New Democracy

Former Greek minister, one of the Oldest parliamentary politicians of the ND conservative party, and close advisor of former Greek PM Karamanlis, Giannis Kefalogiannis, died at the age of 79. Giannis Kefalogiannis was born in Crete and studied medicine in...

ATHENS – As former Prime Minister George Papandreou’s PASOK Socialists have fallen to new lows in surveys that show the party is in danger of being overtaken by the Democratic Left and even the Communists, he said he will...

ATHENS – As German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived in Greece on Jan. 15 for talks with political leaders of the debt-crushed and cash-starved country, with a message of support from European officials, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Greece...

Greece's opposition New Democracy party has widened its lead over the Socialist party, but wouldn't have enough votes to form a majority government on its own, a public opinion poll showed Sunday. According to the Kathimerini newspaper, New Democracy would...

ATHENS – Like his father Andreas 30 years before him, George Papandreou was the Prime Minister of Greece until being hounded out of office on Nov. 11, 2011 following 18 months of protests, riots and strikes, after he imposed...

ATHENS – Interim Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’ pledge that his coalition government will not hit weary Greeks with more austerity measures may fall by the wayside after a Finance Ministry report that showed the country’s deficit is not falling...

ATHENS – Unless you were rich, a business executive, a celebrity, or among the few privileged elite who run the country and for whom every year is a banner year of profiteering, 2011 was the worst year for most...

ATHENS – As Greece continues to bury its workers, pensioners and poor with waves of taxes to keep the country from going bankrupt, the two prosecutors in charge of going after tax cheats costing the country more than $60...

Conservative New Democracy party signalled on Friday it would drop its insistence on holding elections in February, a move that would give Prime Minister Lucas Papademos more time to pass reforms and secure a vital debt restructuring deal. Shortly afterward...

ATHENS – The building tension in Greece’s shaky coalition government boiled over in a Cabinet meeting, when PASOK Socialist Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos tangled with far Right-Wing LAOS Infrastructure Minister Makis Voridis over proposed changes in laws over the...