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German Chancellor Merkel: 'I would Like Greece to stay in the Eurozone'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she preferred that Greece remain in the eurozone, but noted that the basis of all European efforts is the principle of solidarity before individual effort and responsibility. In an advance excerpt of an interview appearing...

Tsipras Aims for Parliament Majority

SYRIZA’s aim is to get the majority of seats in the Greek Parliament on the first election round. “I don’t even want to think about the scenario of a second round,” said the party’s leader Alexis Tsipras in an...

Spanish Podemos: Greek Elections Dilemma Is Merkel or Tsipras [Video]

There are two options for the upcoming January 25 Greek general elections, said Pablo Iglesias Turrion, leader and founder of leftist Spanish political party Podemos (We Can), and those are either the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, or the Greek...

Former Greek PM George Papandreou Speaks About Everyone and Everything

Democratic Socialists Movement leader and former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou, during an interview to Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Saturday, referred to everything and everyone and shed light to a number of questions and speculations regarding his actions and policy when...

A Possible Grexit Would Signal Merkel's Biggest Defeat

The explicit affirmation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from London that no question of changing Berlin’s policy towards Greece gives an end to the speculation regarding the risk of a Grexit, which was fueled by recent reports in the German...

Charlie Hebdo's Last Cartoon About Greece

Georges Wolinski was one of the four cartoonists slain by terrorists in Paris yesterday. One of the last sketches the French artist drew was about Greece. The cartoon's theme is the possibility that Greece may be out of the Eurozone in 2015. It...

Merkel Wants Greece in Euro Zone

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has played down the chances of Greece exiting the euro zone, but made clear she expects Athens to honor the bailout terms after this month’s election. With leftist SYRIZA holding a steady lead in opinion polls...

German Vice Chancellor Gabriel: Germany Wants Greece in the Eurozone

The German government's desire for Greece's Eurozone membership expressed the country’s Vice Chancellor and Economic Affairs Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, in his recent interview to German newspaper "Hanoversche Allgemeine Zeitung," adding that the Eurozone expects that the agreements between the two...

Spiegel: Grexit Not a Problem For Germany

Fears of Greece's departure from the Euro after an impeding preponderance of Alexis Tsipras' anti-austerity political party, SYRIZA, on the January 25 Greek elections, don't seem to torment the Angela Merkel administration, according to German magazine Der Spiegel. Unnamed authority...

German Newspaper Claims SYRIZA Leader Is Not Irrational

German newspaper Der Spiegel has published an extensive article on the political developments in Greece, noting that SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras may not be as irrational as everyone in Germany thinks. Reporter Jakob Augstein, son of Der Spiegel’s founder, published an article...