Antonis Samaras

ATHENS — International debt inspectors gave conditional approval Monday to an additional $13 billion in rescue aid for the beleaguered Greek government, but insisted that it cut thousands of civil service jobs as part of an effort to slash...

ATHENS — Greece’s embattled ruling coalition Wednesday forced striking seamen to return to work and restore suspended ferry services to dozens of Greek islands that have been cut off from the mainland, leading to food and medical shortages....

ATHENS -- Greece's ruling coalition on Thursday issued an emergency order demanding that striking subway employees go back to work or face massive arrests and potential job losses in the latest labor showdown to grip the beleaguered government. It is...

LONDON -- European officials Thursday took two more steps in their fight against the region's lingering debt crisis, agreeing on a deal to put big banks under the oversight of a single supervisor and releasing desperately needed loans for Greece to pay...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras asked for more time from Berlin on Friday to implement the deep austerity measures required of it under the terms of its financial bailout. German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that Athens stick to its commitments....

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras launched a high-gear diplomatic offensive aimed at buying his country more time to implement reforms demanded by increasingly impatient European creditors....

With Europe's debt crisis deepening, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Greece o signal her support for a country where many blame her personally for driving their economy into the ground....

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's first visit to Greece since the euro debt crisis erupted is met by tens of thousands of protesters in Athens on Tuesday. Merkel is blamed by many Greeks for driving their economy to ruin through her insistence on...

Greek workers launched a 48-hour nationwide strike to protest proposed new austerity measures that would slash pay, raise taxes and increase the retirement age....

Europe’s economic gloom deepened Wednesday on the back of news that unemployment in the 17-nation Eurozone hit another record high in September as the region’s debt crisis continued to sap the confidence of business owners, investors and...

Debates over austerity measures in Spain, Italy and Greece served as silent pressure on the European Central Bank (ECB) to do something at its Thursday board meeting to boost investors' confidence in the government bonds Italy and Spain need to float to...

With doubts flaring anew over whether Europe can solve its deepening debt and currency crisis, Greece’s international creditors arrived in Athens on Tuesday for a inspection that could determine if the near-bankrupt nation remains within the...