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The film has been dismissed outright and its director, Costa-Gavras, until recently hailed as one of Greece's top filmmakers, is suddenly being accused by some of getting carried away. Why?

The center-right government on Friday approved in Parliament changes to the criteria for appointing the director of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) - a move aimed at ensuring that the official undertaking the role has adequate professional experience but which provoked angry protests by the opposition.

A government bill outlining a series of tax reductions is to be voted on in Greece's Parliament on Tuesday and is expected to secure approval with the votes of center-right New Democracy, leftist SYRIZA and the center-left Movement for Change (KINAL).

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."

The government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis won a confidence vote (158 to 142) in Parliament on Monday after a three-day debate on his administration's policy statements.

Speaking ahead of the vote, Mitsotakis said his government will "not defeat people's expectations" and vowed to do everything in his power to improve people's lives.

Yanis Varoufakis, the leader of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) and former finance minister, urged Greeks to vote in the general elections on Sunday, saying it is the only way to defend democracy.

With Sunday's election just days away, ruling SYRIZA and opposition New Democracy have embarked on a strategy to ensure that the country's smaller parties come up short and do not deny them crucial votes.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' success in unblocking relations with North Macedonia and clinching the Prespes accord showed statesmanship, the head of the German Parliament Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an article in newspaper Die Zeit, published on Wednesday.

If Mr. Tsipras' aim in his television interview yesterday was as he had announced to triumph over his opponents, he appears to have failed.

What stood out was a constant apologia for his own and for his government's works and days.

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.