Alexis Tsipras

Greek PM asks church for restraint in Macedonia

Athens - Muslimchronicle

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday requested restraint from the country’s influential Orthodox church amid renewed efforts to resolve a 27-year name row with neighboring Macedonia. The move came a day after the church said it was opposed to any compromise including the name ‘Macedonia’, which is also the name of a northern Greek province over which wars were fought a centuryRead more

Turkey's Erdogan holds visit to Greece

Ankara - Salwa Omar

Greece and Turkey squared up over old disputes on Thursday during a state visit to Athens by President Tayyip Erdogan that quickly descended into verbal sparring over a list of historical grievances. Designed to boost relations between the two nations, the first visit of a Turkish president in 65 years quickly turned into a blunt grudge-fest between the NATO allies.Read more

Greek government faces questions

Athens - Muslimchronicle

The Greek government has come under fire over a planned arms sale to Saudi Arabia that fell through amid accusations of incompetence against the defence minister, a key ally of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Opposition lawmakers say the botched deal for surplus military stock cost Greece 66 million euros ($78 million), while ruling party officials have questioned the sale ofRead more

Greek PM announces welfare handouts of 1.4bn euros

Athens - Muslimchronicle

Greece will plough 1.4 billion euros of its fiscal surplus into welfare handouts, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said late Monday, as the country emerges from an austerity programme imposed by creditors. The Greek economy is expected to grow 2.4 percent in 2018, after a series of multi-billion-euro bailouts since 2010. The surplus not counting debt payments is expected to reachRead more

Greek PM meets with European Commissioner in Athens

Athens - Muslimchronicle

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras meets with European Commissioner for budget and human resources Gunther Oettinger in Athens, Greece, July 17, 2017 source: xinhuaRead more

Greek President, PM praise China's role in addressing common challenges

Athens - Arab Today

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras praised on Sunday China's role in addressing common challenges, welcoming Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the eve of the first ministerial Ancient Civilization Forum. "We have the pleasure of establishing this forum of great ancient civilizations, an idea of the two foreign ministers of Greece and China, as the twoRead more

Greece’s 2016 primary surplus at 3.9% of output

Athens - Arab Today

Greece in 2016 registered a primary surplus of 3.9 percent of output, the statistics agency said Friday, in a key announcement for the country’s reform talks with its creditors. Under the bailout, Greece needed to clock a primary surplus — or budget surplus before debt repayments — of 0.5 percent of output in 2016, followed by 1.75 percent this yearRead more

Greece completes sale of 14 airports

Athens - Arab Today

Greece said it has finalized the sale of 14 regional airports to Germany’s Fraport agreed in 2015 within the framework of a huge international bailout to prevent the country from crashing out of the eurozone. In what had been the first major privatization drive for the government under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, a deal was reached at the end ofRead more

EU, Greece urge deal on bailout review

Athens - Arab Today

Greece and its lenders must reach a deal on a long-stalled bailout review at a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Friday, the country’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday, blaming creditors for unwarranted delays. Talks between Greece, the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have dragged on for months due to differences over Greece’s fiscal progress, laborRead more