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There is little about Europe in the election campaigns of the Greek political parties. A week before the elections on May 26, the agenda has been limited into a duel between prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his potential successor Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of conservative New Democracy. Smaller parties like KINAL/PASOK …

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras open the window for more benefits saying “our goal is a Christmas bonus” for the country’s pensioners. Speaking to news247 FM on Monday, Tsipras said that the government the so-called “13th pension equivalent to Easter bonus before it was cut due to austerity measures imposed by …

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“If we are certain that the Greek economy produces fiscal space and we have the opportunity to take further relief measures to restore the injustices, of course we will do it,” government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Sunday. Tzanakopoulos was speaking to radio 9.84FM, when he was asked whether the …

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The Greek government survived one more confidence vote on Friday, as expected. Out of 289 present lawmakers 153 voted in favor and 136 against. In favor voted also a lawmaker from the Centrists’ Union. The confidence vote came after main opposition New Democracy filed a censure motion against Alternate Health …

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Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy has been playing dirty ahead of European and local elections and on the occasion of the confidence vote in the Parliament. On Wednesday during the debate in Parliament, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed that the deceased father of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and a …

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“Every vote for New Democracy is a vote for anti-Greek Weber,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday targeting the EPP’s arch-conservative candidate for the European Commission Presidency, German Manfred Weber. Reason for Tsipras’ attack on Weber was the comment by the latter on the relief measures announced by the …

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced a package of relief measures to relieve the life of debt-ridden Greek households. Among the measure for 2019 is the generous reduction of Value Added Tax in food items, catering industry, electricity and natural gas as well as the distribution of so-called 13th pension. Value …

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Political turmoil has broken out in Greece after media affiliated with main opposition party revealed that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spent last summer vacations on a luxury yacht of a Greek shipowner. Tsipras’ vacation in August 2018 took place just weeks after the horrendous wildfire in Mati that took the …

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Main opposition party New Democracy filed a censure motion against Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis. Reason for the motion was Polakis’ verbal attack against ND candidate for the European Elections Stelios Kymbouropoulos, a 34-year-old doctor with disabilities. Responding to ND challenge, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras turned the censure motion into …

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras commented on the result of the elections in Spain praising the victory of the socialist party and the progressive forces. “The prevalence of progressive forces in Spain and the collapse of the right-wing People’s Party is a message of hope,” he said in a tweet. …

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“Next time I’ll come to Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be Prime Minister.” The bold support came by Manfred Weber, the center-right European People’s Party candidate to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the President of the European Commission. The Bavarian arch-conservative politician from the Christian Social Union choose the Greek capital Athens …

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the UK’s Brexit deadlock illustrates the flaws of a “nationalistic approach” and “chauvinist rhetoric” in addressing a country’s political, economic and social problems. “Brexit was a very bad development for Europe, and very bad for Britain as well,” Mr Tsipras said in an interview …

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Repaying earlier expensive International Monetary Fund loans is a significant step for Greece which will create favorable conditions for its economy, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday, promising more relief measures. “We are gaining points of (economic) freedom,” Tsipras said during an interview with Greece’s private ANT1 TV. During the …

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Greece, Cyprus and Jordan’s cooperation enhances the strategy for the peace and stability prospect in the eastern Mediterranean, said Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the 2nd Greece, Cyprus, Jordan trilateral Summit that is held in Amman on Sunday. Tsipras, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades …

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Director Costas Gavras turned the Kotzias square in the historical center of Athens into a setting for his latest film “Adults in the Room” based on the book of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis Part of the shooting about the Greek crisis in the first half of 2015 took place …

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras favors extension of Brexit process until March 2020 and he even hopes that Brexit could be reversed. European leaders have to decide on the issue of Brexit by taking into account their historical and political responsibility, Tsipras told European leaders at the Extraordinary Summit on …

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras supports a flexible extension to the Brexit deadline, government sources told Greek media. The Greek prime minister is participating in the emergency summit of the European Council on Brexit (Article 50) on Wednesday. The European Council is examining British Prime Minister Theresa May’s request for an …

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrived in the North-Macedonian capital Skopje on Tuesday morning following an invitation by his counterpart Zoran Zaef. It is the first time a Greek prime ministers visits its neighbor in the North. Video: Welcome ceremony posted by A. Tsipras The visit is taking place almost …

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The Prespes Agreement had a political cost, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted a day before his visit to North Macedonia, the first of a Greek Prime Minister in the neighboring country. Speaking to North-Macedonian news agency MIA, Tsipras said that the price paid was that “a significant portion of …

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Pope Francis has suggested Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras should be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize due to his contribution to solve the Migration crisis. “I once spoke to a politician, a man that I respect and I will say the name: Alexis Tsipras,” the Pope told journalists during …

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