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In his first interview since the July elections that led to the fall of his leftist administration, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras accused the new conservative government of enforcing irresponsible policies and "spending ready money."

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday urged his SYRIZA party to regroup and heed the message of voters ahead of snap national elections he called after a resounding defeat from opposition conservatives in European Parliament elections.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras landed in the North Macedonia capital of Skopje on Tuesday for a what is the first visit by a Greek premier to the Balkan nation since its independence in 1991.

Defined as a "historic" occasion by his office, Tsipras's visit is expected to bolster ties between the two neighbors who recently resolved a decades-old name dispute.

Macedonia's Foreign Ministry on Monday said it has received "assurance" from Greece that the government of Alexis Tsipras, which faces a confidence vote this week, will push through ratification of the historic "name" agreement in parliament.

Amid rising tensions within the government over the contentious Prespes name deal, conservative New Democracy on Monday hit out at both Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his coalition partner Panos Kammenos, who opposes the deal Tsipras's government signed, accusing them of destabilizing the country.

The state will push ahead with the immediate demolition of 3,200 illegal structures in Attica that the courts have already slated for removal, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed willingness to conclude a deal with Berlin to return migrants seeking asylum from Germany. He said this in an interview with the Financial Times, quoted by the TASS agency.

The prime ministers of Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) faced political storms at home Thursday, two days after reaching a historic deal to settle a decades-old dispute over the latter's name.

Ahead of next week's visit by Greece's creditors to Athens, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has repeated the call he made to his ministers at Easter to pull their socks up and accelerate the process to wrap up the pending prior actions of the Greek bailout program.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke with Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim who called to express his condolences and those of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the death of the Greek fighter jet pilot whose plane crashed into the sea in the central Aegean earlier on Thursday.