alexis tsipras

An economy does not build endurance with triumphant declarations and self-deceptions, of the kind one has tragically witnessed in the recent past.

No distinguished member of the centre-left has responded positively to SYRIZA’s cunning invitation, which has fallen by the wayside.

The centre-left is backed by citizens who are not represented by conservative or populist forces, whatever banner those forces may raise to lure them.

A mysterious four-hour Athens stopover of a Venezuelan state aircraft carrying Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza on 2 March was reported by Greek SKAI television and radio today. The aircraft had taken off from Caracas and arrived in Greece without a flight plan. It had previously been denied permission to land in both Portugal and Switzerland […]

Since last August the government has operated as if it were in an electoral campaign. It has sharpened its rhetoric and suspended crucial measures and choices.

All opinion polls indicate that the basic worry of citizens is the economy and not which politicians will join SYRIZA in a political front after the PM’s invitation.

A whopping 67 percent replied that the Prespa Agreement will greatly affect the electoral outcome.

Mr. Tsipras must decide if he will become a European Social Democrat or whether he will again opt for opportunistic choices and easy, hollow pledges.

Power is characterised mainly by the demeanour and mores that accompany it. Currently, the level of mores is contemptible and the demeanour is enraging.

Andreas Papandreou came to power by uniting the Greeks, in contrast to Alexis Tsipras who won by dividing and governed with the same divisive rhetoric.

Major international media reported on Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis’ behaviour towards Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras.

The PM has assured us that the new, progressive political tent with SYRIZA at its core will cover the entire political spectrum 'from Social Democracy to the popular right'.

Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, who loses no opportunity to target his opponents and their families, and who is continuing a legal battle against a deceased journalist, now is playing the slighted and targeted victim.

There have been clashes between government ministers in the past, but they never reached this degree of unprecedented wretchedness, with the PM remaining silent.

One cannot but agree that the manner in which certaing Pasok cadres moved to SYRIZA creates the impression that the PM is in panic .

The government's paramount consideration in all choices is political gains for the ruling party. Creating fissures in politics and society is a primary concern.

The limited reshuffle was necessitated by the departure from the cabinet of two ministers who will be candidates in May’s municipal elections.

The government’s games with the constitutional revision undermined every effort to reach a parliamentary consensus

The fact that the provision on church-state relations was not passed by a two-thirds majority today means that it will need two-thirds to pass in the post-election Parliament.

It is impermissible for partisan criteria to take precedence over the need of the whole of society to meet the challenges of our era

The crucial political issue is that now the main opposition can deny the government the requisite enhanced majority to elect the president so as to force a general election and topple the government.

sipras believes that in tackling the constitutional amendments he can burnish his progressive image.

The tight embrace of the two coalition partners in the September, 2015 general election signaled more than just a reaffirmation of the Prime Minister’s trust in his junior coalition partner.

The attacks came even as Kammenos’ Independent Greeks party lost the status of a parliamentary party (which requires five MPs).

Weber lambasted Tsipras’ economic policy and the Greek PM’s refusal to sign on to EU initiatives regarding the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.