Latest update: 03/09/2009 

- Costas Karamanlis - Economic crisis - Greece - legislative elections


Prime minister calls early parliamentary elections
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has announced that he is calling early parliamentary elections, saying he needed a "fresh political mandate" to deal with the problems confronting the country, including an economic slowdown.
By News Wires (text)
Aude Soufi / Siobhán SILKE (video)