Minister Antonis Samaras

• Greek Prime Minister Uses Paris Attack to Slam Syriza Migration Proposals

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras used the deadly Islamist attack on France's Charlie Hebdo magazine in an election campaign speech Wednesday to slam the opposition Syriza party's proposals on immigration.

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  Polls to 'Determine Whether Greece Stays in Europe': Prime Minister Antonis Samaras

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said today that a snap election planned for next month would determine whether the country remains part of the eurozone or not.

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  Snap Poll in Greece After Failure to Choose President

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Monday called for a snap poll next month that could bring a radical anti-austerity party to power after parliament failed for a third time to elect a President.

• Greek Prime Minister Repeats Call to Avoid Snap Election

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras urged lawmakers on Saturday to prevent the uncertainty of a snap general election by ensuring that a president is elected in a key vote in parliament next week.

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  Greek PM Hopes to Avoid Snap Election After Better Parliament Showing

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras today said that he hoped to avoid a snap general election next year after an improved result for his candidate in the second round of a parliamentary vote to elect a new president.

• Greek Radical Leftists Declare "Historic Win" Against Austerity

  Greek far-left opposition leader Alexis Tsipras declared victory over austerity policies on Monday as final results confirmed his anti-bailout party had won the country's election for the European Parliament.

• Greek Prime Minister caught swearing on camera

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Wednesday was caught swearing on camera as he fumbled a long-awaited announcement on tax relief.

• Greek party quits coalition over state TV debacle

  The smallest party in Greece's ruling coalition pulled out of the government on Friday after a row over the abrupt closure of the state broadcaster, leaving Prime Minister Antonis Samaras with a tiny majority in parliament.

• Greek PM offers to reinstate limited state TV broadcasts

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Friday offered to partially reinstate state broadcaster ERT after its dramatic shutdown this week sparked protests in Greece and criticism across Europe.

• Greek PM presses for deal on loan

  Greece has reacted with dismay to the European Union's failure to agree to release vital rescue loan funds for the debt-ridden country, with the prime minister warning it was not just Greece's future that hangs in the balance.

• Greek Prime Minister Samaras throws deputy out of party

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has said that a deputy from his center-right party who had expressed opposition to new austerity measures is no longer part of the parliamentary group and asked that he be stripped of his party membership as well.

• Greece's funds are running out, but confident on aid: Prime Minister

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Friday that the indebted country has enough money to keep going until mid-November but was confident it would get the next installment of rescue loans soon.

• Merkel tries to calm storms over Greece, ECB policy

  Domestic criticism has narrowed Merkel's room for manoeuvre when Greece is in dire need of more aid.

• France's Hollande says Greece must remain in euro

  French President Francois Hollande has said that Greece must remain in the eurozone. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met Mr Hollande in Paris as part of his country's push to win more time to carry out wrenching cuts to avert fiscal crisis.

• Wall Street pares losses after Fed minutes

  US stocks pared losses but were still modestly lower on Wednesday as minutes from the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve indicated the central bank was ready to pull the trigger on another round of stimulus.