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Right-wing anti-austerity Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos told private ANT1 television that he does not agree with the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government's stand on giving second generation immigrants citizenship. "We are, as Independent Greeks, a parliamentary group of 13 deputies and vote according to the principles by which we were voted in Parliament.

Strangely enough for many observers, the leftist SYRIZA party and its leader, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, did not stop surprising its European partners after ascending to power in Greece. But how should this rhetoric be interpreted?

"I could not have expected this. That little boy! And now, he is the leader of Greece!" The old man struggled to hold back his tears, in vain. He had to wipe his eyes with his hand.  Over forty close and distant relatives carrying the same surname as the new prime minister of Greece live in the village of Athamanio, eight hundred meters up on the Tzoumerka Mountains in the Epirus region.

A local newspaper in Turkey?s Thracian province of Edirne has reported that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras? family was originally from the nearby town of K?rklareli.

European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz criticised on Wednesday the newly-elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of splitting the common European Union (EU) stance on Russia.

Tsipras's radical left party SYRIZA won the early parliamentary elections in Greece on Sunday and established a coalition government with the right-wing Independent Greeks.

Greece named hardline leftwing economist Yanis Varoufakis as finance minister Jan. 27, handing him the pivotal task of renegotiating the debt-stricken nation's bailout with international creditors after it voted overwhelmingly to reject years of austerity politics.
      

What Serbian politicians think about election results in Greece Vulin: Syriza and Tsipras are Serbian friends

New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Party Syriza are great friends of Serbia, says Aleksandar Vulin, Minister of Labour in Serbian government.

"Unrealistic to expect Greece to repay debt"

ATHENS -- It is "unrealistic to expect Greece to repay its huge debt in full," Euclid Tsakalotos, the chief economics spokesman for Syriza has told the BBC.

 Greece's new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to unveil his anti-austerity coalition government Tuesday, bringing together his radical left-wing party with the nationalist right, after a stunning election win that sent shockwaves through Europe.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has been sworn in as Greece's next prime minister by President Karolos Papoulias.

The 40-year-old leader of SYRIZA became Greece's youngest prime minister since 1865.

Tsipras only took a political oath and refused to be sworn in by the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, Archbishop Ieronymos.