ANTI-AUSTERITY PARTY WINS GREEK POLL

Angola press greece election anti-austerity syriza leader tsipras vows to end pain 5 hrs ago... READ MORE›

GREECE DEBT CRISIS TSIPRAS FACING EUROZONE DEAL REVOLT

The European Commission published its own assessment on Wednesday, taking a more optimistic view of Greece's debt sustainability than the IMF but also suggesting debt relief... READ MORE›

THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT CONVEYS THE DESPAIR OF GREECE'S ELDERLY

A photograph of an elderly Greek man alone and weeping on the ground outside a national bank has emerged as the country's financial crisis deepens... READ MORE›

GREECE ELECTIONS: OUTCOME MAY PUT COUNTRY ON COLLISION COURSE WITH EU

Radical leftists Syriza, led by Alexis Tsipras, promise to renegotiate the international bailout that imposed austerity on Greece... READ MORE›

GREECES CULTURE OFDEFIANCE MAY HAVELED TO NO VOTE

Whether Greeks' overwhelming rejection on Sunday of the latest European loan deal proves to be a master stroke or a monumental blunder remains to be seen... READ MORE›

GREECE IS A VICTIM OF ITS OWN CRONYISM AND CORRUPTION

Why is Greece so different and why does the government of Alexis Tsipras send such mixed messages towards Europe?... READ MORE›

GREEK REFERENDUM PLAN BY ALEXIS TSIPRAS TESTS HIS POWER AND CONVICTION

Others argue that the prime minister, like others in Syriza, are actually trying to steer Greece out of the eurozone... READ MORE›

GREECES PARLIAMENT APPROVES PRIME MINISTERS BAILOUT PLAN

Representatives of the main creditors -- the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the other European nations that use the euro -- were poring over the Greek proposal on Friday... READ MORE›

MIXED MESSAGESAND NO PROGRESSAS GREEK CRISISCONTINUES

Tsipras and Syriza, saying he felt betrayed and pointing out that negotiations in the European Union are not a game of liar's poker... READ MORE›

HOPE BEGINS TODAY: THE INSIDE STORY OF SYRIZAS RISE TO POWER

On election night, on the top floor of Syriza's HQ, where Tsipras staff sit, nervousness turns to stunned relief as the results come through... READ MORE›

ARE GREEK ELECTIONS ABOUT TO CALL TIME ON FIVE PUNISHING YEARS OF AUSTERITY?

For Professor Constantine Tsoukalas, Greece's pre-eminent sociologist, there is no question that, come Monday, Europe will have reached a watershed... READ MORE›

COULD GREECE BECOME THE EUROPEAN VENEZUELA?

A dispute with miners in a village in northern greece suggests the syriza government shares the chavista anti-capitalist agenda... READ MORE›

CORRUPTION, FALLING OIL PRICES AND TALK OF A COUP

If the day comes when they too abandon President Maduro and turn against him, all bets will be off on what could happen to Venezuela... READ MORE›

BULGARIA FEARS FALLOUT FROM GREECES FINANCIAL TROUBLES

Many experts agree that Greek-owned banks in Bulgaria, unlike their parent companies in Greece, are financially sound, with healthy balance sheets and large amounts of cash... READ MORE›

SETTING A DEADLINE FOR GREECE PROVES MUCH EASIER THAN SEALING A FATE

But Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece said the situation was a European problem in need of a European solution... READ MORE›

GERMANY BELIEVES EURO ZONE COULD COPE WITH GREECE EXIT

Germany believes euro zone could cope with Greece exit report... READ MORE›

GREEK OFFER TO CREDITORS STIRS ANGRY BACKLASH AT HOME

A European Commission spokesman emphasized that Greece needed to spell out what actions it will take before any bailout funds can be released... READ MORE›

ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A SCIENTIST NOT ENOUGH FOR SOME U.S. REPUBLICANS

The commission is the technocratic expression of austerity, but it is not really calling the shots in a debate dominated by individual countries, notably Germany... READ MORE›

GREECES NEW ANTI-AUSTERITY GOVERNMENT SET ON COLLISION COURSE WITH BRUSSELS

Photograph Andrea Comas Reuters Tsipras's choice of coalition partners came as an unpleasant surprise to the eurozone's finance ministers gathering under wet, leaden skies in Brussels... READ MORE›

FIVE THINGS SYRIZA WANTS FOR GREECE

Syriza wants Germany to repay a loan that the Nazis forced the Bank of Greece to pay during the occupation... READ MORE›

AS ECONOMY LAGS HUGO CHVEZS MOVEMENT FADES IN VENEZUELA

BARINAS, Venezuela -- As president, Hugo Chavez lavished millions from this country's oil boom on his home state of Barinas... READ MORE›

GREECE: SYRIZA JUGGLES COAL, PIPELINES AND CLIMATE AMBITIONS

Greece Syriza juggles coal, pipelines and climate ambitions... READ MORE›

QATARI-LED GROUP WINS 4 BILLION BATTLE FOR LONDON S CANARY WHARF

The commission is the technocratic expression of austerity, but it is not really calling the shots in a debate dominated by individual countries, notably Germany... READ MORE›

Voters in Germany and Greece want very different things... READ MORE›

GREEK DEBT BLUEPRINT GETS A COLD RECEPTION IN ATHENS

European creditors have shown little inclination to roll back austerity policies or to make major concessions... READ MORE›

GLASTONBURY COMES TO GREECE: FESTIVAL-LIKE ATMOSPHERE AT HUGE ANTI-BAILOUT PROTEST

Some focused on the side-shows, such as stalls set up by Greece's myriad other radical groups, who think even Syriza represents a sell-out... READ MORE›

GREEK PM TSIPRAS NAMES ANTI-AUSTERITY CABINET, PORT SALE HALTED

That would have fatal consequences for Greece's financial system... READ MORE›

GREEK DEBT TALKS APPEAR TO STUMBLE

Analysts says Greece's membership of the 19-nation euro-currency bloc is at stake... READ MORE›

GREECE FIERCELY DIVIDED AS REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN GETS UNDER WAY

This referendum is a fight between the greeks and europe's cruel capitalism... READ MORE›

THE ONLY REASON THE EU WOULD FORCE GREECE TO LEAVE THE EURO IS TO PUNISH IT

On Monday European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said at a news conference that he d been betrayed by the Greek government... READ MORE›