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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...

Under fire from all sides, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said he would meet with lawmakers from the PASOK Socialists who are partners in the coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, to talk about...

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 arrest of the Greek former minister Michalis Liapis that took place after he was caught driving a luxurious car with fake plates was just the first of many scandals in which Liapis is involved. According to an article published...

As a corruption scandal in the Greek Defense Ministry has widened to implicate top military officials, the government said it would change the way contracts are let and awarded. Defense Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos said he's making the revision to “safeguard...

For more than four years, there has been an ongoing investigation over a loan and its distribution by Evrytania A.E. The loan’s guarantor was a former prefecture of Evrytania in central Greece. Head of the firm Evrytania A.E. was...

Even as Greece's government proclaims an economic recovery will begin this year, the world's biggest bond fund manager PIMCO said it doesn't see any chance the country will be able to return to the markets this year, dashing some...

Showing again just how fragile Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition is, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has challenged his partners, PASOK, to come up with another way to raise 40 million euros if they persist in their demand that the...

As if Greece didn't have enough trouble as Jan. 1 loomed - the seventh consecutive year of a deep recession - Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' uneasy coalition of his New Democracy Conservatives and the PASOK Socialists, who are clinging...