Greece

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos had a phone conversation with European Council President Donal Tusk on the critical issue of the migrant crisis, Tuesday. Tusk was in transit at the Athens International Airport ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’ when the Greek President requested he intervene to summon an extraordinary EU Summit as soon as possible.

A serious side effect of the waves of refugees and migrants entering Greece is the negative impact on the Greek economy, and more specifically on its tourist industry, at a time when the austerity-stricken country is in dire need of revenue.

Yanis Varoufakis and another 18 economists signed an open letter asking for the support of Europe on the Greek debt relief issue which will be discussed at the United Nations General Ass

Greece’s natural beauty, its rivers, mountains and seas, are at the center of a campaign on indiegogo.com titled #SaveGreekNature.

The campaign is organized by WWF Greece and invites people to participate to help WWC to fight for Greece’s future, Greek nature.

// 19 parties and 5 coalition groups have registered to participate in the upcoming September 20 elections. The 1st Section of the Supreme Court is expected to decide on which parties will take part in the coming elections.

The 19 parties and their leaders are:

1) Radical Left Coalition SYRIZA (Alexis Tsipras)

Fresh clashes erupted between police and migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos on Sept.7 night, which authorities said was "on the verge of explosion," as Britain and France pledged to accept tens of thousands more refugees from the record influx.

Greece’s former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, who lives in a humble working-class flat with Betty and his two sons, spent summer on an isolated island known as Ereikoussa or at least that’s the publicised part of his vacation that the public were privy to.

Conservative New Democracy party leader Evangelos Meimarakis was “liberal” in his disparagement of his main rival Alexis Tsipras on Monday evening, speaking during a late-night current affairs program, and days after a smattering of opinion polls have him catching up with radical leftist or even enjoying a very slim lead.

On the increasingly biting election front, former SYRIZA minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, the head of the leftist breakaway party Popular Unity, was scathing in his criticism of resigned PM Alexis Tsipras on Monday, charging that the latter erroneously believed the coming snap election would be a “cake walk”.

Resigned prime minister Alexis Tsipras held at press conference on Monday from the same city where last year he unveiled his now infamous …Thessaloniki program — boosting social spending, state investments and scrapping the memorandum — although this year’s agenda was predictably dominated by his seven months in power and the third memorandum he negotiated and signed.