Alexis Tsipras

The 1,900 miners who work in the goldmines of Hellas Gold in Skouries in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, want to continue their work, despite the new government's pre-election promises to shut down the mines. According to Greek newspaper "Kathimerini," the Skouries...

Zoe Konstantopoulou will be the new President of the Greek Parliament after receiving a record 235 votes. Konstantopoulou will be the second woman to preside over the Greek House after Anna Psarouda-Benaki in 2004. She is also the youngest...

The Greek government will start presenting its policy statements on Sunday at 6 p.m. (local time), it was announced after the end of the first government council meeting on Thursday. During the meeting, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras briefed ministers...

A demonstration largely different from those Athens has seen in recent years took place today in downtown Athens' Syntagma Square. The rally was called for 6.00 pm and was organized through social media. It was the first pro-government demonstration...

(Joep Bertrams) Newly-elected Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is an enigma to Greek people, the European Union and those who follow politics around the world. The 40-year-old leader of the leftist SYRIZA party has won January's Greek election promising crisis-stricken Greek...

Addressing the first meeting of SYRIZA's parliamentary group, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised the coalition government that his party will engage in tough negotiations and put a final end to the Troika and its policies. He stressed that...

Greek National Defense Minister Panos Kammenos held a brief meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg yesterday in Brussels, a day ahead of the Alliance Defense Ministers' meeting to be held today and which Kammenos could not attend due to...

The situation in Ukraine and other international matters, such as the South Stream and Turkish Stream pipeline projects, dominated a telephone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras earlier on Thursday, the Kremlin announced. Putin invited...

The Greek government reacted to the European Central Bank's decision to stop accepting Greek bonds as collateral for its liquidity operations on February 11 and Athens announced that it will stay true to the popular mandate and will not...

The members of the new Greek Parliament took the oath of office on Thursday, February 5, in the presence of Archbishop Ieronymos. The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece performed the standard benediction, and then the parliament members swore...