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Greek PM faces no-confidence vote in Parliament
Greek officials predict Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will survive a no-confidence vote in parliament later this week. Tsipras called for
Greek PM Tsipras faces confidence vote after minister quits
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Sunday he will ask for a vote of confidence in Parliament this week after
Ten detained after paint thrown at US Embassy
Greek police detained ten people and formally arrested two of them Monday after the U.S. Embassy in Athens was vandalized
Greece makes three migrants citizens for their wildfire rescues
Three migrant fishermen received Greek citizenship Wednesday for helping to rescue scores of people who were forced into the sea
Prehistoric tusk discovered in Florina mine
A prehistoric tusk was discovered on Wednesday at the mine of Amyntaion, Florina, by employees of the Public Power Corporation
Quake rocks Greek island, no major injuries reported
A strong earthquake off a western Greek tourist island early Friday morning was felt as far away as Athens, but
Greek officials predict Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will survive a no-confidence vote in parliament later this week.
Tsipras called for the vote Monday after defense minister Panos Kammenos resigned and pulled his nationalist ANEL party from the ruling coalition.
Kammenos quit to protest the deal with neighboring FYR Macedonia over the use of the name Macedonia.
ANEL leaving the coalition leaves Tsipras’ ruling leftist Syriza Party without a majority of seats in parliament, opening the door to possible early elections.
But a government spokesman says the party is confident of winning the no-confidence vote, set for Wednesday, and completing its four-year term in October.
The U.N.-brokered deal with FYR Macedonia ends a nearly 30 year-long dispute over who gets to use the name.
If approved by the Greek parliament, the former Yugoslav republic would be officially called the Republic of North Macedonia.
But many Greeks, especially nationalists, are still upset, saying the name should exclusively belong…
We have an obligation towards the constitution to look for wider synthesis and consensus, main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during plenary discussions for the revision of the constitution on Wednesday, but added that this
“The Greek government is moving in a logical and wise manner,” German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said during a press conference in Berlin, referring to the strategy followed by the Greek government that is negotiating
BRUSSELS (ANA/Ch. Vasilaki) – The European Commission is nearing an agreement with the Greek government to approve Greece’s draft budget for 2019, European sources said on Monday. The draft budget review is a process all
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited the Acropolis Museum where he congratulated its president, Dimitris Patermanis, “for his long-standing and emblematic contribution to the Acropolis Museum, which has led to its wide recognition on an international
On This Day
January 17
- 395: Upon the death of Theodosius I, the Roman Empire was permanently split into West and East. Some historians consider this event the beginning of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1822: Ali Pasha was beheaded by the Turks on a small island of Lake Pamvotis. The severed head was sent to Sultan Mahmud II in Istanbul.
- 1827: Georgios Karaiskakis defeated the Turkish army at Distomo possibly saving the Greek Revolution from being extinguished in Rumeli.
- Births: Nikos Nioplias, football player and coach (1965).
- Deaths: Theodosius I, Byzantine emperor (395), Ali Pasha (1822), Petrobey Mavromichalis, Maniote leader during the Greek Revolution (1848), Antonis Travlantonis, author (1943).
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Greek PM faces no-confidence vote in Parliament
Greek officials predict Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will survive a no-confidence vote in parliament later
Greek PM Tsipras faces confidence vote after minister quits
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Sunday he will ask for a vote of confidence
