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Creditors also bear responsibility as they turned a blind eye to the debt problem and believed that austerity could remedy the ills of a country with the peculiarities of Greece.

Investment remains stuck at its lowest level and the economy is not taking off. It is unable to transcend the cycle and culture of pervasive pessimism, as if something is binding and immobilising it.

Tsipras and Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos called on Turkish authorities to approve the re-opening of the historic institution which for generations was the training ground for priests and patriarchs.

Peace is not built on hasty visits. It is even more difficult to build when the country effectively lacks a foreign minister (as the PM has assumed the portfolio).

Tsipras expressed heightened concern over dangerous military indidents in the Aegean and he underscored the importance of the direct line of communication with Erdogan.

The Greek judiciary, without probing the substance of the charges, ruled that the eight qualified for immunity as they could not be assured a fair trial in Turkey.

Andreas Papandreou is not remembered for crafting post-dictatorship politics, but rather because of the democratic achievements that it entailed, which were hardly a given at that time.

The Greek PM described his relationship with Erdogan as one of 'respect, honesty and directness' but noted that those ties were 'challenged in very difficult moments'.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has declared that not even one iota of parliamentary rules should be changed.

What will avert a repetition of the kinds of statements Mr. Erdogan made on his last visit to Greece, when he disputed even the Treaty of Lausanne?

This government systematically attempted to manipulate democratic institutions, including the judiciary.

According to Greek Parliamentary rules, for a political party to be recognised as a parliamentary group it must have five MPs elected on its ticket.

Might there be something else beyond their ideological kinship that links SYRIZA to the Maduros regime?

In 2018, the Open Society Foundation’s budget was approximately one billion dollars US, of which 81.7mn were earmarked for Europe

Gennimata expelled from the party the leader of the small, cooperating Democratic Left party, Thanasis Theocharopoulos.

'With the Prespa Agreement, Greece accepted the right of self-identification and that no one any longer can deny our right to be Macedonians who speak the Macedonian language in this land,' Zaev said

It is not merely political culture that mandates that a politician should not use unbecoming language or unleash threats.

'We are monitoring the situation and are obliged to be in a constant state of readiness,' said Cypriot Defence Minister Savvas Angelidis.

In order to persuade citizens that the realities are different from what they are experiencing, the government is handing out benefits and promises.

'International law makes it [the accord] difficult to change as it supersedes all domestic law. Any violation can bring international isolation and an International Court of Justice case against our country,' said New Democracy's leader.

How will the labour market absorb the wage hike? One would hope it will not be by reducing the number of jobs.

If there are no objections, the requisite protocol will be tabled in the parliaments of all member-states for ratification.

The hike comes into effect in February, and 24 benefits linked to the minimum wage will also increase by extension.

Naturally, this is a detail of the bigger map of Nato’s overall strategy with its known aggressive aims and with the main target in this period being Russia.

The Tsipras government along with those of Austria and Italy are the only ones who have lent support to the Maduro regime.

This chasm between the country’s name on the one hand and its ethnicity and language on the other leaves a bitter taste for almost all Greek citizens, as was evidenced in the recent rallies and opinion polls.

The agreement recognises that that country is inhabited by Macedonians and not North Macedonians and that they speak Macedonian and not a South Slavic language.

'This may become the beginning of new ills. Unfortunately, partisan bargains and SYRIZA’s cynicism prevailed over the national interest.'

There were 153 yeas, 146 nays, and one MP who declared himself present. The 145 MPs of ruling SYRIZA were joined by eight independent MPs and some from smaller parties.

Asked if they approve of the government “with all that you know and your experience with SYRIZA”, 71.4 percent said they were very or rather dissatisfied.

'That decision [not to admit FYROM to Nato] offered our country an exceptionally effective negotiating advantage which unfortunately was not exploited as is should have been,the ex-PM's statement read.

“Today they sent me a video which unfortunately we didn’t have the time to screen. It is characteristic and very humorous and concerns the government and what it was saying before being elected about the port of Piraeus, and how it did the opposite.”

The ruling party revealed to MPs for the first time that the amendments to the Constitution of FYROM will come into effect only after the Greek Parliament ratifies the protocol on FYROM’s admission to Nato.