One of the major mistakes that international and European observers often make in their analyses about Greece is that they focus way too much on the p...
Yesterday's prosperous citizens require international humanitarian assistance and a strong support from the Greek-American community at large. The Greek government and its European allies cannot pretend that nothing is amiss anymore.
Alexis Tsipras has a tough job. He is leader of the Syriza Party of Greece, a left party that has risen meteorically in the past three years: from 4....
ATHENS, Greece — Hundreds of youths pelted riot police with fire bombs, bottles and chunks of marble Thursday as yet another Greek anti-austerit...
Predictably, the unemployment rate rises above 25 percent, riots and demonstrations ensue, and an extreme right-wing party rapidly gains adherents. What this will mean for Europe's political future is unclear.
ATHENS, Greece — Unemployment in Greece hit a record high of 25.1 percent in July as the country's financial crisis continues to exact its heavy...
Europe must decide whether to accept the political bargain that was always there -- the loss of national sovereignty implicit in union -- or whether, more dangerously again, to try to go it alone.
Greek officials should certainly hope that collective European action will succeed in stabilizing these other two countries' economies. But they should also realize that too great a success could, ironically, map into a higher probability of a Grexit.
For many young Greeks who face a record 50 percent unemployment rate, immigration seems to be the only practical option. Societal values are changing as different attitudes are evolving.
ATHENS, Greece — Greece's prime minister warned Tuesday that the country's battered economy is expected to contract by 7 percent this year, but ...
The travel media has a great deal of power to correct errors in perception and help restore the image of Greece as a perfect destination for a summer vacation.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of a party in Greece's new coalition government on Tuesday said the country's recession made it "almost impossible" f...
ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment an...
Greece's political leaders still don't seem to get it, and neither do its official creditors. The longer this problem persists, the greater the challenge of turning around a country already beset by recession, insolvency, distressingly high unemployment and rising poverty.
ATHENS, Greece — Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the m...
-- Greeks will have to wrestle with a crucial dilemma when they go to the polls for the second time in as many months on June 17 to elect a new gover...
I never cease to be amazed at the contrast between the Greece that I read about in foreign newspapers and the Greece that I've known since childhood -- the Greece in which I live today.
Plato knew his people very well and said over two thousand years ago that mishandled democracy leads to despotism. The bridge between the two is nepotism.
LONDON -- International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde says she has more sympathy for poor African children than Greeks suffering under the cou...
Tragedy struck Thursday morning in the center of Athens when a mother and son leapt to their deaths. Kathimerini newspaper reports that sixty-year-old...
A Greek company in the deep end of the contrarian pool is my preferred choice. Not because it has better growth prospects. It doesn't. But it has one thing FB lacks: It's priced right for the risk.
Greece is on the verge of a national catastrophe. The local political leadership has made successive mistakes, only to be compounded by the recent vote. Let's examine the scenarios.
There is a surplus of the ugly in Greece -- of avarice, of hideous modernity, corruption, exploitation. But though it is largely hidden, there is something about the tough, durable fiber, the pride of generosity, the fierce instinct for independence which is at the core of the Greek soul.
Prices quoted on the Greek drachma, together with the tax-free or reduced tax environment, will result to adding more value to the holiday's budget -- therefore making Greece very affordable and overwhelmed with tourists from every part of the world.
We've passed the audition and are now holding starring roles in Animal Farm Takes Greece -- a remake of George Orwell's foretelling allegorical tale penned 67 years ago!
