New Democracy

With Greeks fleeing to their villages and vacations for August, the coalition government headed by New Democracy Conservative leader and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is gearing up for trouble when they return next month and expected protests against the...

With the Greek Parliament in summer session, and only 100 of 300 members needed to be present, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has quietly sent the body  a bill that would allow public sector reform to be imposed by presidential...

Greece's Finance Ministry has admitted what everybody in Greece already knew: the government has been playing favorites with VIP's and allowing them to dodge taxes, with inspectors checking with supervisors before deciding how to handle the case of people...

The investigation into the so-called Lagarde List of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC has reportedly found that at least 20 top government officials are hiding assets of as much as 3 million...

After three years of austerity measures that created a record 27.4 percent unemployment rate and put 1.3 million people out of work – all in the private sector – Greece’s fragile coalition government is turning its attention to reducing...

In another of the eternal Greek contradictions, a survey by Eurobarometer carried out for the European Commission has found that 90 percent of Greeks tend not to trust their government, but they would vote back in the same two...

With Greece's international lenders looking over his shoulder and pressing him to meet fiscal targets or face a cutoff in funding, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told key cabinet members in the two-party coalition to speed up structural reforms in...

Figures from the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat showed that Greece's public debt rose to 160.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of the year, an indicator that the economy is not getting better as...

As the battle of dueling polls continues to show the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) trading places as number one, the tiny Democratic...

Good news for Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras swinging the axe on public workers: some 60% of Greeks agree that the bloated public sector has to be cut, just as the government is readying plans for involuntary transfers and...