February 25, 2016
Politics, Refugees
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras threatens to block all EU refugee decisions if Greece will be left to deal with the crisis alone. Commenting on Austria’s initiative to hold a West Balkan Conference on Migration, Tsipras described it as “unacceptable”. PM Tsipras said he will block all decisions at an …
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June 26, 2015
Economy
Croupier and European Council President Donald Tusk told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during the EUCO Summit on Thursday”Gave over.”Prompt and tough was the answer by the PM. “Greece has 1.5 million jobless, 3 million poor and thousands of families that living on grandparents’ pension. This is not a game”. …
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May 22, 2015
Politics
Friday morning, the sun rose at 6:10 am in Greece. The meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in Riga had ended without effective result for a comprehensive solution to Greek debt problem. However the earth kept rotating as did the …
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May 18, 2015
Very Mix
A fancy news to start another miserable negotiations week between Greece and its creditors. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is one of the sexiest leaders of the world. He is sexier than US President Barack Obama and certainly Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the list of The Hottest Heads of …
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April 28, 2015
Economy, Politics
“Breakthrough in bailout talks is close,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced Monday evening as Greece is struggling to strike a deal with the country’s creditors by May 9th and avoid default to International Monetary Fund. In a live-interview to a private television channel, Tsipras ruler out snap elections but he …
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February 22, 2015
Economy, Politics
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed the Eugrogroup agreement of Friday, describing it as “a historic political decision for the future of Europe.” He stressed that Greece “won a battle, but not the war” and warned that “difficulties lie ahead.” Greece has to submit to the Eurogroup a list of …
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February 17, 2015
Politics
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras commented to several important issues like the broke down Eurogroup meeting on Monday and the several drafts submitted to Finance Minister Varoufakis, to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and to the first legislation his government is about to submit to Parliament with measures to relief indebted …
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January 26, 2015
Politics
This is one of the more fun congratulations messages left-wing SYRIZA received upon winning the Greek elections. Who cares if Russian president or the President of the European Parliament sent their diplomacy-motivated messages…. This one is we like more 🙂 Bravo Syriza! Must feel like they've just won a …
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January 26, 2015
Politics
That’s indeed a “revolutionary start” if it will be confirmed to be true: Elections winner and new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will not follow the good old Greek tradition of taking his oath as Prime Minister in the presence of the Archbishop of Greece and get the blessing of …
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January 22, 2015
Politics
This is the image I like! Two young men. Two young leaders. Relaxed. Casual dress. Bright smile. Holding hands in solidity. Trying to bring change in stiff, anachronistic and bureaucratic European Union that has lost contact to the people, see its millions of citizens as money producing machines. A European …
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January 13, 2015
Economy
Alexis Tsipras, leader of left-wing Syriza a said Greece cannot repay its debt as long as its creditors enforce “fiscal waterboarding” and signaled he will boost government spending if his Syriza alliance wins power. In an op-ed article in Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper today, Mr Tsipras said the notion that Greece’s …
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January 8, 2015
Politics
Good old Abba and the winner takes it all… In a lengthy interview with Britain’s Channel 4 leader of left-wing SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras said he wants it all: a debt relief, German World War II reparations and return of the enforced loan plus the Acropolis Marbles. “We are going to …
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May 26, 2014
Politics
Just hours after the European Parliament elections result, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras asked for early elections. Alexis Tsipras’s statement after meeting with the President: “A new political landscape emerged from the EP elections with new correlation of powers. Coalition government parties ND and PASOk suffered losses of more than 11%. …
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January 19, 2014
Politics
Ι first thought it was a hoax or a malicious troll stirring the already tensed relations between the party of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Nea Dimocratia, and main opposition party left-wing SYRIZA. But when I heard about it also in the prime time news of nationwide private television channels, I …
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January 29, 2013
Politics
Leader of main opposition party and chairman of left-wing SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, wants early elections in order to negotiate the loan agreement between Greece and its lenders and a new ‘haircut’. Speaking to state broadcaster NET TV, Tsipras declared, “the loan agreement is already dead” and “it needs to be …
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January 25, 2013
Economy, Politics
The impossible seems possible: Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greek main opposition party left-wing SYRIZA and the International Monetary Fund seem to have agreed that the Greek austerity program cannot succeed and therefore a new debt haircut is inevitable. After meeting with IMF officials in Washington, Tsipras told reporters that “cutting …
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December 10, 2012
Economy
Greek main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras from left-wing SYRIZA called for European debt conference and a debt ‘haircut’ for Greece and the entire Southern Europe as the only viable solution. In an exclusive interview to British daily “The Guardian“, Tsipras stressed that the austerity program is not working while it increases the …
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November 23, 2012
Very Mix
Alexis Tsipras, leader of main opposition party SYRIZA paid a visit to Barcelona, invited by the Spanish United Left to attend their pre-election campaign. Tsipras took the change to express support to the independence-seeking Catalans and spoke to them in Spanish. Video: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt ” Greece’s problems are …
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September 16, 2012
Economy
Calling for people to respond to the “invitation for unity and creation”, Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s leader of main opposition party left-wing SYRIZA, revealed a thorough program for the recostruction of the Greek economy. Speaking at the International Fair of Thessaloniki, Tsipras presented eight objectives for “a comprehensive, coherent, progressive and realistic reconstruction program” in order to …
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August 6, 2012
Politics
Alexis Tsipras, leader of left-wing SYRIZA and leader of main opposition party is one of “10 most dangerous politicians in Europe of euro crisis”, if we want to believe German weekly DER SPIEGEL. According to German weekly the “Ten agitators to bring the European project is in serious danger,” are “profiteers …
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