Euclid Tsakalotos
What Mitsotakis can bring, what Tsipras could not understand
By all accounts the Mitsotakis administration had the best start of any Greek government in recent decades.
From the very beginning it acted swiftly and decisively, exploiting the positive expectations that were cultivated during the electoral campaign.
The prime minister is already making his mark through laborious nationwide efforts.
Varoufakis lashes out at SYRIZA 'comrades'
MeRA25 chief Yanis Varoufakis accused the former SYRIZA administration of imposing Greece's "harshest memorandum," saying that any members of the now-opposition party who take to the streets in protest at the new government would be "comical."
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Tsakalotos says election has resulted in a ‘big win’ for ND
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos says the conservative opposition New Democracy party has won the general election.
Tsakalotos spoke after exit polls for Sunday's election showed the governing left-wing SYRIZA trailing its main rivals by a significant margin.
Greek PM in last-ditch effort to stave off Sunday vote defeat
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on July 5 warned that the country risks a return to the "dark days" of austerity if his party loses a snap election on July 7.
Main opposition's tax cut plans are too costly, minister says before vote
Plans from Greece's opposition for tax cuts could derail the country's fiscal strategy, its deputy finance minister said on Friday, two days before an election that polls show the opposition is likely to win.
Greek PM engages in self-criticism before elections
In a wide-ranging interview with Skai Television Tuesday night, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras engaged in broad self-criticism while holding up Greece's exit from the international bailouts and its contentious name deal with North Macedonia as his administration's two key achievements.
SYRIZA raises spectre of a New Democracy neo-liberal restoration
By George Gilson
As it enters the last stretch of the campaign in a general election that all polls indicate it will lose, SYRIZA's main strategy is to depict New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his party as a force that will bring a restoration of neo-liberal austerity policies.
Editorial: Mr. Varoufakis was your pick, Mr. Tsipras
In early January, 2015, when there were rumours that Yanis Varoufakis would be tapped as (what by all appearances would be) the incoming SYRIZA government, Alexis Tsipras received warnings from various quarters that it would be a wrong-headed choice.
Former Independent Greeks official to run on SYRIZA ticket
Terence Quick, the former deputy minister of state with Independent Greeks during the nationalist party's coalition with ruling SYRIZA will be running in next month's snap elections with the incumbent leftists.
According to an announcement from SYRIZA, the ex-television journalist will be running for a seat in Parliament representing Athens' northern constituency.
Greece is off Eurogroup agenda
The next government in Greece will be the one to offer the necessary explanations to the Eurogroup about the outgoing administration's handouts, which appear to be leading the country toward a fiscal derailment and target shortfalls.
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