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Greek fears grow over US pressure on Macedonia name dispute
The dispute over the name of Macedonia can be found high on the list diplomatic priorities of the Greek government this fall, in the face of strong US pressure.
Following the return to power of Alexis Tsipras, the Greek media has continued to report that the United States has, and continues too exert concentrated pressure for the dispute to be...
Tsipras hopes things begin to move between Athens and Skopje
The Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, hopes that measures to build confidence will help to speed up the process of resolving the name dispute. Speaking at the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), the Greek Prime Minister said that Greece is working to resolve all outstanding issues with the countries of the Western Balkans, pointing to the dispute...
Tsipras and Kerry discuss name dispute
At the meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and US Secretary of State John Kerry, the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece was on the agenda.
The US expressed support for a solution, while the Greek side were satisfied with the will to resolve the dispute within the Greek red lines for a composite name.
According to information from the Greek...
Gruevski and Tsipras discussed name dispute in New York
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had a brief meeting with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski in New York over the long disputed name issue. Greek newspaper "Real", indicated that the two Prime Ministers had a discussion during a reception hosted by US President Barack Obama in honour of world leaders participating in the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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Alexis Tsiparis sworn in as new Prime Minister of Greece
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 start working tomorrow or at...
Tsipras and Kamenos to put a new government together
Alexis Tsipras will announce today or tomorrow the new composition of his coalition government SYRIZA and the Independent Greek Party, after not gaining enough of the vote. After a clear victory by SYRIZA with a difference of 7.5 percent before New Democracy, Tsipras will be ready within 24 hours to continue his work in government which came to a...
Will SYRIZA split up following the new Memorandum’s vote?
The Greek government is on yet another crossroads. The casting of votes for the new package of measures will show how much support the Government lead by SYRIZA and Prime Minister Tsipras can enjoy from the party’s own rank. The leftist party has inched even closer to dissolution following yesterday’s appeal by former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who called...
Tsipras clashes with SYRIZA MPs before the coming vote in Parliament
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 will open the country to...
Tsipras admitted he and Varoufakis had a Plan B for the possible Grexit
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted openly that he had given an order to Yanis Varoufakis to prepare a Plan B, for a possible Greek exit from the Eurozone. Answering to the question posed by the leader of PASOK, Fofi Genimata, regarding the entire controversy which rose with the information of a Varoufakis’s alternative of a parallel banking system...
Greek Parliament votes for a second package of austerity measures; New blow to Syriza and Tsipras
The new priority measures for Greece have the adopted, however Alexis Tsipras did not get the support for his demands for a broader support of his party Syriza. In the marathon parliamentary discussion which finished with a vote at four in the morning, the measures were supported by 230 of 298 of the present MP’s; 63 voted against and...
Tsipras prepares the restructure of the Government
The Greek Prime Minister Alexi Tsipras is expected during the day to announce the new composition of the government. Tsipras after six months in power, decided to reconstruct and to change the governmental cabinet because of division in the parliamentary group and among his ministers over the new package of measures agreed by the European lenders.
The decision came after...
Part of SYRIZA requests Tsipras to cancel the agreement with the EU
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 goes against the national will...
Tsipras: The agreement is hard, but the worst case scenario for Greece was avoided
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 to negotiations and the payment...
Tsipras’ package awaiting approval from the Parliament
Greek Parliament will vote today on a new package of measures and reforms which the government of Alexis Tsipras will submit to European lenders.
It is a matter of set of ideas, reforms and measures with which Greece will request a new loan in the amount of 53.5 billion euros for the next three years, in particular from July 1...
Greece won’t miss the deadline of the EU
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 lasted so long - he reminded.
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Tsipras before the key 48 hours
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 country in the Eurozone...
Full Greek proposal tomorrow?
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 outcome of the referendum...
Tsipras loses the support of Independent Greeks
The government and opposition parties will be in a race to win voters in the next 72 hours, the time remaining until the referendum in Greece. Voters will have to declare whether they are for or against measures of the European partners, which the government considers to be unfair for Greek society, and thus to answer the question whether...
Tsipras with an ultimatum: Either sustainable solution or a big ‘no’ to European requirements
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 if the agreement with...
Kodzias informed Steinmeier on proposal for measures of confidence
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 the country and views on...
