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Bailout review differences feed speculation about Tsipras turning to elections Speculation is growing in Greece about the possibility that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras might resort to snap elections if he is not able to secure the kind of agreement that he wants with lenders as part of the first bailout review.
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Hope of economic, trade benefits drive Tsipras's landmark visit to Iran Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has become the first European leader to visit Iran since the lifting of trade sanctions against Tehran, underlining Athens’s determination to become a link between the Middle East country and the EU.
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Tsipras caught between social tension and lenders' pressure as talks begin The Greek government is due to begin talks in Athens with the chief representatives of its lenders on Monday afternoon, in what is promising to be an extremely testing round of negotiations.
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SYRIZA under fire for TV permit tender, tinkering with watchdog The government has come in for criticism again from the opposition parties for allegedly trying to establish control over key public positions, as well as a tender for broadcasting licenses.
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Pension reform a precarious battleground for Tsipras and Mitsotakis Pension reform provided the first battleground for Alexis Tsipras and Kyriakos Mitsotakis to clash on since the latter became New Democracy leader.
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised The refugee crisis is threatening to rock the Greek government at the same time that it is involved in delicately-poised discussions with its lenders about pension reform and other measures needed to conclude the first review of the current bailout.
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Sobering reality overshadows SYRIZA's one-year anniversary Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras begins his efforts to dampen the opposition to the government’s pension reform plans on Monday, as SYRIZA marks one year of being in power.
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PoliticsGreek Politics![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/06/tsipras_1000_myrto_0511-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
A year on, Tsipras's SYRIZA in need of morale boost Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras returns from a series of meetings at the World Economic Forum in Davos to give perhaps one of the most important speeches of his career on Sunday.
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Challenges mount for Tsipras as pension reform leads into make or break period Growing protests against pension reform plans, the election of Kyriakos Mitsotakis as New Democracy leader and a tough few weeks of negotiations ahead between the government and Greece’s lenders are all having an impact on the Greek political landscape.
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Mitsotakis targets Tsipras, floating voters and populists in first speech to his MPs New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke to his MPs for the first time on Thursday, setting out his immediate priorities as the party’s new president.