2 February 2019
This year, the Ewald von Kleist Award at the Munich Security Conference will be awarded to Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras for the Prespa Agreement, Deutsche Welle reported in Greek. Conference Chairman Wolfgang Ischinger on his official Twitter account on Jan 25th, shortly after the Prespa Agreement was ratified by Greek Parliament, wrote that “the two […]
25 January 2019
Congratulations my friend Alexis Tsipras, together with our peoples we reached a historic victory, wrote Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on his Facebook page, regarding the ratification of the Prespa Agreement at the Greek Parliament. “Long live the Prespa Agreement! For eternal peace and progress of the Balkans and in Europe!” wrote Zaev in his address. […]
21 August 2018
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras will have a TV address to the nation today on the occassion of the end of the country’s financial crisis. Tsipras symbolically chose Ithaca island in the Ionian Sea, the home of Odysseus, which he struggles to find in his well known aruduous 10-year journey after the Trojan War. With […]
13 July 2017
The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has repeated today that the name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) must be resolved before the tiny Balkan neighbor can join the European Union and NATO, reports the Greek daily newspaper “Kathimerini.” Speaking during a joint press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić […]
11 July 2017
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Thursday in Thessaloniki, reports the Greek news agency ANA-MPA. Tsipras and Vučić will participate in the Greek-Serbian high-Level Cooperation Council, after which they will give a joint statement. After the meeting with the Serbian President, Tsipras will […]
16 October 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras criticized the European Union for the delay of resolving the refugee crisis. “The EU moves at such a slow rhythm, even though their decisions are in the right place”, stressed Prime Minister Tsipras after the emergency EU summit in Brussels, commenting that the European Union faces an existential problem that must […]
21 September 2015
Alexis Tsipras officially began his second term as Prime Minister. Tonight he is at the presidential palace in Athens, and is being sworn in as the new Prime Minister. The new composition of the coalition government SYRIZA – Independent Greeks are expected to be announced shortly and the new government to be sworn in and […]
12 August 2015
In an environment full of obstacles and mutiny in the ranks of SYRIZA and announcements for protests in the streets, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras submitted in front of the National Assembly the new three-year agreement with Greece’s creditors. There is optimism that the agreement will get a green light by Friday morning. The agreement that […]
14 July 2015
Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis requests Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to withdraw the agreement with creditors before making final decisions in the Parliament. Lafazanis, who from the beginning is a sharp opponent of the demands and proposals of the European institutions and considers measures humiliating, said in his written decision that the agreement is unacceptable and […]
13 July 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras returns to Greece with a commitment the Greek Parliament to vote on the whole list conditions and priority actions agreed at the 17 hours of negotiations on a new Greek assistance in Brussels until Wednesday. Plan B for Greece’s exclusion from the Eurozone is avoided, but for Greece to proceed […]
8 July 2015
After yesterday’s summit in Brussels, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras headed towards Strasbourg, where he addressed the European Parliament and explain the position of his country. Tsipras said that his country had become “a laboratory for the austerity measures.” – Rescue plan is in force for five years. In no other country the austerity program […]
8 July 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is facing the most intense 48 hours in his prime ministerial career. Torn between the Greek “no” to the rigorous measures, pressures from the extreme wing of SYRIZA not to accept European pressures, agreement and promise to most of the Greek political forces that an agreement that will keep the […]
7 July 2015
According to unofficial information, Greece today didn’t submit new proposals to creditors. Greek media cite government sources and report that Greece submitted the proposals of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras from last week to the negotiating table of the Eurogroup, which at that point were not considered because the finance ministers said they would await the […]
1 July 2015
It appears that Greece is changing its tune and accepts all proposals of the agreement proposed by European partners. The Greek government sent a new letter to the European institutions and the head of the IMF Christine Lagarde, in which it openly accepts all conditions and reforms that creditors proposed last weekend. The information was […]
13 June 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ended speculation about early elections in Greece and the views that the Greek government will completely cross over red lines. At yesterday’s meeting with members of government in Prime Minister’s Office, Tsipras stressed that it should be stopped and forget all ideas and calls for early elections and a referendum […]
9 April 2015
Greece wants to remain a factor of stability and security in the Balkan region and to put an end to nationalism and nationalist policies on the Balkans. This, from the floor of the Institute of International Relations in Moscow, was recommended by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, during his official visit to Russia. – We […]
23 March 2015
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kodzias, a day before the Tsipras’ visit to Berlin, had a three-hour long meeting with his German counterpart Frank Walter Steinmeier in the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on which they also discussed the name dispute. According to information in Greece, the focus of discussion was the current political instability in […]
17 March 2015
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski would maybe attend the Summit of Heads of states, governments and the opposition parties of the European People’s Party (EPP), which will be held on 19th and 20th of March in Brussels. The ruling VMRO-DPMNE and its president, Nikola Gruevski, are members of the EPP. We failed to receive information […]
20 February 2015
Greek Government indicated the agreement in Brussels as its success, victory and final meeting of civil requirements and needs. Government of Alexis Tsipras is satisfied with the agreement in Brussels, saying that it succeeded to allocate victory on the extraordinary meeting of the Eurogroup and realize what was planned without having to withdraw from its […]
17 February 2015
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras nominated Prokopis Pavlopoulos, former minister of New Democracy, as a candidate for President of Greece. Provopulos is a surprise because we recently vociferously heard the name of the current Greek Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos as favorite for President. Greek Parliament tomorrow afternoon will have to vote for president, and considering that it […]
