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Parliament's Ethics Committee on Tuesday rejected - with a majority of seven to five - a request for Defense Minister Panos Kammenos to answer to slander accusations.

Parliament's Ethics Committee on Tuesday rejected with a majority of seven to five made up of lawmakers from ruling partners SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) a request for Defense Minister Panos Kammenos to answer to slander accusations.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Monday was to start briefing party leaders on the progress of his talks in Vienna last week with his counterpart from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Dimitrov, on ongoing United-Nations mediated talks on the "Macedonia" name issue.

With the coalition riven by divisions and the government's narrative that Greece is back on track being compromised by a series of crises, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is reportedly looking for new allies from the center-left.

The leader of the new center-left Movement for Change, Fofi Gennimata (second from left), and other key players attend the party's inaugural conference in Athens on Friday.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to meet on Saturday with the leaders of the main opposition parties to inform them about the discussions with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) over the name issue, although there is growing tension within his own coalition about the matter. 

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt snaps a selfie at the Jewish Museum in Thessaloniki on Wednesday on the occasion of Museum Selfie Day. Museum selfies are being increasingly embraced by museums across the world. For the third year Greece's Benaki Museum is actively promoting the trend.

Launching the conservative party's 11th two-day conference on Saturday, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis appealed to party officials and supporters to join forces in order to "change Greece" and "get rid of the worst government of the post-dictatorship era."

The name itself, Movement for Change, is a tacit reference to the past but also appears to aim at the future. From a public relations perspective the name gives the impression that it could serve as an umbrella for different forces - but only time will tell if it will.

Greece's new center-left grouping, Movement for Change, has unveiled its political council, which is the first element of the new party's structure and its key decision-making body.