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The works and days of those in power damage not only their own reputation, but rock to its foundation the operation of the state and the relationship between politicians and the citizenry.

In Paris, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meets with current and former French presidents, picks up two awards, depicts himself as Odysseus, quotes Victor Hugo and Jacques Delors, solves the problem of youth unemployment,  unites the right-wing and the left-wing, and offers and exit strategy for Germany’s governmental crisis. The founder of the journal Politique International , which awarded Mr. Tsipras, justly called him a man of charisma and luck

Pasok MP and former minister Yannis Loverdos is the man who delivered to parliament classified defense ministry documents that he says establish that a middleman was illegally used by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos in pursuing a munitions sale to Saudi Arabia. The documents will be at the centre of Monday’s parliamentary debate, where Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis will clash swords.

This coming Monday will be a crucial day for this country’s political life. The Syriza-Independent Greeks party coalition is in danger of breaking up.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday night returned from Brussels to Athens, where a hellish weekend awaited him.  On Monday in parliament he will face a major battle which he himself provoked, so as to provide cover for his coalition partner, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos. But the drums have already begun to beat in Syriza.

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In his statement to the Council, Mr. Marinakis underlined that, ‘After three-and-a-half years of very active participation in the public affairs of Piraeus as City Council Member, the time has come for me to bid you good bye, for reasons beyond my control.

In the second half of this year, the central government’s debt will increase by 3.2 billion euros in order to create security reserves and debt payments.

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German domestic political developments, with the inability to form a government in Berlin, are cause for heightened political anxiety in Athens, which fears impediments in achieving its long-awaited debt reprofiling

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