Syriza
Greece
Dora Bakogiannis: Democratic Left Must Rejoin Government
Dora Bakogiannis, New Democracy’s MP in an interview she gave at Realfm 97.8 earlier today, stated that Democratic Left (DIMAR) must return to the Greek coalition government. She urged the Greek Prime Minister to take initiatives in order to...
Economy
Greece Says On Track For Surplus
While Greece is locked in tense negotiations with its international lenders over a looming budget gap of as much as 2.9 billion euros, Deputy Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said he still expects the country will record a primary surplus...
Greece
PASOK's Phone Cut Due to Unpaid Bills
PASOK’s members and employees, who work at the party’s political office in Charilaou Trikoupi street, encountered an unpleasant surprise on Monday morning.
Not having yet recovered from Theodora Tzakri’s decision to vote in favor of SYRIZA’S censure proposition, and her...
Economy
PASOK Rips Ousted MP For Easy Out
Former PASOK Socialist lawmaker Theodora Tzakri, who was immediately expelled from the party for supporting a measure to censure the ruling coalition government - which includes her party - was criticized by its officials who said she had previously...
Greece
Samaras Survives Censure Vote in Greek Parliament
As expected, as the government controls a bare majority of Parliament, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' Conservative-led coalition government won't have to face the prospect of new elections after lawmakers, by a margin of 153-124 voted against a motion...
Economy
Greek Cops Tussle With ERT Protesters
Riot police battled protesters and opposition lawmakers at the closed public broadcasting station ERT in Athens late on Nov. 9 as Parliament was debating a motion to censure the Conservative-led coalition government for sending in the police earlier in...
Economy
Greek MPs Squabble Over Censure Motion
A motion brought by the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) to reprimand the government for authorizing a police raid on former workers occupying the headquarters of the now-defunct state broadcaster ERT set off fierce debate...
Greece
SYRIZA Tries Censure Over ERT Raid
Greece's major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras filed a motion of censure on Nov. 7 in Parliament asking the members - a majority of whom are controlled by the government - to reprimand...
Crime
ERT Workers Caught Asleep By Police Raid
The order by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative party leader who convinced his coalition partner, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos to drop his objections to a Nov. 7 dawn riot police raid to oust former...
Economy
Bad Loans Swamping Greek Banks
As Greece struggles to right its economy and get the banking sector healthy, austerity measures have been so brutal that customers owe more than 65 billion euros ($87.66 billion) in loans, credit cards and mortgages they can't pay -...