Greek government-debt crisis

Venizelos congratulates Prokopis Pavlopoulos on his Presidential election

With an announcement, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos congratulated the newly elected President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

"According to the announcement Mr. Venizelos stated that: "I warmly congratulate Mr. Prokopis Pavlopoulos on his election. I am certain that he will exercise his constitutional duties in the best possible way".

Kammenos makes media threat, compares euro talks to resistance against Ottomans

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos drew parallels on Wednesday between Greece?s negotiations with the eurozone and Greeks? resistance to Ottoman occupiers more than two centuries ago.

The leader of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks also made a provocative comment regarding Skai TV.

Yanis confirms: Uncle Sam says no deal would hurt Greece

Greek FinMin Yanis Varoufakis on Wednesday confirmed that he has indeed received advise on the ongoing Greece-Eurozone showdown from none other than US Treasury Secretary Jacok Lew.

A relevant Tweet appeared on Varoufakis’ personal Twitter account.

Athens will, by all accounts, request a loan agreement “extension” on Thursday from it eurozone creditors.

DIMAR leader resurfaces, cites support for govt negotiations

PM Alexis Tsipras spoke by phone with the leader of the now out-of-Parliament Democratic Left (DI.MAR) party on Wednesday, with the latter reportedly expressing his support for the government's negotiations at the eurozone level.

According to a statement by DIMAR, Tsipras briefed DI.MAR leader Fotis Kouvelis on the government's proposal for a six-month extension of a loan agreement.

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