Alexis Tsipras

Greece's ruling SYRIZA's parliamentary group meets on Monday amid important political developments, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said. The Greek premier was talking amid a high-profile scandal involving the Novartis pharmaceutical giant and some Greek politicians. "Responsibility, democratic consistency, constitutional loyalty,...

"I have a responsibility towards the country," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Saturday in a meeting with main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, government sources told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency. Mitsotakis, according to the same sources, accused him...

French leftist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon has denounced Greece's ruling SYRIZA party, saying it does not belong in a grouping of fellow European left-winger because of its "submissive" role in implementing austerity policies. However, SYRIZA MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis, hit back on Twitter,...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wants to see a grand coalition between Germany's center-left and center-right parties which would support debt relief for Athens. Germany's parties have been locked in talks since an inconclusive federal election in September. "Tsipras wants a...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and visiting Israeli President Reuven Rivlin laid the foundation stone for a Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki on Tuesday. "Thessaloniki’s Holocaust Museum is a tribute to the thousands of Greek Jews exterminated in concentration camps," Tsipras...

  Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) premier Zoran Zaev reiterated his party's position that a referendum over the country's UN-sanctioned name resolution is necessary, adding it would provide additional guarantees for Greece. "I don’t look at this issue as an obstacle....

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia name dispute has created a big headache for Alexis Tsipras and his party. Initially, the Greek prime minister tried to use the issue to deal a blow to the main opposition New Democracy party,...

Alexis Tsipras went to the presidential palace on Friday, to update President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on the latest from the ongoing negotiations between Greece and FYROM over the Balkan neighbor's name. "We will seek a solution on the...

Prime minister Alexis Tsipras met with EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici and IMF director Christine Lagarde on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. Both representatives of Greece's lenders praised the PM for the progress in...

"Instead of putting an end to austerity, he brought poverty...and he became the worst establishment himself," New Democracy President Kyriakos Mitsotakis said about Alexis Tsipras and the third anniversary of SYRIZA in power. In a video statement released on Thursday,...