Lucas Papademos

ATHENS – Greece may still be broke, but it’s not in technical default anymore. The ratings agency Standard & Poor’s raised the country’s credit grade to low-speculative on May 2, taking it out of default as expected, after Greece...

ATHENS – Hoping to capture a center ground as many of Greece’s political parties are shifting toward extreme positions in hopes of garnering more popular support for the May 6 general elections, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos told Greeks...

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...

ATHENS – Reaching out to Right-Wingers who are leaving his Conservative party ahead of the May 6 elections, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said he would get tough on crime, repeal laws giving citizenship to second generation immigrants born...

ATHENS – Since it’s apparent that new PASOK Anti-Socialist leader Evangelos “Mr. Tax Man,” Venizelos, the World Heavyweight Bombast Champion, is leading his party to defeat in the May 6 election, and as the leading New Democracy Capitalists are...

ATHENS – Bank of Greece Governor George Provopoulos has given another dire warning about the country’s economy, foreseeing that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will shrink 5 percent this year and urged whomever wins the May 6 elections to...

ATHENS – Still lagging in the polls as the May 6 elections approach, the PASOK Socialist party has recruited former Olympic and World Champion weightlifter Pyrros Dimas, who had vowed he would never be involved in politics, to head...

ATHENS – After imposing mandatory losses of up to 74 percent on its own banks, Greece is ready to give it all back through a plan to recapitalize them with $64.4 billion, a bailout paid for by the taxpayers....

ATHENS – PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos said he believes the May 6 elections will not give his party or their bitter rival opponents of the New Democracy Conservatives a mandate, and that the uncertainty is raising the possibility...

ATHENS – PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, whose party is floundering in the polls, said if elected Prime Minister in the May 6 elections he would push international lenders who have imposed austerity measures on Greece that he supported...