Alexis Tsipras

A constructive fifty-minute telephone conversation between the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel was held on Thursday afternoon, only a few hours ahead of today’s crucial Eurogroup meeting in Brussels. According to a Greek...

The current Greek bailout program is over and austerity measures included in it have failed, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Stern magazine in an exclusive interview published on the magazine’s website on Wednesday. "To us, the old austerity program...

With a positive result on the election of a new Greek President concluded the first round of voting by the Greek Parliament a few minutes earlier. Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the candidate nominated by the ruling SYRIZA party and Prime Minister Alexis...

The Greek government has confirmed its intention to apply for an extension of its loan agreement tomorrow morning in order to avoid the danger of running out of liquidity by the end of February -when the current bailout program...

Panagiotis Nikoloudis is not a politician, however he was appointed by the new leftist SYRIZA-led government to fight one of Greece's major plights: corruption. The supreme court prosecutor who is now Minister of Transparency and Anti-Corruption is a specialist in economic crime...

Greek opposition party To Potami in a statement issued by its leader, Stavros Theodorakis, has expressed its disagreement with SYRIZA’s nomination of former New Democracy Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos for the Presidency of the Republic. Mr. Theodorakis stated, his party...

With Greece proposing a six-month loan agreement and Germany insisting on the continuation of the current bailout program, there is a constant exchange of bitter words between officials of the two countries. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has stated repeatedly...

  Greece's government is planning to request a six-month extension of the 240 billion-euro loan set to expire at the end of February, but without extending the current memorandum and its austerity measures previous Greek governments had signed as part...

The "open" issue of Piraeus Port Authority's privatization as well as the wider Chinese interest to strengthen cooperation with Greece was mainly tabled during yesterday's 50-minute-long meeting between Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Chinese Ambassador in Athens Xiaoli Zou. The...

The Greek Communist Party (KKE) criticized the choice of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to propose Prokopis Pavlopoulos for President of the Hellenic Republic and announced that KKE MPs will vote "present" in tomorrow's vote. The official announcement issued from KKE headquarters underlined...