divided Greece is, political leaders who tried to form a coalition government in the wake of the May 6 stalemated elections were at each other’s throats in diatribe so vicious...
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
Pikramenos to Lead Soured Greeks Ahead of June 17 Elections
ATHENS – With the collapse of talks to form a coalition government in the wake of the May 6 stalemated elections that failed to give any party a mandate to rule, Greece has come under the temporary control of...
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
German Officials Gang Up on Greece: More Austerity or Else
ATHENS – Just as it appeared Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos might be able to form a shaky coalition government, another feud broke out between political leaders. German officials also said Greece would not get any more money from international...