What really will raise resistance in the centers of financial and despotic power around the world is this civic impulse.
It’s only a matter of weeks before Greece goes broke, at least according to the country’s former Prime Minister. George Papandreou, the former...
We are doing everything halfheartedly, taking part in a frenzied campaign to keep ourselves heartened, to convince ourselves not to give up.
AS I follow the modern Greek tragedy unfolding in Europe, I flash back to the 18 years I spent in Athens, walking to school in Plaka (the old part of ...
NEW YORK -- Europe's austerity fever is creating a "vicious circle" of economic pain, former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Thursday -...
Looking back, 2011 may be remembered as the year that world leaders passed the buck. And much to the chagrin of people with savings accounts< and other interest-bearing deposits, this flurry of buck-passing may have doomed them to another year of low interest rates.
Though the European debt crisis has in recent months revolved a small number of countries, most prominently Greece and Italy, issues of sovereign deb...
HONOLULU -- President Obama is welcoming the new governments being formed in Greece and Italy, saying they should help calm world financial markets. ...
One thing is certain: Mr. Berlusconi's parabola of success is near the end, a parabola which has hovered over Italy for years damaging it. His announced resignation is a sign of defeat.
ATHENS, Greece — Greece's laborious power-sharing talks disintegrated into chaos Wednesday, with political leaders failing to name a new prime m...
Why should 330 million Europeans face a financial and likely political meltdown for the sake of 11 million profligate Greeks? They should not.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will step down a temporary new coalition government is decided, CNN reports. One Greek lawmaker tells Reuter...
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday it would take a decade before the euro zone was in a better position and there was much ...
ATHENS, Greece — Greece's prime minister struggled Saturday to form a temporary coalition government in the near-bankrupt country, extending a p...
ATHENS, Greece — Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a confidence vote early Saturday, calming a vicious revolt in his Socialist par...
Plato's aversion to democracy is shared by a lot of powerful people these days. But politicians, especially those whose party derives its name from the democratic principle, would be better off remembering another Greek philosopher: Aristotle.
ATHENS/CANNES, France (Reuters) - Intense European pressure forced debt-stricken Greece to seek political consensus on a new bailout plan instead ...
ATHENS, Greece — Greece was in turmoil and the world economy in limbo Thursday as a high-stakes game of political brinkmanship in Athens led Pri...
George Papandreou will shortly "offer to resign" as prime minister of Greece, BBC reports. Greece currently denies that Papandreou has resigned, accor...
The Greek government teetered on the brink of collapse on Thursday over plans for a referendum on a euro zone bailout, with defections from the ru...
CANNES, France -- European leaders drew a line in the sand for Greece on Wednesday, saying its referendum on a hard-won bailout deal will decide wheth...
Greece now has the desperation power of the weak. Greek Prime Minister Papandreou's is a brave, nervy, high-stakes move, and one that deserves our respect.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's prime minister faces a grilling from the leaders of Germany and France on Wednesday after fighting to win the backing ...
George Papandreou's surprise referendum gamble — offering to put this latest European bailout plan to a popular vote in Greece — is n...
NEW YORK — A wave of selling swept across Wall Street and stock markets around the world Tuesday after Greece's prime minister said he would cal...
