Syriza

A Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) cabinet meeting assessing the plight of Greek negotiations with the country’s international creditors took place on Tuesday.

The Eurogroup statement on Greece was positively worded but there was restraint between the lines. The Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government has now turned its attention to new initiatives so that a conclusive agreement with EU partners can be reached.

By Pantelis Boukalas

Opa! A street party by dozens of previously fired, and now rehired cleaners attached to Greece’s finance ministry took place outside the building in central Athens on Monday night.

The Church of Greece and SYRIZA?s parliamentary group representative, Nikos Filis, clashed on Monday after the latter complained about the use of a relic of Saint Barbara, one of the most venerated saints in the Orthodox Church, which was brought to Greece over the weekend.

The German-Greek Business Association (DHW) on Monday expressed worries over reported planned tax hikes by the SYRIZA led-government, especially after recent statistics pointing to a 25 percent decline in tourism bookings from Germany.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble raised the prospect Monday of Greece holding a referendum on its EU-IMF bailout, saying it could finally resolve the drawn-out crisis.

Schaeuble's comments came ahead of the latest meeting of eurozone finance ministers aimed at thrashing out a deal with Greece's new leftist government.

Euro are finance ministers will meet in Brussels at 4 p.m. on Monday with a focus on the general situation of the Greek economy followed by a discussion on Greece. Recent talks have been constructive even though an agreement to unlock the 7.2 billion euros benchmarked for Greece is not expected at Monday’s meeting.

One of the leading questions that has dominated the political and media discourse of Greece is: who is Alexis Tsipras? 

Most Greeks want the government to reach a compromise with its creditors while public support for the method of negotiation being pursued is waning, a new opinion poll shows.