Politics of Greece

Greece's coalition government may propose a non-political figure for president in March to seek consensus and avoid snap elections that could derail its economic progress, Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos told Reuters on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Tuesday for talks, which are expected to focus on Greece’s prospects for an exit from the memorandum and for debt relief, and whose outcome is likely to have a decisive impact on Greek financial and political developments.

The Greek Foreign Ministry on Monday issued a terse response following questions about a visit last week by the deputy speaker of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Antonio Milososki, to Mount Olympus, where he and other FYROM citizens unfurled flags bearing the Vergina Sun, a symbol widely used in ancient Greece and adopted for use by FYROM on its national flag despite Greek pr

SYRIZA has called on New Democracy to respond to a newspaper report that claimed the former cabinet secretary Panayiotis Baltakos advised Golden Dawn MPs on how they should vote.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will travel to Berlin on Tuesday, almost 10 months to the day since he was last in the German capital, for one of the most crucial meetings of his premiership as he seeks to find common ground with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Greece’s adjustment program and further debt relief.

A SYRIZA victory in an early general election would cause a bank run, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has warned according to reports.

Greek Parliament on Thursday voted in favor of amendments to the new unified property tax law, ENFIA, with 51 deputies approving the changes and 38 MPs opposing them.

Democratic Left (DIMAR) on Tuesday saw its presence in Parliament shrink to 10 after prominent MP Spyros Lykoudis quit, a move that boosted the number of independent MPs in the 300-seat House to 25.

Education Minister Andreas Loverdos (photo) on Tuesday announced the closure of Domi, a private college in Athens, due to pending debts to the Social Security Foundation (IKA) totaling some 20 million euros.

Government officials on Monday defended the decision by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to herald tax breaks at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) over the weekend as the first tangible move toward offering relief after years of austerity and indicated that the pledges could be supported by the budget.