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Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos After pension dispute with lenders, coalition faces domestic unease

Opposition parties pressed the government on Tuesday to make public the letter sent by Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos to the institutions to smooth over the row that broke out after the government decided to grant pensioners a 617-million-euro Christmas bonus from the excess surplus produced in 2016.

Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos Tsipras mixes rhetoric as review conclusion demands political decisions

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras continued to issue mixed messages on Wednesday: On the one hand, he defended his decision on the pension bonus despite his government frantic efforts to avoid this delaying short term debt relief, while on the other he insisted that the review could be concluded by the end of January and that talk of snap elections is “nonsense.”

Photo by Andrea Bonetti/Fosphotos Tsipras wins domestic support for pension bonus but key struggles lie abroad

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras heads for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Friday boosted by broad support in Greek Parliament for his controversial pledge for a Christmas bonus to 1.6 million pensioners and knowing that he has put main opposition party New Democracy in a tricky position.

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