Another round of austerity measures has been approved in Greece. Before, during and after the vote people went on strike and took to the streets. And there are signs of resistance stiffening. There ...

Workers in Greece held a general strike on Wednesday hitting every sector of the economy. It was called by the two main trade union federations with demands for higher pay and a reversal of austerity ...

Greece pledged to bring forward painful austerity measures yesterday (20 September), convincing international lenders to return to Athens early next week for talks that it hopes will secure the aid it ...

Greece: Statistics of austerity As more loans have been released to the Greek state a combination of recent surveys and reports show the true effects of years of austerity. There has been across the ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's recession deepened in the second quarter, according to official estimates released Thursday, as the country felt the painful consequences of the government's drive to ...

Last week, the Greek government announced a series of painful austerity measures aimed at tackling a budget crisis so serious, it once seemed like the entire country could go bankrupt. Likening the ...

When Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou discusses the $145 billion bailout plan that was adopted Sunday, he describes his nation's chaotic finances in language that should make sense even to ...

Tens of thousands of young people — and many older ones, too — gather in the main square of the capital, driven to protest by the despair of unemployment and a social system that cannot meet their ...