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With Greece's international lenders looking over his shoulder and pressing him to meet fiscal targets or face a cutoff in funding, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told key cabinet members in the two-party coalition to speed up structural reforms in...

The first order of business for Greek banks who are getting 50 billion euros ($65.5 billion) in free money from the government in a recapitalization will be firing workers and closing branches. It is estimated that in the first phase...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble met in Athens with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras for only 40 minutes - 10 minutes longer than scheduled - on July 18 although the city center was shut down all day and all...

With a slim majority of 153 votes in the 300-member Parliament, the coalition government of Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras and PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, shortly after midnight on July 18 got approval to...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' uneasy coalition government faces a challenge on July 17 when a reform bill with more than 100 items, including schemes that could lead to the firing of as many as 40,000 public workers goes...

Former finance minister George Papaconstantinou will face a panel of judges on charges of tampering with a document and breach of duty after being indicted by the Greek Parliament in a secret ballot so lawmakers names wouldn't be revealed....

With expected tax revenues far off expectations because of the effect of austerity measures, Greek taxpayers are being pushed to come up with 7 billion euros ($9.13 billion) in tax payments due this year at the same time the...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, a hardliner who insists Greece stick to harsh austerity measures in return for bailouts - much of them funded by his country - will be in Athens on July 18 and is to...

Continuing a trend in recent polls, the ruling New Democracy (ND) party is maintaining a 1 percent point lead over its major opposition rival the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA,) a virtual dead heat given the margin of...

Greece will not change unless it takes on populism and extremism, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a meeting of his New Democracy party political committee. “You cannot change a country if you do not fight and win the battle of...