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Stournaras Wants Luxembourg's Greek Depositors

Following revelations of Greeks with secret bank accounts in Switzerland and Lichtenstein that still haven't been checked for possible tax cheats, Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said he wants similar information from Luxembourg, whose Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, was...

International Media Say Greece TAP Winner

The signing of an agreement that will bring the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) through Greece, inked by Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras and Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Makis Papageorgiou, and by TAP’s Managing Director, Kjetil Tungland, brought...

Panel Out To Get Me Says Papaconstantinou

Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou refused to appear again before a Parliamentary committee investigating his handling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret deposits in Swiss bank accounts, saying it has already decided to indict...

Twin Win For Greece, TAP and COSCO

Still staggered by the withdrawal of one of his coalition partners but rebounding with a Cabinet reshuffle and an alliance with the PASOK Socialists, Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras had a good day on June...

Mitsotakis Wants More Firing Time

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' Cabinet shakeup to bring in PASOK Socialists as a reward for backing his closing of state broadcaster ERT means the government won't be able to meet deadlines set by international lenders to start firing more...

Greece's New Coalition Cabinet Sworn In

After three years of protests, strikes and riots against austerity measures and the New Democracy (ND) Conservative and PASOK Socialist parties for creating Greece's crushing economic crisis and imposing pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, a new cabinet...

The Samaras Shuffle Under Way

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and PASOK's Evangelos Venizelos were to meet on June 24 to discuss a shakeup in the Cabinet that will dump some of the Premier's ministers and replace them with Socialists to reward Venizelos for backing...

Troika Sees Greek Health Care Hole

Envoys from Greece's international lenders discussed with Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras on June 18 what they said were disturbing deficits in the funds of the health care provider EOPPY's insurance system, a shortfall of some 1 billion euros ($1.34...

Samaras, Troika Talk Taxes, Privatization

Still reeling from a decision by Greece's high court suspending his decision to take the national broadcaster ERT off the air, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was scheduled to talk with officials from the country's international lenders late on...

Greek Court Leaves ERT, Coalition In Limbo

After Greece's highest court effectively overturned his snap decision to shut down the country's national broadcaster ERT, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces more crisis talks with his coalition partners who said they saw the ruling as a vindication for...