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German Party Die Linke: 'SYRIZA Cannot Govern Under Blackmailing Demands'

German party Die Linke on Friday expressed its support for outgoing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, saying that his decision to resign and call elections despite his wide popularity shows how deeply foreign lenders are affecting Greece’s national sovereignty. “Alexis Tsipras...

Austerity Increases Debt, Says Head of European Left Group GUE/NGL

Greece’s debt problem could be resolved by ending austerity, the President of the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL), Gabriele Zimmer, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Tuesday. "The debt problem can be resolved first and...

German Finance Ministry: Greece Has Paid Back €360 Mln in Interest

The German Finance Ministry has admitted that the austerity policy imposed on Greece is responsible for the economic crisis and the bankruptcy threat, according to a Rheinische Post report. The report is the result of a question posed by German...

German MEP: War Reparations Should Be Paid To Greece

In a recent interview to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, German MEP Gabi Zimmer, leader of left-wing Die Linke in European Parliament, argued that Germany must pay war reparations to Greece, for damages caused by the Nazi occupation. Zimmer said that her party has...

Die Linke and Greek Major Opposition Party on Speaking Terms Again

The German Left Party “Die Linke” through their parliamentary spokesman on Foreign Affairs, Wolfgang Gehrcke, supports that Greece has every right to claim the war reparations bill from Germany. Thus, the German Parliamentary Spokesman of Die Linke, with his...

No Greeks Made it to German Parliament

The three Greek candidates in the Sept 22 German federal elections failed to be elected at the Bunderstag. They were candidates from three different parties that all saw their percentages drop because of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU)’s electoral...

Tsipras Says Austerity Boosts Golden Dawn

With social unrest raging again in Greece - this time over the killing of an anti-fascist for which a member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party was arrested - major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader...

Tsipras’ Visit to Germany

Greece’s program of reforms has brought results, the member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB) Jörg Asmussen stated after his meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, with the leader of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis...

RLF’s Survey on Grexit

A recent survey conducted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation supported that the EU should allow countries in trouble to exit the Eurozone. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, founded in Berlin in 1990, is a German think tank associated with the...