By John O’Donnell and Jan Strupczewski FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The European Central Bank abruptly canceled its acceptance of Greek bonds in return for funding on Wednesday, shifting the…
ATHENS — A guerrilla organization known for targeting political and foreign diplomatic sites in Greece has claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the Israeli Embassy in December, a Greek…
ROME — Less than two weeks after taking power in national elections, Greece’s leftist-led government now is taking Europe. Fashion critics in London are debating whether the Greek finance minister…
Greece wants a break from the terms of its eurozone bailout loans, saying they’re suffocating its economy. Germany, the biggest backer of two bailouts worth 240 billion euros (currently $271…
PARIS — French officials said Sunday they would support the new Greek government’s efforts to get the country back on its feet after five years of crushing austerity, but warned…
It was not the E.C.B.’s job to “fund the gap of any bank runs,” Mr. Weidmann told the central bank’s governing council, according to confidential minutes of the meeting, citing…
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we speak with economist Edward Hadas about the significance of Syriza’s…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has underlined the refusal of Greece’s European creditors to consider forgiving part of the debt-ridden country’s rescue loans, though she stressed in an interview published Saturday…
By Lefteris Papadimas and Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Greece’s new leftist government opened talks on its bailout with European partners on Friday by flatly refusing to extend…
Yanis Varoufakis, a self-described “erratic Marxist,” is the new finance minister of Greece under the just-elected Syriza-led government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. In the coming weeks, Varoufakis will be…
Greece’s creditors point to signs of recoverythe country is growing again after six years of recession, and the public finances have been stabilized. But in a sign of the difficult…
WASHINGTON –- Greece gave us democracy and theater, and now is giving us a gripping new synthesis of the two: the dramatic, hysterical alarms of supporters of austerity. Facing slow…
BRUSSELS — Gathering in Brussels, European foreign ministers scrambled on Thursday to hold a united front against Russia over Ukraine, calming worries that the election of a far-left government in…
The two countries have established trade ties. Almost 13% of Greek imports came from Russia in 2013, according to the IMF. Greece’s share of Russian imports is much less significant….
ATHENS — Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece told his new cabinet on Wednesday that he would move swiftly to negotiate debt relief with Greece’s creditors, but would not engage…
Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has lined up a formidable coterie of academics, human rights advocates, mavericks and visionaries to participate in Europe’s first anti-austerity government. Displaying few signs of…
ATHENS — The leftist-led coalition that won Greece’s elections unveiled its government on Tuesday, with the crucial post of finance minister going to an economist who has called the eurozone’s…
BRUSSELS — The Greek election not only strengthened opponents of austerity, it also highlighted a fundamental tension at the heart of Europe’s six-decade-long push to forge a closer union of…
ATHENS — Now comes the hard task of making good on a key campaign promise. As Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as prime minister of Greece on Monday, the emotional…
Alexandre Afonso is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at King’s College London. His work analyzes austerity reforms in southern Europe. The views expressed in this commentary are solely his. As…
ATHENS — Alexis Tsipras, the leftist political maverick who swept to power on Sunday in Greece in a popular rebellion, formed a new coalition government on Monday with a right-wing…
ATHENS — Alexis Tsipras, the leftist political maverick who swept to power on Sunday in Greece in a popular rebellion, entered talks on Monday morning to form a coalition government…
Greece has become an unwitting crossroadsboth for jihadists trying to reach Iraq and Syria from Europe, and for fighters returning home from the Middle East. Greece’s long land and maritime…
But for many on the streets of Athens it’s his words that matterhis promise of “No more bailouts, no more submission, no more blackmailing.” It’s a message of hope that…
ATHENS, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Greeks vote on Sunday in a historic election expected to bring in a government led by the leftwing Syriza party, which has promised to take…
GLYFADA, Greece — Katerina Georgiou, 64, who used to own a private school, says that she will probably act out of fear when she decides who to vote for in…
These days, most polls are centered on the intent to vote and the popularity of political leaders. We at The Huffington Post Greece understand the people’s need to know these…
Greece will vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday, nearly one month after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was forced to call a snap vote after parliament failed to agree on a…
December 23, 2011 – After a series of credit downgrades and exposure to the financial crisis in Greece, Cyprus signs an agreement with Russia for an emergency loan worth €2.5…
Few European Union politicians will have raised a New Year glass in expectation of a brighter future. Many fear that 2015 could be the year in which both the euro…