Greek PM rules out snap polls after foreign minister quits
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ruled out a snap election on Friday following the resignation of his foreign minister, saying his administration still had backing...
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
Greek lawmakers pass painful reforms to attain fiscal targets
By George Georgiopoulos and Renee Maltezou Greek lawmakers on Monday passed a package of unpopular pension and tax reforms that the country’s leftist-led government hopes...
Greek police fire teargas as tempers flare over pensions (Updated)
By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas Scuffles broke out and police used teargas during a mass rally in Athens on Thursday as Greeks railed against...
Striking Greeks take to streets as dissent rumbles over austerity (Updated)
By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Karagiannopoulos Striking Greeks took to the streets on Thursday to protest austerity measures, setting Alexis Tsipras’ government its biggest domestic...
Greece’s Syriza projects election confidence despite split (Updated)
By George Georgiopoulos and Renee Maltezou Greece’s radical left Syriza party can win re-election with an outright majority, a senior member said on Tuesday, and...
Greece made the wrong choice
By John Lloyd Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has, as Macbeth put it, “strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage”. But he will...
Europe moves to restore funding to Greece after bailout vote (Update 3)
By Lefteris Karagiannopoulos and George Georgiopoulos Europe moved to re-open funding to Greece’s stricken economy on Thursday, hours after a fractious Greek parliament approved a...
France’s Hollande hails Greek proposals, urges deal (Updated)
French President Francois Hollande said the latest proposals for reforms by the Greek government were “serious and credible”, and said talks between Greece and international...
ECB says can’t be ‘overly generous’ with emergency loans
By Francesco Canepa The European Central Bank cannot provide emergency funding to banks on overly generous terms or against insufficient collateral, it said on Tuesday,...
Athens stock market to remain closed until Wednesday
The Athens stock exchange will remain closed until Wednesday, the Greek Capital Markets Commission said, in line with the closure of the country’s banks as...
Our View: If referendum changed anything it was for the worse
IT IS DIFFICULT to know why Greeks were celebrating on the streets of Athens on Sunday night. Had they really believed the vacuous rhetoric of...
Greece’s Tsipras wins broad political backing for aid talks
Greece’s main opposition and ruling parties issued a joint declaration on Monday backing the government’s efforts to clinch a new aid deal, a move by...
Four allies break with Tsipras coalition’s line over bailout referendum
By Lefteris Papadimas and Renee Maltezou A referendum on bailout terms that has morphed into a plebiscite on Greece’s future in Europe has created the...
Greece’s Tsipras digs in against bailout
A defiant Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Greeks on Wednesday to reject an international bailout deal, wrecking any prospect of repairing broken relations with EU...
Back to the drachma? Greek lawmaker touches a nerve
By George Georgiopoulos An opposition lawmaker in Greece touched a nerve on Tuesday when he told parliament the left-wing government had a team preparing the...
Greece in shock as banks shut after snap referendum call (Update 3)
By Karolina Tagaris and Michele Kambas Stunned Greeks faced shuttered banks, long supermarkets lines and overwhelming uncertainty on Monday as a breakdown in talks between...
Thousands rally in Athens for Greece to stay in eurozone
By Angeliki Koutantou Several thousand demonstrators chanting “Europe! Europe!” rallied in front of parliament in Athens on Thursday calling for Greece to keep the euro,...
Greek leader seeks party backing as EU warns on cash deal hopes (Update 3)
By Renee Maltezou and Jan Strupczewski Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called on his fractious Syriza party to rally behind the government on Tuesday as...
Germany, France usher Greece back to negotiating table (Updated)
By Renee Maltezou and Alastair Macdonald European leaders told Greece on Friday to return to the negotiating table for “intensive work” to wrap up a...
Greece makes IMF payment but hopes of quick deal dashed
By George Georgiopoulos and John O’Donnell Greece made a small interest payment to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday but European lenders dashed hopes for...