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Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and PASOK's Evangelos Venizelos were to meet on June 24 to discuss a shakeup in the Cabinet that will dump some of the Premier's ministers and replace them with Socialists to reward Venizelos for backing...

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, who withdrew his opposition to the closure of ERT, will see a number of his party's officials named ministers by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras who is planning to shake up his Cabinet in...

With envoys from international lenders in Athens to check the country's books and the pace of reforms, the Greek government is going to ask again for permission to lower the 23 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) in restaurants. The Troika...

What a difference a year makes, especially for Greece. That's how the financial magazine The Economist has characterized the country's slow recovery, although with caution that it came at a heavy social price in joblessness and human misery. Greece has...

Despite repeated denials from Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that he is not going to make changes in his Cabinet, there will be a reshuffling and replacement of some ministers in July, one of his coalition partners, Democratic Left (DIMAR)...

Rushing to beat the clock before stopping work for the May 5 Easter holiday, lawmakers in the Greek Parliament have received from Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition government a multi-faceted bill of so-called "prior actions" demanded by international lenders...

After much resistance, and insistence it could reduce the public workforce through retirements and firing problem workers, Greece has agreed to shed 15,000 positions through next year, including 2,000 who will be axed after the Easter holiday. Prime Minister Antonis...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' planned appointment of six new deputy ministers has sparked renewed speculation he's planning a shakeup of his Cabinet, which he has repeatedly denied, and ired his coalition partners who said they weren't informed. The newspaper...

After weeks of arduous negotiations over long-delayed reforms, Greece and its international lenders neared agreement on most major issues, although it's still uncertain how the government will reduce the workforce. The Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras took over talks with international lenders on April 7 after his Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras fired back at them over continued demands for austerity measures, including the firing of 25,000 workers and said if...