Tsipras heads to White House

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras insisted Monday, on the eve of his meeting in Washington with US President Donald Trump, that Greece is bouncing back after seven years of a protracted financial crisis and is strengthening its geostrategic role in the region.

Speaking at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Tsipras said Greece has "returned" and now is the time to further strengthen Greek-American relations through US investments in Greece in tourism, real estate, energy, infrastructure, new technologies and agriculture.

Stressing that Greece is coming out of the woods, Tsipras said that the economy grew by 2 percent in 2017. Greece, he said, has met its primary surplus targets in the last two years and will do the same this year. He added that it was also time that Washington recognized that Greece can be a bastion of stability - on the condition that security concerns...