Syriza
Economy
Karatzaferis Blasts a "Rat," and LAOS Party Deserters
ATHENS – After seeing more of his members fleeing his sinking party, far Right-Wing LAOS leader George Karatzaferis accused one of them of being a “rat” and accused New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras of reneging on a pledge to...
Economy
Anti-Austerity Hollande Greets Pro-Austerity Venizelos, Not Tsipras
PARIS - French President Francois Hollande, the Socialist who rode an anti-austerity platform to victory and refused to talk with Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, has warmly welcomed PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos – who...
Greece
SYRIZA MP Voutsis' Referendum Proposal Shakes the Political World
SYRIZA member Nikos Voutsis spoke about a referendum in case of a failed attempt to renegotiate the memorandum from a possible SYRIZA government. That proposal frustrated many pro-memorandum party members who rushed to accuse him of bringing chaos to...
Economy
Reactions to Dora Bakoyiannis' Return to New Democracy
ATHENS – The former New Democracy minister, who was kicked out of the party for refusing to support austerity measures and formed her own political group that failed to win seats in the May 6 elections, has returned to...
Greece
Greek Coalition Talks Collapsed After 'Madhouse' Fighting
ATHENS – In a scenario that shows just how divided Greece is, political leaders who tried to form a coalition government in the wake of the May 6 stalemated elections were at each other’s throats in diatribe so vicious...
Economy
Samaras Challenges Tsipras: Let's Debate on TV
ATHENS – With their parties in a virtual deadlock for first place in the June 17 elections that could decide Greece’s fate, New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras has challenged Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) head Alexis Tsipras to...
Economy
The Red Scare: The Hammer and Sickle Flying Over Greece
ATHENS - From 1947-57 it was Sen. Joseph “Better Dead than Red,” McCarthy who put the fear of having no God into Americans with his political witch hunt trying to root out Communists – or suspected Communists – from...
Economy
Schaeuble: Greece 'Needs Austerity Programs'
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said cash-strapped Greece needed to implement EU and IMF-imposed austerity measures as European solidarity was "not a one-way street."
"To tell the Greeks that they need not apply austerity deals to which they have agreed...
Greece
Conservatives, Radical Leftists Even In Latest Polls
Greece's conservative New Democracy party and the radical leftist Syriza party are even in polls published in Sunday newspapers, with two polls showing New Democracy would garner the most support in a fresh vote mid-June and Syriza taking the...
Greece
NY Times: Alexis Tsipras Becomes the New 'Pied Piper of Hellas'
An extensive report by the New York Times compares SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras to the new “pied piper” coming to the rescue of Greece after the May 6 election outcome that ranked his party the second major political power...