New Democracy
Economy
As PASOK Fades, Venizelos Backs Austerity
With his party falling toward oblivion, PASOK Socialist leader is continuing to defend his support of austerity measures but, in an interview with Sunday’s Kathimerini, refused to say whether he would change his mind and allow some of his...
Greece
Poll Shows Golden Dawn Rising, PASOK Vanishing
The three parties in Greece’s uneasy coalition government are paying a high price for their unremitting support of more austerity measures, with polls showing the ruling New Democracy Conservatives have fallen behind the major opposition Coalition of the Radical...
Greece
Greece-Troika Budget Stalemate Continues
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will go to a European Union meeting on Oct. 18 empty-handed after his coalition partners refused to go along with changes to labor rules as part of a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax...
Economy
Kouvelis, Venizelos Reject Troika Demands
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ uneasy coalition government has started to come apart over demands by international lenders for even deeper austerity measures as his partners, the PASOK Socialists of Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left of Fotis Kouvelis, said...
Economy
PASOK Rebels Want Party to Quit Coalition
Seeing the party’s popularity plummet from 44 percent in 2009, when it won the Prime Minister’s office, to barely 10 percent now, dissenters within PASOK want the Socialist party to break away from the uneasy coalition government led by...
Greece
Don't Look to Tsipras for Greece's Salvation
Given the complete, total, abject, utter 40-year-long failure of the New Democracy Uber-Capitalists and PASOK Anti-Socialists who have put anyone with a pulse - and some without - on public payrolls in return for votes, drowning the country in...
Greece
Samaras Lets Golden Dawn Do His Dirty Work
After Greece’s stalemated elections in May where he suffered an ignominious showing, New Democracy Capitalist leader Antonis Samaras made a hard turn to the right when he saw that the deranged neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn were usurping his conservative...
Economy
Weary of Austerity, More Greeks Oppose Bailouts
Furious over repeated rounds of pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions that government leaders keep saying are necessary to keep international aid coming and prevent the country from being pushed out of the Eurozone, more Greeks are now...
Economy
Samaras Says Merkel Visit a Triumph
Ignoring protests by 50,000 people against the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to meet him in Athens on Oct. 9, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said it was proof Greece is being welcomed back into the international arena and...
Economy
In Athens, Merkel Sees Progress, But Protesters Don't
While protests raged a few blocks from where she was having quiet talks with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that she said showed progress in his attempt to impose more austerity measures to help right the economy, German Chancellor Angela...