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With the populist rhetoric that guided its thoughts and actions, the government engaged in a number of such clashes with reality, and reality won.

'There was absolute concord and identical views in both Churches, both on the proposals regarding the revision of the Constitution and on maintaining the existing system for paying the salaries of the Orthodox clergy.'

Our professors and students will build the universities of the 21st century. In this effort, the state cannot but support them.

'What Mr. Dragasakis said in the context of parliamentary debate was skewed in order to stir a sensation,” said Tzanakopoulos.

The conservative leader called for new, mutually beneficial Greece-Germany economic cooperation with a focus on investments.

SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks party experienced their joint rule as a romance. Now, we are witnessing a rupture the characteristics of which transcend politics.

Instead of confronting the burning issue of non-performing loans in a drastic manner, the government is testing the limits of the system with its policies

The majority was comprised of SYRIZA’s 145 MPs and eight more independents including MPs of the former Potami party parliamentary group.

The Papachristopoulos saga with his on again off again resignation was spurred by the MPs decision to break the party line on three crucial votes.

EPP's Manfreled Weber leaves open possibility of renegotiation of Greek programme’s primary surplus targets

The EPP's Manfred Weber in Athens lionised main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis and indirectly but clearly dismissed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as a populist who cannot bring growth.

'The Independent Greeks’ parliamentary group convened and we unanimously demanded that Mr. Papachristopoulos surrender his seat to the party as he had promised.'

Creditors also bear responsibility as they turned a blind eye to the debt problem and believed that austerity could remedy the ills of a country with the peculiarities of Greece.

Investment remains stuck at its lowest level and the economy is not taking off. It is unable to transcend the cycle and culture of pervasive pessimism, as if something is binding and immobilising it.

Tsipras and Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos called on Turkish authorities to approve the re-opening of the historic institution which for generations was the training ground for priests and patriarchs.

Peace is not built on hasty visits. It is even more difficult to build when the country effectively lacks a foreign minister (as the PM has assumed the portfolio).

Tsipras expressed heightened concern over dangerous military indidents in the Aegean and he underscored the importance of the direct line of communication with Erdogan.

The Greek judiciary, without probing the substance of the charges, ruled that the eight qualified for immunity as they could not be assured a fair trial in Turkey.

Andreas Papandreou is not remembered for crafting post-dictatorship politics, but rather because of the democratic achievements that it entailed, which were hardly a given at that time.

The Greek PM described his relationship with Erdogan as one of 'respect, honesty and directness' but noted that those ties were 'challenged in very difficult moments'.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has declared that not even one iota of parliamentary rules should be changed.

What will avert a repetition of the kinds of statements Mr. Erdogan made on his last visit to Greece, when he disputed even the Treaty of Lausanne?

This government systematically attempted to manipulate democratic institutions, including the judiciary.

According to Greek Parliamentary rules, for a political party to be recognised as a parliamentary group it must have five MPs elected on its ticket.

Might there be something else beyond their ideological kinship that links SYRIZA to the Maduros regime?

In 2018, the Open Society Foundation’s budget was approximately one billion dollars US, of which 81.7mn were earmarked for Europe

Gennimata expelled from the party the leader of the small, cooperating Democratic Left party, Thanasis Theocharopoulos.

'With the Prespa Agreement, Greece accepted the right of self-identification and that no one any longer can deny our right to be Macedonians who speak the Macedonian language in this land,' Zaev said

It is not merely political culture that mandates that a politician should not use unbecoming language or unleash threats.

'We are monitoring the situation and are obliged to be in a constant state of readiness,' said Cypriot Defence Minister Savvas Angelidis.

In order to persuade citizens that the realities are different from what they are experiencing, the government is handing out benefits and promises.

'International law makes it [the accord] difficult to change as it supersedes all domestic law. Any violation can bring international isolation and an International Court of Justice case against our country,' said New Democracy's leader.

How will the labour market absorb the wage hike? One would hope it will not be by reducing the number of jobs.