Showing posts with label Alexis Tsipras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexis Tsipras. Show all posts
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Alexis Tsipras and Syriza consolidate power in Greece without the anti-austerity rebels

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At this hour with 75% of the vote counted, Alexis Tsipras and Syriza are set to return to power and head the Greek government for the ne...
Friday, September 11, 2015

With nine days to go before Greek elections, Syriza recaptures the lead in the latest ProRata poll

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The latest Greek election poll result appears here today, showing left wing Syriza back on top with 28.5% of the vote and center right ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Syriza youth wing declines to support Alexis Tsipras and Syriza in upcoming election

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That could well signal it's already curtains for Syriza with less than three weeks to go to new elections. From the story here at...
Friday, August 28, 2015

The biggest bloc of voters is undecided in the upcoming September Greek election according to a new poll

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Reuters reports here : Syriza was supported by 23 percent of those polled, with the conservative New Democracy party second on 19.5 ...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

In Greece the popular PM Alexis Tsipras resigned last week in order to consolidate his power

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Alexis Tsipras, Greece's hope peddler Most reports put the resignation of Alexis Tsipras last week down to an act of desperation d...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has resigned today

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Blow by blow coverage is provided in the UK by the Telegraph here and the Guardian here . The next two largest political parties have...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Greeks pass third draconian austerity/bailout package 222 to 64 with 11 abstentions

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Looks like Alexis Tsipras' Syriza MPs defected in a big way: 32 No votes this time with 11 abstentions and 1 absent. This could prove ...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras proves once again he's a stand up guy, says he directed Yanis Varoufakis to develop Plan B

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The Telegraph reports here : 'This morning, Alexis Tsipras has come out in defence of Yanis Varoufakis. The PM has spoken about ...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Someone gets to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: On the weekend Schauble was a devil, but now he's a misunderstood genius!

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard erupted on Twitter on the weekend when Schauble leaked the Grexit memo in Brussels: Now Schau...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Greeks accept EuroGroup humiliation in overwhelming vote of degradation

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If the Left can't bring itself to revolt against the Fascist hegemony, there is no question that the Right can, either. Just six...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

IMF signals that it cannot now participate in the third bailout of Greece

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Here , which The Guardian considers a "cannonball" shot into the bailout: Greece’s debt can now only be made sustainable th...

Whatever you may think of Alexis Tsipras, tonight's interview showed him a true leader of Greece and an adept politician

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The Grauniad is predictably impressed, here , but for many good reasons: "Even if you think Alexis Tsipras has misplayed the cr...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Greece left in a permanent debt trap under neo-colonial rule after historic weekend showdown in Brussels

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, here : The crushed Syriza leader [Alexis Tsipras] must sell a settlement that leaves Greece in a permanent de...

In 1967 the Greek coup d'etat was by the tanks, in 2015 by the banks

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Yanis Varoufakis, audio here , says Tsipras felt defeated by the "No" in the referendum: "In the [1967] coup d’état t...

Alexis Tsipras sought out the help of Yanis Varoufakis starting in 2010, but never fully agreed with him

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Varoufakis' plan, as outlined here in an interview in The New Statesman, was never embraced by Syriza as it needed to be to have even...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

So what Bernard-Henri Levy and the EU really want is to tax the bejeebers out of Greek capital and the Greek church

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BHL with celebrated child rapist Venting his deconstructionist spleen, here : Mr. Tsipras might defend his approach to the referen...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Germany blinks: Greeks win time, funding and an end to previous austerity agreements

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Reported here : Mr Tsipras added the extension would finally put an end to the "asphyxiation" Greece has suffered since 2012...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Boris Johnson, The Only Man Talking Sense In Britain

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Hell, he's the only man talking sense in Europe, except for that hippie in Sweden, Anders Borg. Alexis Tsipras, call your office. From t...