AlHijjah 29, 1432, Nov 25, 2011, SPA -- Greek authorities say they have mounted an air and sea rescue operation for about 100 migrants on a disabled trawler in rough seas off southern Greece, as AP reported.
A coast guard statement Friday said (...)
AlHijjah 28, 1432, Nov 24, 2011, SPA -- Riot police clashed with workers at Greece's biggest power producer PPC on Thursday as they staged a protest against a new property tax imposed as part of austerity measures to avert the country's bankruptcy, (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA -- The leader of Greece's conservative New Democracy party sent a letter on Wednesday to the European Union and IMF saying he supported the terms of a bailout aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy, Reuters (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA -- Greece's new prime minister headed to Brussels on Sunday to fight for the aid Athens needs to avoid bankruptcy, even as one of his coalition backers refused to give a written pledge to support reforms and a (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Greece's new coalition government was to resume
talks Friday with its international creditors, who were due in Athens
to assess ongoing efforts by the country to reduce its massive public
debt, according to (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- So deep is the general disgust with Greece's bickering political class that if there was a political party called "Nobody" it would have a clean sweep in an early general election slated for Feb. 19.
Where (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Greece's government forecasts a budget deficit of 5.4 percent of GDP next year, provided a planned debt swap to reduce the country's debt maintenance costs goes ahead, according to a final budget plan (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA -- Greece's new coalition government, headed by former European Central Bank member Lucas Papademos, won a confidence vote in parliament with a comfortable majority on Wednesday, according to dpa.
A total of 255 (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA -- Greece's budget deficit will reach 9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year, the country's newly-appointed premier told parliament on Monday.
Presenting the new government's new policies, Prime (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- Greece's new prime minister Lucas Papademos will seek to take advantage of a rare political truce on Monday to push through austerity and radical reform aimed at restoring the country's tattered credibility (...)
AlHijjah 15, 1432, Nov 11, 2011, SPA - Greece's new coalition government will be sworn in at 1400 GMT on Friday, two hours later than initially planned, the president's office said.
An official at the president's office declined to elaborate on the (...)
AlHijjah 15, 1432, Nov 11, 2011, SPA -- Greece's new interim cabinet was sworn in on Friday, with Lucas Papademos taking over the premiership and Evangelos Venizelos staying on as finance minister.
Papademos was appointed on Thursday to head the (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA - Greek political leaders arrived on Thursday at the president's mansion in a fresh attempt to clinch an elusive deal on a new coalition government, a Reuters reporter said.
Outgoing Prime Minister George (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA -- Greece's new interim coalition government will be sworn in on Friday and former European Central Bank vice president Lucas Papademos will be the country's new prime minister, according to a statement from the (...)
AlHijjah 10, 1432, Nov 6, 2011, SPA -- Greek leaders were beginning a second day of talks and behind-the-scenes wrangling on Sunday to break a political deadlock that threatens to push the debt-laden nation closer to bankruptcy and out of the euro (...)
AlHijjah 10, 1432, Nov 6, 2011, SPA -- Greek opposition leader Antonis Samaras has agreed to hold talks with Prime Minister George Papandreou if the two are invited by the country's president, a statement from his party said on Sunday, Reuters (...)
AlHijjah 10, 1432, Nov 6, 2011, SPA -- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said he would not head a new coalition government, which could be agreed with the opposition as early as Sunday, Reuters quoted a statement from his office as saying.
"It (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a confidence vote on Saturday after promising to seek an interim
government to secure a new European debt deal to avert the country's
bankruptcy, according to (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- Embattled Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is preparing to start talks to try to form a four-month coalition government, aimed at securing continued rescue funds for the near-bankrupt eurozone country, (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Saturday told the country's president a political consensus was crucial to avoiding elections and protecting Greece's membership of the euro zone, Reuters reported.
"My (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- Negotiations on a new Greek coalition government will begin soon, Prime Minister George Papandreou said after talks with the country's president on Saturday, according to Reuters.
"In order to create this wider (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- Greek opposition leader Antonis Samaras will meet the country's president on Sunday, a statement from the president's office said.
Samaras, the head of the New Democracy conservatives, had earlier called for a (...)
AlHijjah 8, 1432, Nov 4, 2011, SPA -- Lawmakers are gearing up for a crucial confidence vote in Greece's beleaguered Socialist government, in the latest act of a political drama that has horrified the loan-dependent country's European partners and (...)
AlHijjah 8, 1432, Nov 4, 2011, SPA -- Greek parliamentarians prepared to give their verdict on Prime Minister George Papandreou on Friday in a confidence vote, with many demanding a national unity government to decide the fate of the nation's (...)
AlHijjah 7, 1432, Nov 3, 2011, SPA -- Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos opposes holding a referendum on the country's euro zone bailout package, a finance ministry source said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
"Under these conditions a (...)