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Mitsotakis said the agreement was that Tsipras keeps his parliamentary majority and Kammenos would retain the five MPs needed to remain a parliamentary party.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that a viable solution must be found support with broad popular support in FYROM and Greece without external pressures.

The bill establishes two main criteria for hiring, prior service and academic credentials.

The report underlines that the sooner the Greek general election is held the better for the immediate prospects of the economy, as it will boost fragile investor confidence.

Kammenos is now trying to lure independent MPs who have left or have been expelled from other parties

Greece will continue to be ruled by a government that sacrifices the political stability that the country sorely needs in order to stay in power at all costs.

Kammenos has been replaced by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

At the moment politics is being channeled towards gamblers’ practices and the system of government is slipping into an anomalous situation, comparable to the one that prevailed in the mid-1960s.

Political uncertainty predominates, resulting in the entrapment of and threat to the economy, as Mr. Tsipras would concede.

Merkel said that in public administration there has not been sufficient progress, despite the fact that more generally there has been progress on the reform front.

The talks also touched on tax cuts that ND has proposed, attracting investment, and continuing on the path of structural reforms.

PM Alexis Tsipras, beyond his 145 MPs, has secured the approval of six MPs from smaller parties to ratify the accord.

The party of the prime minister, SYRIZA, was among the political forces that exploited the indignation citizens and indeed fueled it.

The German Chancellor and other European partners do not want to have to tackle a Greek question again.

'I am grateful to Alexis Tsipras for working with [FYROM PM] Zoran Zaev for a solution to the naming issue,' Merkel said

It would be a grave error if the PM were to attempt to stay in power by bending to the dictates of his partner or by seeking the scatterred votes of MPs.

Alexis Tsipras made clear that Defence Minister Panos Kammenos’ stance on the Greece-FYROM Prespa Agreement poses a problem for the government’s parliamentary majority.

Tsipras said that if necessary he will seek the confidence vote before he tables for ratification the Greece-FYROM accord.

Mitsotakis said Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA will destroy the country if they complete their term in office.

The government is using its remaining political capital to pass legislation that revives the notorious offsets of arms deals.