Greece
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Parties switch attention to new elections
Compromise reached over new caretaker premier following tense meeting of party leaders.
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Top judge appointed caretaker PM
Panayiotis Pikrammenos vows to safeguard country’s ‘standing, transition’.
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Govt condemns Golden Dawn leader’s Holocaust denial
The government and Jewish community condemned the leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn for saying there were no gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps.
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Failure to agree leads to new polls on June 17
With time running out, Greece heads to new elections.
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New proposal leads to further party talks
President Karolos Papoulias proposed that parties discuss the possibility of supporting an administration of “personalities,” or technocrats and respected political figures with br
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Papoulias to now attempt to form coalition government
Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos on Saturday returned a mandate to form a government, after failing to come up with coalition partners, following a meeting with President Karolos P
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No reform, no aid, says ECB
“Greece will not receive any more financial aid if it does not stick to the agreed bailout deal”, European Central Bank policymaker and head of Germany’s Bundesbank Jens Weidmann w
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Parties struggling to reach a deal
Greece’s chances of forming a unity government that would negate the need for new elections were hanging by a thread on Sunday night after a long day of talks between President Kar
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No more financial aid for Greece if…
The head of Germany’s central bank is warning that there would be no basis for further financial aid to Greece if the country backs off agreements with international creditors.