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The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the government Vice President Evangelos Venizelos met on Saturday and agreed to change the method of voting from the current proportional electoral system that has been in place since 1981, to voting directly for the individual candidate. Aside from changing the method of election from a party list, as […]

The Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis met with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Evangelos Venizelos this morning in Athens. After the meeting concluded, Mr. Samaras stated that the Cypriot dispute is a “top priority” for the Greek government and spoke of the need for a broad national consensus. The three politicians […]

The comments of Theodoros Karypidis, whose candidacy in the upcoming local government elections has gained SYRIZA support, prompted the American Jewish Committee to lash out against the Greek opposition party with allegations of anti-Semitism. The Greek opposition party responded to the AJC expressing its surprise at the allegations of political extremism and entrenched anti-Semitic views, […]

After yesterday’s government meeting in Athens with a number of Ministers, their general secretaries and the Chief of Staff, the Minister of Interior Yannis Michelakis announced a number of government initiatives for the earthquake victims in Kefalonia. Cutting red tap and expediting procedures in issuing grants for the restoration of buildings 500 euro rent subsidies, […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has called a government meeting for Wednesday afternoon in order to discuss the efforts to address the disaster in Kefalonia so far and to coordinate future actions. The Ministers of National Defense Avramopoulos, Education Arvanitopoulos, Finances Stournaras, Interior Michelakis, Infrastructure Chrysochoidis, Public Order Dendias, Health Georgiadis, Shipping Varvitsiotis, Culture Panagiotopoulos […]

The 10am meeting between the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos ended around noon, with the government Vice President commenting that “we have achieved huge accomplishments, which must lead to the recognition of the Greek people’s sacrifices and to a permanent exit from the situation the country is in”. The Prime Minister and the […]

The Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State Victoria Nuland is expected in Athens n Sunday, where she is rumored to meet with the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Evangelos Venizelos. Mrs. Nuland recently discussed a series of bilateral matters with […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is scheduled to meet with the families and representatives of the three officers who lost their lives during the military crisis that took place at the Imia islet eighteen years ago. During the 1996 military crisis between Greece and Turkey over the Aegean islet, a Greek Navy helicopter crashed over […]

The Minister of Finances Yannis Stournaras met with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras late on Thursday evening in order to discuss the upcoming arrival of the troika and the ongoing negotiations. According to Mr. Stournaras “the troika will arrive in the next few days. We are in touch with them. the goal is to finish up, […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras appeared at New Democracy’s Parliamentary Group meeting, where he announced that the primary surplus will return to the Greek people and took the opportunity to attack the opposition. Mr. Samaras explained that “the primary surplus came about a year earlier. We were ridiculed when we spoke of it in early […]

A New Democracy poster circulating on social networks regarding the return of bribe money to the Greek state has been heavily criticized by Samaras’ coalition government partners PASOK. The poster boldly claims that “By order of the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras 17,700,000 euros from bribes are returning to the Greek people”. PASOK’s communication’s officer Dimitris […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced the government’s ambitious plans to invest 1.5 billion euros is various programs intended to tackle the unemployment problem in Greece, by creating 440,000 job opportunities in the next two years. Mr. Samaras asserted that halting the rate of unemployment after six years of recession was the first step in […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras decided to visit and spend the night on the island of Kefalonia on his way back from Brussels, in order to survey the damages caused by the powerful earthquake. Meanwhile seismologists have reported that three days after what appears to have been the main earthquake, the aftershocks are still rather […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday in Brussels and discussed a number of bilateral issues, such as natural gas, privatizations and tourism. Mr. Samaras highlighted the bonds that bring the Greek and Russian people together, namely tradition and religion and welcomed the developing relationship between Russia and Europe. Regarding […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras spoke at Business Europe event in Brussels on the importance of industry and stressed the determination of the Greek government in carrying out bold reforms which put the emphasis on the country’s exports, in an effort to attract foreign investment. Mr. Samaras highlighted his government’s efforts on a fiscal and […]

One of the Greek government’s prerogatives during the six-month period that it will preside over the EU is to improve the country’s international credibility, in an effort to attract investments and growth initiatives. To that end, Prime Minister Samaras has scheduled to meet with Russian President Putin in Brussels on Tuesday and American President Obama […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has arranged to meet with the Government Vice President Evangelos Venizelos on Friday, in order to discuss a number of pressing matters. As announced, at the top of the agenda will be the progress of the critical negotiations with the IMF, EU and ECB representatives, as well as the structural […]

Amidst the recent dramatic developments in terrorism, financial scandals the subsequent conflicts with opposition leaders SYRIZA, the coalition government parties will now have to agree on a number of controversial structural reforms that will undoubtedly cause further tension. The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has prioritized the arrest of Christodoulos Xiros, as he feels that the […]

The acting President of Egypt Adly Mahmoud Mansour, along with his Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, is scheduled to visit Greece for 24 hours, on the occasion of Greece assuming the EU presidency for the first six months of 2014. During his brief stay in Athens, Mr. Mansour will have the opportunity to meet […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras addressed the European Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg today and stressed that Greece has kept its promises and “delivered”, while avoiding a default with the help of Europe. Mr. Samaras, who was accompanied by his consultants Chrysanthos Lazaridis and Stavros Papastavrou, maintained in his speech that Greece suffered due to three […]