Analysis : Bruised Greek government to limp along, toughen stance with lenders

By Harry Papachristou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's weakened coalition government is expected to survive the departure of a junior partner for now but will be forced to resist any fresh demands from its foreign lenders to prevent its tiny parliamentary majority from crumbling. A year after coming to power, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras suffered a heavy blow when his smallest coalition partner, the Democratic Left, quit the government last week to protest the abrupt closure of state broadcaster ERT. ...

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Happy Summer Eating: Franklin Foods Introduces Industry's First Greek Spreadable Cheese

Franklin Foods, the fastest growing cream cheese producer in the world, announced today the launch of the industry's first Greek Spreadable Cheese. Made with a combination of farm fresh dairy and Greek ...

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Greece vows faster reforms after political crisis

Greece vows faster reforms after political crisis The Advocate Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos leaves the official residence of conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Athens on Monday, June 24, 2013. Members of Venizelos' PASOK party are expecded to be handed top posts in a cabinet reshuffle due to ...

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Greece?s New Coalition Cabinet Sworn In

After three years of protests, strikes and riots against austerity measures and the New Democracy (ND) Conservative and PASOK Socialist parties for creating Greece’s crushing economic crisis and imposing pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, a new cabinet of ministers from the two parties who will serve in a power-sharing government under Prime Minister and ND chief Antonis Samaras was ...

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New cabinet sworn-in UPDATE

Greece's new Cabinet was sworn in on Tuesday, with socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos assuming the dual role of deputy prime minister and foreign minister and the key position of finance minister unchanged.Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced a broad reshuffle on Monday night, just a few days after the junior coalition partner pulled out of the administration after a dispute over the ...

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ND?s Voultepsi Declines Health Ministry Post

New Democracy’s Sofia Voultepsi quit as deputy Health Minister late on June 24 citing "personal reasons." She was replaced by Zetta Makri, also from the conservative party. Reports on June 25 said Voultepsi’s decision was linked to the the appointment of Adonis Georgiadis, a former member of the nationalist LAOS party, as Health Minister. Greek Prime Minister Antonis ...

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Greece has no time to waste Samaras tells new cabinet

Greece's new government aims to serve a full four year term, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Tuesday as he called for greater stability and better coordination between the parties in the two-member coalition.Speaking to the members of his new cabinet after a swearing-in ceremony at the Presidential Palace earlier in the day, the conservative leader said that the government's ...

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