Syriza

Greece’s negotiating team is meeting at Maximos Mansion at 2 p.m. on Monday.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is currently meeting with the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Economics Spokesman Euclid Tsakalotos, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Nikos Vroutsis in Parliament.

Talks between Greece and its international creditors (European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) ended in failure on Sunday, sending Greece stumbling closer towards a Grexit. Greece and creditors have been negotiating for months on reforms needed to release 7.2 billion euros in bailout aid benchmarked for Greece.

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Citizen Protection Minister John Panousis and Culture, Education and Religious Affairs Minister Aristidis Baltas signed a political decree to recruit a cleric to the Greek Police Force (ELAS). The position requires someone who is under the age of 40, a Theological School graduate, and ordained in the Greek Orthodox Church.

With a leftist-based government in power since January, the results of last Sunday's general elections in Turkey were seen in Greece largely as a victory for democracy and a defeat of autocracy. 

Opposition leaders reacted to Sunday’s abrupt end of negotiations in Brussels between the Greek government and creditors, with New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras referring to a “threat” entailed with a Eurozone exit and a return to a national currency.

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” could sum up the leftist SYRIZA government’s intent to rehire a few thousand people to “restock” the civil service or wider public sector entities, from cleaners to vocation school instructors, and from school guards and administrative staff at Greece’s numerous and scattered universities.

 There is no time for the thorough deal Athens wanted, with debt restructuring and a major investment plan

By Dimitris Kontogiannis

By Nikitas Konstantinidis*

In a bid to earn support from opposition parties as well as coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), leftist ruling SYRIZA intends to tweak its citizenship bill by placing one of the provisions into a separate article.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is said to have sent a message to his MPs on Saturday to forget the idea of snap elections or a referendum if his government is able to secure a ?viable agreement? with Greece?s lenders.