New Democracy
Crime
Greece Probes Boat Sinking Abuse Charges
Merchant Marine Minister Militadis Varvitsiotis has denied accusations by migrants who survived the capsizing of a boat full of immigrants that it was being dragged back to Turkey at full speed, not to safety, and that Coast Guard officials...
Greece
Independent Greeks MP's Immunity Lifted
Greece’s Parliament decided on Wednesday January 22, to lift the immunity of the Independent Greek MPVassilis Kapernaros, but not of the deputies Miltiadis Varvitsiotis and Argyris Dinopoulos.
According to Christos Markogiannakis, who presided at the voting, about 230 deputies took...
Economy
New Opinion Poll Gives SYRIZA Clear Lead
A Pulse RC opinion poll carried out on behalf of the newspaper “TO PONTIKI,” is set to be published tomorrow and gives SYRIZA a clear 3 percent lead over New Democracy. The opinion poll depicts the intention of the Greek voters for...
Economy
Confused Greeks Favor SYRIZA, Coalition
On the heels of an earlier poll this month that showed the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) taking a big lead in Athens and Attica over the ruling New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras,...
Crime
Bad Loans Overwhelm Greek Banks
Crushed by big pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and austerity measures that have created record unemployment, deep poverty and a harsh recession, so many people can't pay what they owe that Greek banks expect bad loans will hit...
Economy
Samaras Blasts PASOK For Bailout
In an indirect slap at his coalition partner, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative chief Antonis Samaras said a first bailout of $152 billion that the Socialists got from international lenders in 2010 that came...
Crime
Xeros Vows To Kill Political Leaders
Convicted November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros, who walked away from a furlough he was given despite serving six life sentence for six assassinations warned in a video he posted that he's gunning for political leaders from the ruling New...
Economy
ERT Reshaper Kapsis Will Quit
Greece 's Deputy Culture Minister Pantelis Kapsis, who was brought on board to direct replacement of the closed former national broadcaster ERT with a new station in the face in withering criticism, said he will leave the government in...
Greece
Samaras Moves To Thwart SYRIZA
Moving to head off the major Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) before it can block selection of Greece's next President in a bid to force new elections, Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative party head Antonis Samaras reportedly...
Economy
Stournaras Says Troika Delay No Problem
The ever-optimistic Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said a delay in the return of envoys of international lenders to resume negotiations over long-delayed reforms and how to close a budget hole in the 2014 budget of as much as...