New Democracy

With Prime Minister Antonis Samaras touting Greece as a burgeoning "success story," and a recovery from a crushing economic crisis, a study for an investment fund has found the country needs a  20-billion euro ($26.27 billion) liquidity injection to...

New Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, whose appointment in a Cabinet shakeup raised eyebrows because of his extreme stances, got a hostile reception and a beatdown when he visited Attikon Hospital in Athens from staff angry he's going to be...

The first order of business for Greek banks who are getting 50 billion euros ($65.5 billion) in free money from the government in a recapitalization will be firing workers and closing branches. It is estimated that in the first phase...

With a slim majority of 153 votes in the 300-member Parliament, the coalition government of Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras and PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, shortly after midnight on July 18 got approval to...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' uneasy coalition government faces a challenge on July 17 when a reform bill with more than 100 items, including schemes that could lead to the firing of as many as 40,000 public workers goes...

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Athens on July 16 during a 24-hour general strike called by the country's two largest labor unions, ADEDY representing public workers and GSEE representing private workers. It came a day ahead of...

With the Greek government moving to recapitalize and stabilize banks, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told the heads of the four biggest financial institutions that they should start lending against to to help ease the shortage of liquidity and boost...

Former finance minister George Papaconstantinou will face a panel of judges on charges of tampering with a document and breach of duty after being indicted by the Greek Parliament in a secret ballot so lawmakers names wouldn't be revealed....

With expected tax revenues far off expectations because of the effect of austerity measures, Greek taxpayers are being pushed to come up with 7 billion euros ($9.13 billion) in tax payments due this year at the same time the...

Greek Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, the PASOK Socialist leader who was named to the key post by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, after reversing his opposition to the firing of public workers, had to...