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Greek Main Opposition Ready to Help Provided SYRIZA Leaves Obsessions Behind

Greek main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, in an interview to Sunday's Ethnos newspaper, left the possibility for cooperation with the government open provided that SYRIZA leaves its obsessions behind. He underlined that if the government needs help, New Democracy...

Greek Debt: Another BRICS in the Wall

BRICS is the new catchword that plays in the lips of SYRIZA leftist hardliners. All of a sudden, a new international development bank will give Greece loans without any obligations. At least that's what Alternate Minister for Social Security Dimitris Stratoulis believes....

Greek Alt. Social Security Minister: Red Lines Do not Fade

"Under no circumstance will the government sign an agreement that will violate SYRIZA's policy statements. The red lines do not fade," Greek Alternate Minister for Social Security Dimitris Stratoulis underlined speaking to Greek TV on Friday. He also noted that in this...

Greek PM Tsipras Takes Negotiation with Creditors Upon Himself

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras takes the negotiation with the country's creditors upon himself as talks between technical teams in Brussels have stalled again. Tsipras was at the government headquarters on Thursday afternoon where the negotiating team leader, Giorgos Chouliarakis, had a...

House Speaker Says Greece's Negotiating Team is Compliant to Lenders

Government Vice President Yiannis Dragasakis received harsh critiscism during the meeting of the SYRIZA Political Secretariat when he said that Athens will be ready to sign an agreement with creditors by May 19. In the past few days there have...

Greek Archbishop Worships Holy Relics, Criticizes SYRIZA Parliamentary Representative

Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens went to worship the holy relics of Saint Barbara at the church bearing the same name in Egaleo, Athens, where he criticized SYRIZA parliamentary representative Nikos Filis for his comments on the separation of church and...

Greek Parliament VP: Govt Cannot Accept the Most Harsh Version of Measures

"We are in trouble, on one hand there is the danger of a rift that will lead to a national tragedy and on the other it is the creditors' package, mostly IMF, which is of unprecedented brutality and does not...

Holy Relics Cannot Help a Government in Confusion

The forthcoming transfer of the holy relics of Saint Barbara to the Saint Savvas Oncology Hospital and the reception of the reliquary with the ceremonial honors reserved for heads of state has created a new controversy within the leftist ruling...

Greek Alt. Social Security Minister: SYRIZA Will not Come to an Agreement Cancelling the Program

"I believe that SYRIZA will not come to an agreement that will cancel basic aspects of the program," Greek Alternate Minister for Social Security Dimitris Stratoulis said in statements to Greek radio on Wednesday. "Manoeuvres are always done, certain retreats are always made, this...

First Rift in Coalition Over Building of Mosque in Athens

Junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) voted against two amendments on the building of a mosque in Athens and tax relief on The Athens Concert Hall. The ANEL lawmakers voted against two amendments at the Greek Parliament on Tuesday night,...