When Yanis Varoufakis was elected to parliament and then named as Greek finance minister in January, he embarked on an extraordinary seven months of negotiations with the country’s creditors and…
Greece narrowly avoided defaulting on its debt on Thursday, making a crucial payment to the European Central Bank after receiving billions of euros in new aid from other eurozone countries.
The upcoming Greek election may reopen the can of worms that the 86 billion euro bailout deal with creditors was supposed to close.
LESBOS, Greece—In the hot summer sun, Giorgos Tirikos-Ergas rushed by bicycle last week to a small former store where volunteers provide food and temporary shelter to some of the thousands…
The International Monetary Fund felt it had to help Athens – but documents show it knew all along its plans were flawed. The compromises it made still dog the world’s…
After the re-election of Syriza, the country is running on full steam in order to achieve the positive evaluation of its legislative reforms by the institutions (ex Troika) and the…
Following the Greek Prime Minister΄s call for snap elections, the government has resigned and a new "caretaker" government has been sworn in today. The general elections of Greece will take…
The privatisation of state water companies around the world almost always has one common denominator: it is made under the pressure of international lenders in countries with large debt or…
Over the past weeks Greece has been facing an unprecedented spike in refugee arrivals in its eastern islands, pushing the country’s limited resources into a breaking point.
Over the next weeks, mainstream media will start publishing the first election polls for the upcoming Greek elections. It is widely known that not only do polls assess public opinion,…