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Tsipras survives no-confidence vote
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras barely survived a no-confidence vote in parliament Wednesday, 151 to 148. “I call upon you
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
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 Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras barely survived a no-confidence vote in parliament Wednesday, 151 to 148.
“I call upon you with hand on heart to give a vote of confidence today to the government which gave battle, which bled, but managed to haul the country out of memorandums and surveillance,” Tsipras asked the lawmakers before the vote.
He was apparently referring to the economic bailouts Greece needed over the past decade to avoid bankruptcy and economic ruin.
Tsipras himself called for the no-confidence vote after Defense Minister Panos Kammenos resigned and pulled his nationalist ANEL Party from the ruling coalition.
Kammenos quit to protest the U.N.-brokered deal with FYR Macedonia, ending a nearly 30-year-long dispute over who gets to use the name Macedonia.
If approved by the Greek parliament, the former Yugoslav republic would be officially called the Republic of North Macedonia.
Kammenos appealed to Tsipras Wednesday to put the name change question before voters…
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 20
- 1930: The Greek National Football Team recorded their first ever win against Yugoslavia 2-1 (Giorgos Andrianopoulos, Dinos Andrianopoulos)
- 1962: The official results of the 1961 Census were released - the population of Greece numbered 8,388,553 people.
- 1982: The first Greek test-tube baby - Christina Iordanidou - was born.
- Deaths: Yiannis Skarimbas, writer (1984), Dora Stratou, choreographer (1988), Sir John Harding, former military governor of Cyprus (1989)
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Tsipras survives no-confidence vote
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras barely survived a no-confidence vote in parliament Wednesday, 151 to
Greek PM faces no-confidence vote in Parliament
Greek officials predict Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will survive a no-confidence vote in parliament later
