PASOK

Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos, struggling to keep his party together in the wake of defections and waning support, lashed out at some of his former members on Dec. 14 and accused Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of following the...

The European Parliament has voted for a proposal put forth by a PASOK Socialist lawmaker, Anni Podimata, for a tax on currency exchanges and financial transactions she said would deter speculators. The so-called Tobin Tax is named for Nobel Prize...

A new tax scheme attached to a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan for 2013-14 aims squarely at the middle class despite Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ promise to insulate it from harsh new austerity measures. Samaras, the New...

A hated 100 percent property tax surcharge put into electric bills by former finance minister Evangelos Venizelos, now the head of the PASOK Socialists, will keep being collected, despite a court order ruling it’s illegal, Greek government officials said. Venizelos,...

While Greece awaits a first series of $56.7 billion in more rescue loans from international lenders and is trying to buy back its bonds at a big discount to reduce its debt, the leader of the major opposition party...

Two vehicles owned by former Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou, who is being investigated over claims made by a Greek newspaper that 12 military helicopters were acquired at an inflated price when he was in office, were targeted by handmade...

A Greek-Israeli businessman has joined former Prime Minister George Papandreou, and the former Premier’s mother, Margaret, in denying Greek media reports that she was linked to a list of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in accounts in a Swiss...

A bomb planted outside the office of the far-right Golden Dawn party outside Athens destroyed part of the building but no one was injured in the early morning blast on Dec. 4, police said. The explosion, caused by a home-made...

With his party sinking fast for unrelenting support for austerity measures that are antithetical to its founding principles, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos ejected former minister Andreas Loverdos for trying to start a new movement. Venizelos moved swiftly to boot...

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and his mother have denied reports in the Greek media that she's behind the name of a civil servant with 550 million euros ($714 million) in deposits in a Swiss bank, with the...