Panos Skourletis
Greece
Samaras Rejects Tsipras TV Debate Challenge
Greece 's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was accused of being afraid to face major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras after the New Democracy Conservative leader said he wouldn't take the challenge for a r a...
Greece
SYRIZA Dumps Gypsy Activist For Muslim
Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party has suddenly and without explanation yanked a Roma leader in Thrace from its list of candidates for the European Parliament who had resisted growing Turkish influence in the region...
Crime
Prosecutor Probes Baltakos Affair Video, Samaras Plans Strategy
An Athens prosecutor is set to investigate a secret videotape in which a former top aide to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is heard telling the spokesman for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that the government trumped up charges against...
Greece
European Parliament Vice President Postpones Visit to Athens
European Parliament vice president Othmar Karas has postponed a visit to Athens, Greece, originally scheduled for January 8-9, according to an announcement by the European Parliament. The chairman of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Policy Committee had led...
Economy
Farmers vs. Homeowners On Property Tax
Just a day after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader and his coalition partner and Deputy Premier, PASOK chief Evangelos Venizelos said they would make changes to an onerous property tax bill that was causing...
Economy
Papadimoulis: Glezos Criticism Will Drive Us Forward
Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) parliamentary representative Dimitris Papadimoulis, when asked to comment to Manolis Glezos recent statement, that the major opposition party is not capable of convincing Greek voters, he expressed his respect towards the WWII hero,...
Greece
SYRIZA Sacks MP For Backing Turkey
The major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party has removed one of its representative from the Parliament's Human Rights Committee after he said the Greek island of Imia belongs to Turkey and that Greece should cede its...