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Greece's Shrinking Economy Could Aid Anti-Austerity Parties

ATHENS – Despite more than two years of record cost-cutting, including slashes in salaries and pensions in addition to record tax hikes demanded by international lenders in return for $325 billion in two bailouts, Greece’s economy is continuing its...

Tsipras Makes His Case to World’s Top Economies

ATHENS – Amid growing outcries that he will isolate Greece economically and force it out of the Eurozone, back to the ancient drachma and certain ruin, Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras has told leaders of...

As Another Stalemate Looms, Will Greece Need a Third Election?

ATHENS – With the critical June 17th elections that could determine Greece’s Eurozone fate now on the horizon, the continuing feud between pro-and-anti-austerity forces could lead Greece into yet more political instability and yet another election if no party...

Tsipras and Samaras Debating Over the Debate Ends the Debate

ATHENS – After tossing barbs at each other from afar, through press releases and using go-betweens, it looks like a much-anticipated debate set for June 11 between Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy...

World’s Top Greek Economists Tell Greece: Keep the Euro

ATHENS – The pressure on anti-austerity parties ahead of the critical June 17 elections not to renege on Greece’s reform deals with international lenders is building, with 11 Greek economists from around the world joining critics sounding the alarm...

Survey Says! Germans Most Respected, Greeks Least Respected

ATHENS -  As Greeks prepare to commit political suicide at the June 17 elections – a bullet in the head courtesy of the New Democracy Capitalists - PASOK Anti-Socialists who created the economic crisis and favor more austerity, or...

Women's Summit Hears Ways Out of 'Scary' Crisis

ATHENS – Despite a crushing economic crisis, runaway debt, a deep recession with 21.7 percent unemployment, the closing of 1,000 stores a week, a labyrinthine bureaucracy, one of the highest levels of corruption and lowest levels of competitiveness in...

Last Greek Poll Shows New Democracy Ahead Of Syriza

New Democracy, Greece’s largest pro- bailout party, led the Syriza party, which is opposed to implementing the country’s international rescue program, according to a poll ahead of the June 17 elections. Of 1,200 people questioned by Metron Analysis for Athens...

Conservatives Promise Lower Taxes

Greece's conservatives on Thursday promised voters tax relief if they win a crucial general election, insisting that existing austerity measures can be made fairer, despite growing concern over the country's future in the euro. The debt-strapped country will hold its...

Dueling Last Polls Show SYRIZA, New Democracy Both in First

ATHENS – After trading places with the New Democracy Conservatives in the race to see who will win the critical June 17 elections that could determine whether Greece will leave the Eurozone and into what critics said would be...